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STATEMENT OK CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, an.:
George li. Tiaclmr.k, treasurer of The Hee
Publishing Company, being duly aworn,
f.tvn thai the actual numb t of full and
complete coplea of The Iall, Morning,
Evening and Sunday lice printed during the
month of July, l'.iOD, was as follows:
1 41,743
2 i 41,700
2 43,090
4 40.830
6 43,160
6 41.C30
7 41, CO
1 41,1. 0
41,810
10 41,760
11 40,680
12 43,830
13 41,740
14 41,710
15 41,870
17 41,810
lg 40,300
19 41,840
20 ..4i,?ao
21 ....43,430
22 41,630
11 41,910
41, BOO
40,150
2fi 41,970
2" 41,60
;;8 41.E40
29 41,840
30 41,85.0
1 41,520
U 41,740
Total 1,393,040
Returned coplea 9,638
Net total 1,883,413
Dally average 41,368
GEO ROE 13. TZSCHUCK,
I Treasurer.
Bubscrlbed In my presence and sworn to
befre me thli 2d day of August. 1909.
(Seal) M. P. WALKER,
Notary Fubllc.
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chanced as often as requested.
There will be no trouble about the
open door in China as long as we send
in $7,000,000 every time it opens.
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General Bingham calculates the
graft in New York City at $100,000,
000 a year, plus. Dear old New York.
The Hammersley children who
were) raised not to know that they are
rich had to talk law suit to find it out.
Freak wills are usually failures.
Floods on the stri'ets of New York
and Trinidad suggest that' playing
both ends against the middle is not an
even break. Rain Is needed in the
corn country.
The money commission takes half a
year to get itself pleased with a cur
rency bill, when a Nebraska democrat
can write one iti ten minutes. Hire
some smart people. "
Mayor McClellan winked and or
dered a clean-up of the town "to win
the ministers." If New York con
tinues to tell tales the good citizens
will have but the cry, "Whom can we
trust?"
Our bumper crops are just up to
consumption. It is appalling to think
what would happen if a bad year
should come along. We should have
to eat boiled cowpeas and remodel
father's clothes.
Aeroplanes will make men of the
coming generations. There is no
gainsaying the reality of the danger
and the quality of the nerve. Sons of
the manager cannot be shoved along
on a monoplane.
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In the new judicial crusade against
the corporations they are going to
tart out by splitting up the Standard
Oil. When the splitting has the day
set everybody will be there to get a
piece for a keepsake.
The World-Herald denounces the
open primary as vicious', but the dem
ocratlo state platform endorses all the
measures passed by the late demo
cratlc legislature as good and holy.
Are platforms binding?
...
Hog cholera looks like a vulgar, un
engaging subject, and yet, if they have
found a cure, it is a greater event than
a European war. When hogs get to
be a sure crop it will not matter about
automobiles and aviation.
This flippant prejudice against powder-puffs
in male breast pockets shows
laggardness in the ranks of progress.
A woman knows mors than does
man, and no woman Is without a puff.
Where is there any room for argu
nient?
President Taft will have a special
quiet conference with President Diaz
hen a man Has naa nis own way
with an uneasy nation for a quarter of
a century it would be an oversight if
our own president failed to interview
him heart to heart.
Business is reviving. Kentucky
and Missouri have returned to their
favorite business of selling jacks to
each other and tbe prices are higher
than for twenty years. The demo
cratic party will be still growing when
the rest of us are forgotten.
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good winter is In store for gro
ceries and meat shops. A . labor
famine is on and wages high. Mar
riages are plentiful. Every man can
have a wife to spend the mcney, and
she knows what a grocery store is
opened foe.
American Nervei.
Trof. Mtiensterberg, who came over
from Oerniany to Harvard a few years
ago, Is young enough to gather im
pressions easily and to retain a per
fectly healthy sense of humor. He la
remembered by magazine readers for
throwing a little bombshell into
hygienics when he declared that the
fatigue and breakdown of the typical
American from hustle and overwork
is pure fiction. His observation, on
the contrary, leads him to believe that
no nation Is so wasteful of time, bo
liberal in vacations, so generous In
giving leisure to women and children.
Comparatively few Americans know
what It Is to work steadily until a task
Is completed, and nearly all of them
are ready to find an excuse to take a
rest.
In another essay this recklessly
plain-spoken German now says that
the craze for physical exercise is noth
ing but an affectation. Americans are
not and never were nervous wrecks.
