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TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAT 30. MOJ). 13 Tim Omaiia Sunday hm FOUNDED BT EDWARD UoflEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Kntrred at Omaha postofflee as second class mstter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), one year..M.0 Dally Hee and Sunday one year 8 00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week. 15c Daily Hce (without Sunday), per week.. 10c Kvenlng Hee (without Sunday), per wek. 6c Evening Hee (with Sunday), per week.. inc Sunday Hi e, one year 12 50 Saturday Bee, one year 11.60 Address all complain! of Irregularities in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Ben Building-. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs 15 Scott Street. Lincoln 61X Little Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Hulldlng. New York-Rooma 1101-1102 No. M Weet Thirty-third street. Washington 726 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eaatern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. 8tnt of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: George. B. Tsschurk, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of April, Uu3, was as follows: i n,aeo it 41,030 89,060 16 87,130 39,490 It 40,330 37,500 SO 40,630 41,300 1 40,410 40,340 S3 40,440 T 41,800 21 40,380 41,400 14 40,340 41,380 26 42,450 41,400 zt 48380 H 37,300 27 48,690 1 41,300 38 44,360 41.440 !.,. 43,300 " . 40,330 SO.. 43,300 II 40.300 , 14 40,880 Total.. 1.333,410 Returned copies) 1M03 Net total.;..., M38,aOT Daily average 40,8)40 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. . Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 1st day of May, 1909. M, P. WALKER, Notary Public, WHEN OUT OP TOWN. Subscribers leaving; the city tem porarily sheald have The Bee mailed to them. Address will be . rhaaged often as requested. Evidently the black hand is not ap preciated on the Georgia locomotive. Plenty of Are In the PreBbyterlan assembly If It did declare against smoking. The language of flowers is the only language with which we may speak to the dead. - The latest Wall street item la that J. P. Morgan has declined to finance the fertilizer truBt Too rank? A Dubuque man has just become the father of his twenty-third child. It remains to be seen whether there is any significance in the number. The startling discovery is chronicled that people In Des Moines are mort gaging their homes to buy automobiles. It takes a fast automobile to outrun a mortgage. A New York man proposes to keep up the balance of trade by marrying a European baroness. As she. cannot endow him with her title she should of right be wealthy. ' Three hundred have been killed at Amoy, China, In a .fight over a stolen bride, Those Chinese. may rival the rpcord detailed In Homer's great eplo if they are not headed off. The men who helped to save the union and still survive have at best only a few :.ars to be with us and we should make the most 6t the time to show them the respect due to their patriot Ism. Speaker Cannon holds the weather responsible for delay in passing the tariff bill. He thinks a temperature of 06 in the shade would hurry the senate. This backward spring cer tainly has much to answer for. One of the most animated discus sions now engaging the scientific world is regarding the age of the world. As Mother Earth refuses to tell everybody has the privilege of guessing as often as he wishes. The governor of Wisconsin has vetoed the bill making swearing a crime. It came to him late In the ses sion and the governor evidently feared the legislators might want to Indulge themselves. An Arkansas delegate to the Pres byterian assembly corrected the chair man for his pronunciation of th name of the state. A man who will live In Arkansas Is entitled to have It pro nounced any way he pleases. The French marine scandals are de veloping large proportions. Along with the demonstration that graft Is not confined to any on country, they furnish the proof that higher Ideals of official responsibility are also spread ing aoross nationality lines. A Washington man who went up to the treasury and said be wanted a mil lion dollars wag sent to the Insane asy lum. . If every man who wants a mil lion dollars Is to be sent to the asylum the work of building additions to those Institutions should not be delayed. Tho dean of Westminster cathedral must be glveu credit for a measure of astuteness at least. He refused to say why he refused to permit the burial of George Meredith In the cathedral. He might have started a debate as inter minable as the Bacon-Shakespeare con trOTersy . Memorial Day. The line of blue, one 2,000,000 strong, Is disappearing with the pass ing years, and