Strong muscular exertion is not
needed and as a remedy it is useless.
In strong doses it is seriously harm
ful. To be a slave to gymnastic exer
cise Is as bad as to be a slave to cigars.
There is only one source-9f restitution
of used-up brain energy, and that is
rest and sleep, together with fresh air
and good nourishment.
Prof. Muensterberg takes away with
a heartless laugh a swarm of our fa
vorite cures and remedies. He assures
us that there Is not the slightest use
for our hygienic flurry. Americans
are as healthy as anybody and have
grown healthier as they have obtained
mere and hotter foods and comforts.
Nervous diseases have become less
geueral. The savage has marked
nervous instability and more nervous
weaknesses than the civilized man,
partly because he is not well nour
ished and partly because his under
standing Is not trained. Actual break
ing down from overwork is the rarest
of diseases and generally manifests
Itself in those who suffer from under
work and take too much time for
thinking about coming prostration.
Dr. Muensterberg does not add to
his popularity in America by publish
ing these observations, but there will
be little doubt among trained patholo
gists that he is administering a whole
some tonic. The best science Ameri
cans could learn would be to stop
thinking about diseases and to stop
'having them before they come. It
would be a decided help to capacity
for work if they would cultivate pleas
ure in purposeful effort and seek Joy
In results. Without work one can soon
lose the power of work and then it is
a real hardship. The person who
cherishes thought of the time when
he can retire from work is on the
wrong track. The hyglenlst of this
day knows that length of life Is closely
associated with tke prolongation of en
ergized habits of effort.
These things the plain speech of
Dr. Muensterberg either points out or
points to. It is wholesome for Ameri
cans to be told that few men or women
know much about nerve functions. It
s safe for them to act on Muenster-
berg's hint that they know too much
already for their good.
William Winter's Place in Letters
W hen William Winter departed a
few days ago from the service of the
New York Tribune, all of the people
who have a thought for the Btage
knew that an extraordinary event had
happened. It was more than a change
on the desk where an old man
worked. It was more than the loss
of much or little good writing In a
standard newspaper. It was the pass
ing of an epoch. It was the farewell
of a master craftsman to his public,
the disappearance of a venerable
priest from the view of a thousand
disciples who realize that there can
be no successor. He had lived and
wrought beyond his time. The world
of the drama and the world of the
men and women who go to see the
drama had changed. A generation
had grown up who had never seen
Edwin Booth and had barely caught a
glimpse of Joseph Jefferson. James
K. Hackett's father was of the Win
ter period more than is J. K. Hackett
now of middle age, is himself.
ir one speaks or winter as ol a
celebrity who , has passed out of the
world, it is essentially the fact. At
a certain place na won bis right to
speak. Men have learned his note
there. All who wished to hear had
learned where to go. In the usual
habft of things and people they will
not or cannot learn another. The har
monious course for a man of 73 is
not to strive at a new task In new
surroundings, but to set down in his
musical and matchless prose his mem
ories of the wonderful procession of
the gifted who have passed before
hlra in forty-four years. There is
nowhere else such a procession of
personal intimacies and even this mir
acle of a mind cannot retain much
longer Its tenacity of memory nor this
capacious command of words its del
icacy of perception.
To hold this unique individuality of
letters in the highest esteem, it is
not necessary to yield in submission
to his opinions on contemporary dra
matic endeavor. In fact, it is self
evident that when his dicta were
most positive, were most disconnected
with what came before him, they were
most likely to be Insufficient. He
had tbe classic mind, the literary ex
pression, the ideals of the past. He
wrote as he felt and as nobody else
of bis time could write, but he had
limits, and his critical Judgment was
not one to follow without question.
It would be bard to name a single
great talent that he was first to Alt
cover or a single principle that he
first 114 do a, Ta .world pro
gressed in spite of him. There have
been more accomplished actors than
Booth and plays more charged with
profound truth than any that appeared
In a modern play thirty years ago.
But what Winter Is not is of less
consequence than what he la. He Is
the best Informed American on the
history of the stage, the most musical
and fascinating writer who devotes
himself to that topic, an exponent of
the dignity and grace which every
high-bred man should exhibit when
he writes. William Winter Is a poet
in verse and prose who formed a
style in a school of fine literary tra
ditions. If he has enemies they are
stupid If they do not hope for him
many years of an activity equal to
that of the last five years.
Partnership by Taxation.
The corporation tax embodied in the
new tariff bill provides for a levy of
1 per cent on the net earnings of all
corporations In excess of $5,000. If
the net earnings were all distributed
as . dividends, and the $5,000 ex
emption were abolished these taxes
would in substance make Uncle Sam
a partner In every corporation with a
holding equal to one ehnre in every
one hundred. If the excess earnings
from dividends should exceed the
$5,000 exemption Uncle am would be
a partner to the extaat of more than
one hare in one hundred, while if
they fall below the $5,000 exemption
his share would tie something less
than that of the holder of one share
out of a hundred. If there were no
net earnings Uncle Sam wouid get no
dividends any more than would any
other shareholder.
Over in Chicago the passenger on a
street car is confronted with a sign
which reads, "The city gets 61 per
cent." On closer inquiry he learns
that the 61 per cent Is 61 per cent of
the net earnings after certain deduc
tions and allowances. The arrange
ment which Chicago has with its
street railway system is in effect a tax
of 51 per cent on the net profits.
It goes without saying that the net
profits depend largely on the charac
ter of the management, the volume of
business and the cost of carrying it
on. In the recent controversy over
the demand of the men for an in
creased wage schedule it was figured
that the "concessions made td em
ployes would amount to $1,000,000 in
tho three and a half years which, tbe
contract was to cover. Accepting
these estimates, and assuming that
other Items remain stationary, the
payment of an additional $1,000,000
to the employes would mean that a
little more than $500,000 of it would
come, out of the city's share. With
out arguing for or against the de
mands of the employes of Chicago's
street railway, or the Justness of the
agreement, we may point out that the
net earnings tax gives the public a
direct interest in the conduct of the
corporation which it would not have
from a gross earnings tax. In the Chi
cago case this interest was recognized,
and the city had a representative on
the arbitration board, but the concessions-were
doubtless granted with less
determined resistance because the city
would foot half the bill.
That the government assumes part
nership relations when it levies a net
earnings tax may be regarded by some
as a strong point of that form of taxa
tion, and it unquestionably makes for
complete supervision of corporate
business by the federal government.
If it forces a cleaning up of cor
poration management, it will accom
plish more of lasting value than the
mere contribution to the treasury of
the proceeds of the tax.
Higher Education of Women.
For 'whom the phrases are intended,
for what group, what cult, what pe
riod of years, is not divulged, but a
preacher is heralded as coming from
St. Louis to Omaha with the message,
"It's a farce, this highly educated,
screeching, childless and husbandless
sisterhood," Without certified knowl
edge on the subject, of which he has
had hints before, the common man of
the workaday world will from his
casual experience incline to the belief
that this is a Mrs. Harris and that
there ain't no such person.
Women, like men. always did have
something to talk about. Those who
attend such institutions as women's
colleges seem to have rather fewer
subjects than the ordinary female per
son who is not so particular as to
what she talks about. Whatever
higher education Is or does of itself,
the places where It is administered to
modern young women are in charge of
cultivated, restrained, modulated per
sons whose influence and counsel are
in the direction of a gentlewoman's
part in life. As a woman's social
character and manners are the most
anybody knows about her. men will
vote for the highly educated woman in
question.
The practically educated young
woman began to appear as a type in
the west. It flourished early in Ne
braska and Kansas. At this time we
can decide what we think of the va
riety. The unhesitating opinion is
that the western woman of education
has maintained an extraordinarily
high rank, not only in mental culti
vation, but as wtfe and mother and
as a participant in the social life of
her communities. In the east Vassar,
Wellesley, Smith and Bryn Mar have
a creditable product. The animal de
scribed in the quoted phrase above
never shows Itself as a class. Higher
education for women suits the world
or the world would not spend so much
money on it. lew men ever com
plained because their wives bad at
tended higher institutions of educa
tloa. Women of education wish that
their children may be educated along
similar ideals. All the proofs are
against changing tbe women's colleges
into factories.
A Case of Delayed Justice.
At a recent meeting of the Society
of the United States Military , Tele
graph Corps in its twenty-eighth an
nual reunion at Pittsburg, the presi
dent of the association, William B.
Wilson, arraigned congress most se
verely for its failure to accord the
same recognition given the "men be
hind the guns" to the "boys behind
the keys" who marched side by side
with them, partaking with them the
privations, hardships and dangers in
separable from the life of a soldier in
the field.