the present Memorial day finds it but a scant remnant of the once magnificent army. The veter an's step Is no longer elastic nor his eye so bright, but his never-falling pa triotism lives again in another genera tion, which has learned the lesson of Memorial day In Its deeper sig nificance. The veteran who survives has seen the culmination of the struggles and privations of those strenuous years of civil warfare. When Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox the political re union of the country was accomplished, but the bitterness of the strife was too closo to make the union more than form. Time has healed the wounds and hidden the scars of four years of fierce and sanguinary strife between brothers and the hopes and aspirations of the man in blue have found full fruition In a country united in spirit, sympathy and brotherhood, with com mon alma and common hopes. Memorial day's tribute to the soldier dead and praise for the llvlne does credit to their descendants, but it 1b a poor homage to the veteran which loses sight of the real object of the ob servance, the inculcation of the lesson of a patriotism which Is willing to sac rifice as they did. We can honor them best by perpetuating the union, teach ing the supremacy of law, aiding in the uplift of humanity and making and keeping this country, in fact, the land of the free, where the rights and liber ties of all are respected and preserved. Such a country will never lack for de fenders no matter what the foe. Morals in Business. During the current year the senior class of Sheffield Scientific school at Yale has listened to a series of six lec tures on "Morals In Modern Business," delivered by practical business men of large experience, and now printed In book form. These lectures deal with various aspects of the subject, the progress that has been made In apply ing ethical principles to business, the treatment of employes and of custo mers, the uses and abuses of competi tion, the necessity of credit and confi dence, public service business and the relation of corporations and trusts to business. The fact that such a course should be established and supported In an Institution devoted to liberal ed ucation Is in Itself evidence of salutary Interest in the subject, and the view taken by the speakers is, on the whole, one of hopeful progress toward higher standards. More and more In theory and more slowly in practice It Is becoming recog nized that moral principle applies as fully to conduct In business as in other relations among men and is as neces sary to soundness and permanency; and this Implies due regard to the rights and interests of individuals, communities and classes. The senti ment has found voice in the laws reg ulating the railroads, the antt-truBt laws, the pure food regulations and various statutes to hold In check those whose lack of moral principle leads them to use power to impose unjust burdens upon their fellow men. Labor unions and trade organizations are a forceful protest, In their Inception at least, against the unfair dealing which ignores the moral standards. The growing tendency to frown upon men who conduct business by unfair means is a corrective movement, and that It has drawn to Itself many of the strong and intelligent, as well as the weak and Ignorant, is an omen of real striv ing for a higher plane. States' Eights Again. While Mr. Bryan seems to have sub sided with his proposal to make the federal government refuse to collect In internal revenue taxes on the sale of liquor In territory which Is voted dry, Edgar Howard comes back to defend It with a composite of contradictions and confusions that make the case worse Instead of better. Admitting that the point is well taken that the federal government does not and cannot "license" the selling of liquor any where except in the District of Colum bia and territories directly subject to congress. Judge Howard sidesteps by saying, "No one claims that the na tional government issues licenses to sell liquor." Just read over again Mr. Bryan's letter to the Florida legisla ture, in which he distinctly and delib erately speaks about the government discontinuing "the Issue of licenses for the Bale of liquor." Making this vital concession, how ever. Judge Howard goes on to declare that "we oppose the issue of liquor permits in dry territory by the national government on the same ground that we oppose the issue of injunctions against state laws by federal courts." It will take a Phila delphia lawyer to find any re semblance here. Wherever the fed eral courts Issue injunctions against state laws they prohibit the state offi cials from enforcing the state laws, while lu the case of the collection of internal revenue taxes on liquor selling