"It is a disgrace," declares Presi
dent Wilson, "to every administration,
of the national government which has
been installed and of every congress
which has met in tie last forty-six
years that that neglect should be con
tinued to this day. Most of the 'boys'
bave passed to their heavenly reward,
whilst the remainder of the old guard,
less than 2 00 in number, see their
hopes for Justice being dealt out to
them grow fainter as the years go by
bringing the tomb closer to them."
He goes on to explain that the an
tagonism to the legislation demanded
by the veterans of the military tele
graph is based on the fallacious
ground that they were civil employes
of the government and are to be classi
fied with railroad engineers, con
ductors, byakemen, teamsters, quarter
masters, clerks and other civil em
ployes, and this, notwithstanding tha
the telegraph operator has been, by
act of congress, given the right to hon
orable discharge, which purely civilian
employes could never claim. While
congress has failed to put members of
the Military Telegraph corps on a pen
sionable basis, Andrew Carnegie, who
himself served in the corps, has pro
vided for a pension to those who nre
absolutely needy equal to the service
pension of $12 per month.
The shabby treatment by congress
of the men who laid the wires on the
battlefield and sent messages which
saved armies reflects no credit on the
gratitude of republics. As intimated
in their president's address, it is now
almost too late to grant any adequate
legislative relief, except to a few
straggling survivors. Patriotlo citi
zens who believe in Justice to all who
risked their lives on the battlefield in
defense of the union will, however,
hope that congress will respond at the
very next session before the edge of
time cuts off the few that are still liv
ing. Country Preachers.
At Amherst the Massachusetts Ag
ricultural college has been conduct
ing a summer school for country
preacherB. The object in to Hv
variety to the mental life of the min
isters by cultural lectvrei on farm
ing as well as on sociological and
Other suitable subjects. That forty-
four men registered this year is evi
dence that the visitors gained as much
from companionship and interchange
of views as from the lectures. The
testimony of the attending preachers
s mat an unexpected pleasure and
gain were the results. It is predicted
that next year the number will be
doubled.
Lectures were .supplemented with
field trips and visits to the bulldlns-a
where demonstration is given in dairy
ing, cauie feeding and greenhouse
v.a. come or the lecture topics
were cnurch Federation," "The Min
In,,.'. TV m -
'ol" or uooks." "The Church
in community Life," and so forth.
Whatever deficiency there may be
in me uplifting Influences of the min
inters in average towns is due largely
to tho lack of vivifying companion-
snip. 'The associations of the minis
ter are not with cultivated men on
his own plane of thought, but with
lnmrrerent and uninformed neoni
Gradually he drifts backward to tne
status of the shallow and common
nlare. until i.nii.. li. . .
, ujs inina is nn
longer concerned with subjects of ele
vated meaning or with those which
Atlldfivn LI,. a - -
u.c,6a U1B useiui innuence. The
idea of the Amherst work seems to h
rich in possibilities of Intellectual cul
tivation, widely distributed points of
view and eenulna hnmnn i
.-.wi, . V I (J V (3
meni.
If anybody needs excursions lnt
mental i. i
u is me country
preacher. The exnerimenr nf 4mt,-.
tiuuci sv
8 all the foundations of sucena
and growth. It will assuredly lead to
a movement of vigor and large dimen
sions.
Institutional Entity,
John D. Rockefeller is properly to
be reckoned as an institution and not
as a mun. The man in the case is or
dinary. He is not like old Goliath
tall, or like the czar, the head of a
haughty dynasty. An institution, he
Is the center of the greatest aggrega
tion of wealth the world ever saw.
Since the latest rise in stocks the
wan street tankers estimate the
Rockefeller wealth at $700,000,000
Should he live till 1919. when he will
be 80 years old, the amount will be
$1,000,000,000, and for the first time
the world will have a billionaire. Per
sonally he can use, or even direct, the
" oi oniy a slight fraction of the
mighty accumulation. It Is necussary
for nlm to call upon numbers of othe
men to assist him in finding ways to
employ the sum with any approach to
intelligence. He does so much
through agents that there are schools
which he has largely benefited without
ever seeing, and banks that he has
founded without having signed hi
name.
One of tbe great world questions is
What will become of, this Institution
at his death? Ignoring amounts that
will be devised to his family, there
will be a distribution to the public on
an Immense scale. As nearly ns any
thing, here is the answer to the ques
tion: What is accumulated by the
world's ordered processes will be in
time divided, subdivided and scattered
by the same processes. The institu
tion is so vast that Rockefeller is the
helpless creature of ruleR, forces and
agreements. He has existed and per
haps will live to become the world's
first billionaire, but there will be no
permanent change on the face of na
ture or in the fates of men.
The New York Independent, which
used to be classed among the rock
ribbed of the religious press, ridicules
the Brttlsh ban on marriages with a
deceased wife's sister with the declara
tion that "there is no Bible against
them, and If there were & Mosaic pro
hibition, it would have no more valid
ity than the command to sprinkle the
ashes of a red heifer." If they want
company in heresy, we Invite attention
to this of Trof. Foster and President
Eliot.
If President Taft crosses over into
Mexico to pay his respects to Presi
dent Diaz he will break the precedent
against a president leaving the coun
try during hla term of office and en
tering territory subject to a foreign
ruler. His departure, if only for a
few hours, may also raise the ques
tion whether "Jim" Sherman should
attempt to exercise his prerogative to
sit in the White House for a few min
utes. The woman in the case connects (he
story. . It was not a strong man in
overalls, but Senator Borah himself,
that the widow was after, and her let
ter was her cute conception of a soul
message. But as Borah sprouts no
sentiment, she can step along to Sena
tor Heyburn, who is a brave, fat hero,
guaranteed at 300 pounds, and not a
pound of it grass-fed.
Our new dreadnaughts, the Arkan
sas and the Wyoming, are to be of
26,000 tons and may carry 16-inch
guns. The only weakness in these
prides of the navy is that their com
manders cannot learn to navigate the
Mississippi. Of what joy is a 16-inch
gun to a crew whose dreadful fate
it is never to see the beat of the na
tion's heart?
Sluggish old Albion is coming with
a rush. The chancellor of the ex
chequer and the president of the Brit-
sh Board of Trade attend the aero
plane contests and the government is
to spend $350,000 for machines. It
is dangerous to throw a real scare into
a man asleep. It is impossible to fore
tell what he will do.
A Chicago professor says to a Los
Angeles professor, "Americans ought
to have Indian blood in their veins."
Says the Los Angeles overhanging
brow, "Sure, look at the constitution
of Oklahoma." The exchange of
ideas pauses while tbey look.
At all events it Is gratifying to
know that the new tariff has bad no
depressing effect on the chautauqua
gate receipts and that the orators who
command a guaranty and a percentage
have no right to complain about delay
of the prosperity special.
A Wide Open Door, '
Wall Street Journal.
There Is only one door to prosperity open
to all, and its name is Steadfast Endeavor.
Aa Free aa Hot Air.
Washington ptar.
A water power trust may materialise.
Dut gifts of eloquence are so widely dis
tributed that the country need never fear
a lung-power trust.
An Opening; for Flyer.
Washington Post.
The militant suffragettes threaten to
launch a new party among- their men ad
vocates. A splendid chance for Messrs.
Bryan and Watson to take another po
litlcal flyer.
Paternallftiii Worth While.
Baltimore American.
Uncle Sam has found work for 3.0U0 of
the unemployed. This may b paternal-
Ism, but It Is the kind that no party la
like ly to denounce aa long as there is need
of connecting work with the laborer.
Whither We Are IJrlftt
New York Post.
By means of the aelsmograph we may
some day predict and locate earthquakes
and move away from them. Bhall we ever.
when clofce pressed, be able to leave the
earth altogether, and make of the universe
our oyster?
Klevatloa of the Mitt.
Brooklyn Eagle.
A short time ago President Taft and Mr.
Cannon had a dispute over gloves. If thla
should happen again. Mr. Taft, having gone
In for one of the chief recreations of bis
strenuoua predecessor, will be prepared to
effect a settlement by putting on a pair.
A Hoar from the felota.
Philadelphia Record.
Coin designers, like artists In general
lack the practical sense. The designer of
the Lincoln cent never thought of meas.
uriug the slots In automatic telephone and
selling machine?. Two very serious com
plaints against the new coin are that it
will not fit the slots In the selling ma
chines, and that It will perform the func
tions of a nickel fi the automatic tele
phones. The telephone companl-s, however,
are taking measures to Instruct their In
telligent machines so that they will dla
criminate between a new cent and an old
nickel.
Kllraxgmt aialerarnts
ft. l'aul I'lMpatch.