the federal government not only leaves the state and local officials free to en force their lawg and regulations, but makes a record which they can use for that purpose if they want to. Judge Howard says that "all we are asking is that the national government keep hands off and let the people of a state, town or c" -nty manage their own affairs." If the federal govern ment should refuse to collect taxes on liquor selling In dry territory and to punish Infraction of the revenue laws by those who sell In defiance it would be doing exactly what Edgar Howard Is protesting against in a word,- the federal government would be enforcing the local laws and supplanting the state and local authorities In the exer cise of the police power. It the federal government should undertake In this manner to make state and local laws effective there would be no good reason for drawing the line at laws prohibiting the sale of liquor. As we have already said, the federal government could with equal propriety enforce local laws against the sale of cigarettes, cocaine, firearms or any other objectionable transaction, and even follow it up by enforcing the election laws in the southern states, Lwhere the rights of American citizen ship are constantly denied. When the federal government does all these things the old democratic Idea of states' rights will have become merely a tradition and a remembrance. Speeding Up. This has been called an age of labor-saving machinery. It might more properly be called a time-saving age. The many Inventions which save labor have for their object greater Bpeed fully as much, if not moro, than the saving of labor. The railroads spend millions in equipment to reduce the running time. Large sums are ex pended to build ocean steamers to clip a few hours from the number required In crossing the ocean and people pay handsomely for tho privilege of riding on the faster boats. Buildings which formerly required years to erect are now completed and occupied in months. In all lines of human endeavor this speed goal Is manifest. It Is not alone the man whose business is urgent who takes the fast trains and the fast boats. They are sought Just as eagerly by those on pleasure bent, with whom time 1b no object except the consuming desire for speed. It is the same way with our sports. The ball magnates at the close of every season meet and seek to devise means of cutting a few minutes from the time required to play a game. The automobile Is sup planting the horse as a pleasure ve hicle chiefly for the reason that it re sponds to the speed mania. Can the pace be continuously quick ened? The question is not new, but rather as old as the time when man trained the dumb beasts to his use or hoisted a sail to expedite the slower oars. The developments of speed have been more rapid In recent years than ever before and the speed limit must some time be reached, but just at pres ent there are no signs of more than temporary let up. Court Decisions as Political Issues. In an Interesting article contributed to McClure's Magazine, President Taft reviews the attempt In the last presi dential campaign to make a political issue out of his judicial decisions. "I believe it Is true," says he, "that I am the only successful candidate for the presidency who ever had extended ju dicial experience." He recalls that while Martin Van Buren bad been a probate judge and Andrew Jackson had served as judge of tho supreme court of North Carolina, their work on the bench never entered into their campaigns. Judge Parker had been on the bench, but his judicial decisions were not involved In his candidacy. The supreme court ruling on the "In come tax" was one of the minor issues In 1896, but In no way personal to tho candidates. After citing these In stances, Mr. Taft ventures to assert that his experience In being called upon to go upon the stump to explain or defend his decisions has been truly exceptional. The main portion of Mr. Taft's arti cle Is taken up with a recital of the circumstances leading to the formula tion of the labor and injunction planks In the platforms of the respective parties and a concise exposition of the facts in the various labor cases, which he decided as judge, and the scope and significance of those decisions. The explanation of the decisions Is sub stantially the same as he made during tho campaign in his political ad dresses. Mr, .Taft Is convinced that the failure of the movement headed by Mr. Gompers to carry with It the large mass of the laboring vote is due to his attitude in squarely meeting the Issue. On this point he reasons as follows: I am, of course, not blind to the fact that one of the chief arguments In my favor with the wags earner wan the fear that the election of