The statement h is been made by a dele-
gale to the National Fraternal congreaa
now in sek.tun in Huton, that U0 per cent
of the people in this country are afflicted
with tuberculosis in aunm form. That my
be so, but more 1'Vrly it la not. Theru is
a tendency always to gst esclted when
quoting figures conoernlng a seourga like
the white plague. Tuberculosis Is a serious
thing In thla country and Is being dealt
with as such. Uut good progress I belnj
made and there Is no occasion for undue
alarm or extravagant etaism
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT
loulsvllle Carrier Journal: 'Trairmatlc
pantheism" Is prescribed an a new religion
by someone who la not on th ataff of the
t'niverslty of Chicago.
Washing-ton Herald: A Maneachviftetts
minister advocates SLtday base ball anil
an Alabama minister wants to make It
criminally Illegal. And yet the. New Eng
land oonaclence has (renerally been con
sidered to have the Southern conscience
beat a thousand miles for narrowness.
St. Louis Globe Democrat: Rev. Madi
son C. Teteers declares that as between
Senator Stone and th negro waiter, the
negro was the gentleman. The mail of
the Rev. Madison C. Peters will now, for
ome days, be attuned to hnrmonla with
summer weather.
New Tork Post: Ex-President Eliot Is
not afraid to grappl with the Inaccuracy
of Journalism, the hanty Interpretations of
the cleriry, and the general weakness of
human nature. He patiently meets the
criticism of hla "New Religion" in a let
ter to an Indianapolis attorney with the
following simple statement of faith: "I
venture to add that I am not at the 'hold
of any proud world' whatever; second,
that such flttle part of the world as I
am best acquainted with lovea the "lowly
Nazarene' and doea not hate Hltn; third,
that I have met during my life most of
the sorrows which are accounted heaviest;
fourth, that Jeaus will bo' In the religion
of the future not lesa, but more than In
the Christianity of the past." In these
few words there is large autobiographical
suggestion. Dr. Eliot's way of replying to
criticism la both lofty and wise. The wis
dom of it is shown by the tact that even
rash criticism and care)eng Interpretation
not only do no harm, when met in a con
stant spirit of patience, but even do good,
as they stimulate and suggest further cor
rective discussion.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
Aeroplane stocks return to earth with a
dull thud.
It Is peculiarly fitting that the most pros
perous chautauqua circuits should be found
in the hot air belt.
The proposed advance in roast beef cuts
by local restaurants should relieve the
strain on aafety cleavers.
It costs $5 a session to bave woman suf
frage expounded In the Belmont marble
palace at Newport. The political game
costs money any way It s played.
Pure food commissioners from various I
states assemble In Denver next week. Ad
vance notices indicate that the lid will be
lifted and several varieties canned.
Cheer up! If you have a grouch, get out
side a section of pie for breakfast and be
happy. A Chicago doctor says pi reaches
the spot quicker than any eye-opener.
A Texas politician of tbe Flannagan or
der having experimented with both, soberly
declares that Beverly surpasses Oyster Bay.
Beverly has more trains running out of It"
No report on the war game In Massa
chusetts can be considered complete until
the camera brigade la heard from. Mem
bers fought fiercely on the firing line and
know what's what.
Among the Missouri laws now In action
Is one forbidding the display of firearms
In shop windows. They may be exhibited
in showcases, but not so they can be seen
from the street. Carrying a firearm la
made a penitentiary offense.
Two fundamental domeatlo Issues were
presented to a Chicago divorce court last
week. Wife contented that as she stayed
at home and worked all week her husband
should stay at home on Sunday. Husband
Insisted that after working all week to pro
vide a home for his wife he should have
Sundays to do as he pleased. Decree of di
vorce awarded the wtfe.
TUB SPIRIT OK I'NRKST.
A Few Remarks on Thoae Who Prefer
Kloklnar to Poshing-.
Charleston News and Courier.
We hear a great deal these days about
the spirit of unrest which It Is claimed pre
vails to a greater or less degree In nearly
every quarter of the glylxs. Undoubtedly
there 1b, and we suppose there always has
been, among some persons a certain dissat
isfaction with . what life offers them, a
tendency toward undervaluing their own
blessings while overestimating the more
fortunate condition of their fellow-men.
There are many bright men and women In
thla world so circumstanced that their
natural talents hav never found the proper
channel. Under more fortunate conditions
success instead of failure would have
marked their Jives, but, possibly, It Is un
questionably true that even given the Iden
tical opportunities and advantages In every
respect the man who Is forever belittling
his neighbor's achievements would never
have duplicated that neighbor's success.