Mr. Bryan would make the hard times permanent, and the hope that the continuance of the republican party In power would Insure a return of good times. Still I think It must be con ceded that the showing made by Mr. Gom pers upon the issue against me as on enemy of labor was considerably less than he expected it to be, and that this was due, in part, at least, to the fact that no one can control the vote of the Intelligent laboring man; that he does not yield to mere sentiment or the calling of names, but that he, himself, Investigates the rea sons and makes up an Independent mind. President Taft Is also satisfied that he lost nothing by meeting the issue of trial by Jury In contempt cases and taking the position that the result of such a change In the law would be to put the means of evading court de crees Into the hands of the wealthy and unscrupulous without any corre sponding benefit to the poor and needy wage earner. On this he says: The appeal made to the merchant, farmer, business man and the publlo at large, Including the Intelligent wage earner, against the weakening of the power of the court in the Interest of a particular class was, If one can judge from the attitude of the audiences ad dressed, as strong and vote-gettli.g an argument as the republican party had In the lute campaign. According to information which came from close to Mr. Bryan, it is known that be rested most of bis con fidence in the expectation that the la bor vote would be delivered to him solidly as a rebuke to Judge Taft's labor decisions and that his campaign was made with a special view to hold ing the support of the wage-earning classes even at the risk of antagonis ing the business Interests. The com plete failure of this program, irre spective of the causeB, will, we take It, be the best assurance that the attempt will not again be made in the same way. French Unions and Politics. It was manifest at lta outbreak that the recent French postal strike was more of a political than a labor dis turbance. Now comes the admission of this fact from the labor unions themselves in the practical disruption of the old central organization. The announced reason for the split Is that labor men have discovered they were being used for political purposes when the objects of their organization were all for the economic betterment of their condition. The political divisions in France differ so greatly from those In the United States that there Is little room for comparison. Primarily there are republicans, monarchists, imperialists and socialists. Each in its turn Is divided Into groups lacking in cohe sion. The labor union membership of necessity includes some in each of these parties and groups, but consti tutes a majority of none except per haps the socialists. Under such condi tions it has proved disastrous to per mit the unions to be used to further the intrigues of either party, as such a policy aligned against them the solid Influence of all the others. Labor must at all times appeal to the popular sense of fairness as a matter of economlo Justice. It Is evi dently the realization of this that has impelled the labor organizations to break away from mere political lead ers. Nothing but the Impetuosity of the French could have led them Into such a controversy, but the saving quality of the nation is that the French pot ordinarily simmers down as rapidly as It boils over. Loyalty of the Foreign-Born. Never was there a more striking ex ample by foreign-born citizens of loy alty to their adopted country and ap preciation of the advantages it has offered to them than the movement now In progress among the Danes of the United States to return to their native land to attend a celebration on the Fourth of July at an exposition now being held in Copenhagen. Pa triotic songs, both of the fatherland and of the United States, are to be rendered and prominent speakers are to extol the blessings they have found in their new home. Every year the Fourth of July Is ap propriately celebrated .In foreign lands by Americans who happen to be abroad, but It Is unique for our natu ralised citizens to carry their celebra tion back to their native country. The Dane baa In all places and at all times been a good cltlsen and of a liberty loving race. It Is characteristic of him, having found that liberty, com bined with opportunity, for which he was seeking, that he should be ready to hold up the Stars and Stripes to the admiration of his countrymen back home. Incidentally the Dane, no less than our other foreign-born citizens, has set the native-born an example in patriotism and genuine love of country which is worthy of emulation. Those to the manor-born have no monopoly in patriotism and love for this com mon country of ours. The Meat Packing- Industry. Some figures compiled from returns made under the provisions of the Massachusetts state law for the first time give an approximate Idea of the colossal dimensions of the meat pack ing Industry. According to the re turns, which the meat packers have themselves made, the gross sales of their different products at all their plants of the five largest of them is, In round figures, as follows: Swift t2o0,000.000 Armour 240,000,000 Morris 110,000,000 National Packing 100,000.000 Cudahy 80,000,000 Total..., $T80,OU),000 The value of the total output of the combined meat packers is shown by comparison to be greater than the gross sales of the United States Steel corporation, which In Its biggest year, 1907, reached $757,000,000. While the amount of business done by the meat packers Is something stupendous, the percentage of profits turns on a small margin, best estimates making It not to exceed 3 per cent of the gross sales. These figures, so far as they refer to one well-known estab lishment, are corroborated by the ex hibits made In a recent statement of fering a bond Issue, which Is now be ing placed, although that statement showed that the volume of business for 1903 had shrunk quite a little from what it had been In the preced ing year of 1907. The meat packing industry comes directly home to the people of this sec tion of the west, because It takes the raw material of the farm and ranch and transforms It into a finished food product. It would be Interesting to know, If It could be ascertained, how much of the value of the packing house output of nearly 1800,000,000 a year is returned to the farmer and stock raiser and to what extent the latter have profited by the organiza tion of the meat slaughtering business at central stations where it can be most economically bandied. While the packers have developed a tremen dous Industry, they have likewise rev olutionized the live stock business at the same time and put It on an en tirely new and firmer basis. SERMONS BOILED DOWN. Appetite Is a poor exegesis on the com- tnandraenta. The honesty that advertises Itself Is usu ally for sale. Faith always means forsaking some seeming good. The good life Is known by something be side Its goods. Blessed are the boosters for they shall not need boosting. Those hearts are best guarded that are most open to others. Tou can never persuade others beyond your own convictions. Freedom means the right to a volun tary part In the good of all. Taking pleasures as they come Is happl ness; running after them Is mlBcry. Many put a thousand lives In danger rather than hurt the feelings of one. Where the life Is consumed in love's sacrifice the halo takes care of Itself. People who run after trouble always blame Providence when they catch It. Most men who start out to pay a flying visit to sin acquire the right to vote there, If this seems to be a heartless age the only thing to do Is to put your own heart Into It. There's a lot of difference between be lieving a thing and believing that you be Hove It. Many a man wrecks his ship because he spends all the time In the hold with his freight There are too many trying to prove their love for the good news by telling all the bad news. Many are willing to wear the Christian armor provided there Is nothing but a pa rade In sight Chicago Tribune. SECULAB SHOTS AT THE PULPIT Philadelphia Press: A Chicago pastor has declared that the husband should rule; but that the wife should control the spend ing of every penny of the family Income. The reverend social philosopher Is entitled to the privilege of the floor to explain wherein the husband's rule would consist If he absolutely abandoned the power of the purse. New York Tribune: "Quit boasting about Chloago or produce the goods," demanded Rev. William T. McElveen, pastor of the First Congregational church of Evanston at a dinner of the Chicago Congregational club. "We eecm to have plenty of gold," he said, "but only a pitiful 125,000 a year for missions. Convert Chicago and re juvenate the middle west. Bend our best workers to Sedgwick street, not to Bethle hem." Minneapolis Journal: It Is unfortunately true that even a good man may be an ass. Inspired by an overioalous religious en thusiasm, George W. Crabtree, a mission ary from Washington, V. C, armed him self with a paint pot and brush, and be smeared many rocks In tho canyons near Manttou, Colo., with religious maxims and precepts. The publlo indignation which followed the act brought forth a confos- slon from the evangelist, who declared his willingness to correct his error by removing the unsightly signs. Boston Herald: A committee of twenty representative clergymen, Christian and Jewish, of New York City has agreed to supervise a general movement of the churches and synagogues by which the Bureau of Municipal Research and progres sive city officials will have their support In the movement for a scientific, econom ical expenditure of city funds. Many clergymen Intend to preach next In behalf of honest and efficient municipal account ing. The church, by its freedom from tax ation, Is a beneficiary of municipal govern ment to a greater extent than organised or Individual secular Interests. It falls In Its duty if It does not recognise Its bene fits and exert such power as it haa in the interest of good government by practical effort, as well as by abstract preaching. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. A bunch of J24.000 Is a great Incentive for Sherlock Holmes, but think of children beating professionals to it Germans are making the money fly these days. Two million dollars have been con tributed to assist Count Zeppelin's balloon experiments. The famllar kahkl felt of Roosevelt will sail In the air when he hears of the elec tion of William Lortnier as United Slates senator. Bill la the father of eight living children. The assessed valuation of all real and personal property in St Iouls amounts to $827,242,523, a very respectable sum for a Missouri town with only two bridges and one depot Princess Juliana of Holland will not be hobbled with the native wooden shoes for a while. Her tootsies will be encased In American satins, the same as American princesses wear. Unconscious humor circulated through the United States senate the other day, while the members solemnly discussed the tariff duty on quebracho, an extract from the bark of chestnut trees. Norwegian hlstorologlsts dug up In Min4 nesota a runic stone, bearing the date of 13ttf, which Is considered proof that Norsemen beat Columbus to It. Moreover later day Norsemen have cinched the claim. The seal and enthusiasm of a Brooklyn Judge in soaking for seven years a measly thief who stole i5 cents, tends to discredit the notion that justice wears rubber heels on all busy days. People who liken dividends to "money from home,"' rarely get a taste of the real thing. One trust company In New York has Just declared an extra dividend of 200 per cent, a record that leaves Standard Oil and bank stockholders tlod to the post. Prise Illoums of June. Cleveland Plain Dealer, Tho greatest month of all Is near at hand. June, the month of brides and commencement orators, the month of rarest days. This year's crop of graduates will settle all the difficult problems of this and every other age, while lust year's crop, duly chastened In spirit, will meekly lead their Ufa partners to the altar pre pared to aettle down as quite Insignificant particles In the great soi-lal maaa. From June to June great changes are wrought Kollonlng a (iuvd Precedent. Boston Transcript. The new chuncellor of the University of Nebraska, to succeed Ir. K. Benjamin Andrews, Is Prof. Avery, head of the chemistry department. The precedent of taking a chemist for the head of an Insti tution hail worked so well in the cases of Dr. Eliot of Harvard, President Keinaen of Johns Hopkins and Acting President Noyes of "Teen" that lis further trial seems to be fully warranted. I'tlllly of an Ommneat. Chicago Record-Herald. Vice President Sherman delivered a prerh in, Baltimore the other day In which L unnr(i lined his determination to do all in his power to help along the movement in favor of good roads. bxceilem: At last this country seems to have a good use for a vice president. The Cause Is Marehlaa; Oat. Phllalelphla Record. It appears that on the staff of Mr. Roosevelt in Africa are a number of native lip TTIJTSr"""-SWBSBWBsaSJBSSSl SMBBBSBSa M S3 "7 Figure ( Note how easily one meets his ob ligations to Me. Observe how soon one completes all payments on treasured diamonds, watches and other items purchased here. Pay merely $1.00 Weekly and OWN a $25 Diamond, etc. Tay me only $2.00 Weekly then OWN a 75 Diamond, etc., etc. Don't be sensitive about asking credit of me. lUrobaats, manufacturers, even NATIONS get credit why not YOU? 'A diamond, for Instance, will X.OOK well on yon to say nothing- of the prosperous air It Imparts to one. No outsider ever knows of your deal ings with me I keep these matters strlotly COM.FI DXNTXAI.. Mandelberg 1522 Farnam Street ladles who carry packs on perfect equality with the gentlemen. The cause of the suf fragettes seems to be gaining. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Tour hat looks like a corn basket ' he said. "Yes," she murmured. Whereupon he kissed her twice. "What's that for?" she gasped. "For your two red ears." he gaily answered. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Egbert." said the blunhlna- maiden. tov Ing with a button of his coat." have vou uny preference as to tne style or my wed ding gown t "yes. love." said KKbert: I want it to oe one or tne early June variety. Chi cago Tribune. "Would you advise me to buy this?' asked the shonner. Alailam. replied the conscientious clerk wearily, "I really would not. It has gone out or style mr.ee you began looking at It" Philadelphia Ledger. 'Didn't you propose to her sooner than you expected ! yes, but you see, old man. I dldn t want to exhaust all my topics of conversation before we were married." Life. "Mr. Flippy." said the haughty young damsel, whose ancestors had come over with William the Conqueror, "you forget yourself." Thats it!" exclaimed Mr. nippy, beam ing on her. "Thank you so much, Miss Wayback. I knew I had forgotten some thing, and I was so afraid it was my umbrella." Baltimore American. Ira. Suburbs If you'll only agree to stay with us you will be treated as one of the family. Cook Did ye Ivlr hear th' ' " "n av thotT Shure, mum, If yer husbam tj 'ed me as he does you I'd break his ..d wld th' broomshtlck! Judge. "Yes," admitted the fair divorcee. "I married In haste." "And now," remarked the spinster, "you are repenting at leisure, ehT "Not so you can notice It." answered the f. d. "I'm drawing $300 a month alimony." Chicago News, Illm I hear you are to be married. Her I am. If everything goes well. Hlin When, may I askT Her You may ask now If you think you really love me, Cleveland Leader. FLOWERS FOR THE BEAVE. Minna Irving In Leslie's Weekly. Flowers for the soldier dead today, The lilac's purple plumes From old New Rngland's gardens sweet. Where late the springtime blooms, All Jeweled with the morning dew Or heavy with the rain. For him who wore a coat of blue When numbered with the slain. Flowers for the heroes laid to rest. From Dixie's heart aglow With golden summer's burning suns. Magnolia buds of snow, To whisper to the dust below In uniform off gray, A message from the mocking bird That sings so far away. Flowers for the nation's true and brave, The gallant souls that bore The Stars and Ktrlpes to vlotory I'pon a foreign shore; For them the real and fragrant rose Ol all the blossoms queen, And from the west a spray of pine To keep their memories green. Flowers for the Union's cherished dead, And over them unfurled The glorious flag of liberty The fairest in the world. For peace has turneu to spades and hoes The bayonets and guna. And North and South h brothers meet Beside their burled sons. Get a $10.00 FIVE MORE DAYS The A. Hospe Co. will give Free with every new Piano purchased, a Ten Dollar Picture whether you buy for cash or time. We havo 500 subjects to choose from, be It water color picture, etching, still engrav ing or painting. Here is an opportunity to get art with the music and no extra charge, for It Is well known that the highest quality and lowest prices prevail at the Hospe Store. Mrw llano In Mahogany Cases for only f 150. Ten Dollars tukrs one home. The high grade pianos such as Kranlch & Bach, Krakauer, Kimball, Hallet-Davia, Bush Lane, Cable-Nelson, Burton, Imperial and Hospe Pianos. Prices ranging from f 190 up to the 1250, 300, 1350, $100 and the beautiful Grand pianos The world's best pianos all under one roof. Easy terms and cash prices. Jha IrOospe a. 1513 Douglas Street. Pianos Tuned. Repaired. It Out 8 Pay me only $1.50 Weekly and OWN a $50 Diamond or Watch Pay me only $2.50 Weekly then OWN a $100 Diamond or watch i LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING Wednesday morning, June 2, I shall be ready to take your order for t.'at sum mer suit. 1 have Just opened un some of the best fabrics staples and fancies that you have ever clapped eyes on. And if your limit for a vacation or 4th of July suit is 115, I'll inulte you up the best garment' you ever saw for that price, and It won't be made In Chicago, either. Your measure will he taken, tho cloth cut and the clothes tailored right here lu our own workrooms, and you can see every stitch that goes Into them If you care to. No other tailor would make the same suit for less than $20 to fii.M, and the hand-me-down stores can't compete at any price. You run absolutely no risk, for we are perfectly willing to Incorporate In your order, "satisfaction or no pay." Try us out on your vacation clothes and get a suit that will fit, keep the shape and look good all summer. Yours truly, Herzog Tailoring Co., Dave Herxog, Mgr. SALT SULPHUR WATER also the "Crystal Lithium" water from Excelsior Springs, Mo., In 6-gallon sealed Jugs. n-tsallon Jug Crystal Llthla Water. .$3 6-gallon jug Salt-Sulphur water 92.23 Buy at either store. We soil over 100 kinds mineral water. 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