So much depends upon a man's mental
grasp of his own life problem and his abil
ity to recognize and make the moat of his
God-given opportunities, that It is well nigh
Impossible to estimate what measure of
success one man would have attained in
another maVa place. However, the world
is full of malcontents whose lives spell fail
urethose who have "soured on life," as It
were, and whp, feeling that they have been
unfairly treated through no fault of theirs,
make no well directed efforts to retriv
their fortunes. These persons will never
play any Important part in the development
of tbe world's material growth, or con
tribute anything to the betterment of so
cial conditions.
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Good Pianos
Between Now and Sept. 1st
All Pianos, Organs and Piano Playor Stock
at Prices Lower Than Ever.
A. Hospe & Co. will move pianos beforo September
1st. New 1910 Btock coming, thereforo all the pianos,
more especially tho shop worn, used anil necond hand
pianos in every kind of cases and woods made, will bo
sold at lowest prices ever the Kranich & Bach, tho
Steinways, tho Knabes, the Kimballs, the Cable-Nelsons,
the Burtons, the Cramers, Stodarts and fifty others.
Trices ranging from $35, $98, $139, $159, $198, $239 and
$205. Terms-$10.00 down, $5.00 to $10.00 per month.
Now is the time to make a purchase that is a real
saving.
A. HOSPE CO., m Do"gas a-
HeaddUarters for AdoIIo Plaver Pianos the lafpat
1 1 I 1 A . a i t
solo aevice aamost penecuon.
SERMONS BOILED DOVTN.
Religion never gains In depth a It los.ee
In breadth.
Virtue Is more than a keen senae of the
vice In others.
A man loses none of his ewn pitch whea
he blnckens another.
No man ever yet lived a hog's Ufa snl
escaped a hog's looks.
They are most harmed by flattery h
are most hunRry for It.
Religion never works better on Pundajr
for resting all the week.
The poorest man In this world Is the ot.e
who owns nothing but riches.
The more mean men talk about religion
the leas religion will mean to men.
Too many are willing to advise the tnruii
who Is down and assist the one who Is u ()
Every opportunity to help another along
the way Is. an Invitation toward heaven.
Tbe trouble with many an upllfter la
that he Is standing on the bubble of self
esteem. Tt does no damage to be cnllod a fool.
the serious thing Is to be satinfled Wltn
deserving It.
They who have the bread of lifo for a
world have no right to waste time fighting
over Its history.
In the church where religion Is a mat
ter of satins ami llk hnts there are al
ways plenty of naked souls.
Many think they are saints because they
affect to sneer at the dollars they are too
slothful to earn. Chicago Tribune,
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
Fond Toung Mother Oh. my dear, the)
baby has Just cut another tooth!
Elderly Papa That balances matters Itr
the family. Another tooth has Just cut.
rue. Baltimore American.
Tom Say, did you ever kiss a B'rl In m
quiet spot? ,
Jack Yes, but the spot was only quiet
while I was kissing it. Boston Transcript.
"Hello, Gayman! What's your hurry?"
"I've got to catch a train, Oldboy."
"Where are you bound?"
"Eor Halifax."
"What for?"
"I don't know. My wife told me to go
there.'" Cleveland Leader.
"What delayed you?" asked the parents
of the young woman who had been out
alr-ahlpping with her swain. "Did you
have an accident?"
"Nothing of Importance." she explained.
'The propeller broke and we dropped In
on some friends of Harold's." Life.
His proud Hp curled.
"You think you are very never, net
sneered, "but I can see through you."
And the next day she had her summer
gown lined. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"It's a wonder that Sparks' widow didn't
take up his business when he died. It's a
sort that comes natural to a woman."
"What waa It?"
"He waa a matchmaker." Baltimore)
American.
"They say that Stevenson frequently
worked a whole afternoon on a single
line."
'That's nothing. I know a man who ha
been working the last six months on ono
sentence." Judge.
"What? You're going to marry Torn,
Speed? Why, He's awful!"
"What makes you think so?"
"1 hear he's been blackballed by every
club In town."
"Yes, I heard so, too. That sort of hus
band won't have much excuse for staying
out night, will he?" Cleveland Leader.
"Myrtle," asked hor Indulgent uncle,
"how did you manage to spend so much
money while you wtre at that summer re
sort?'' "I lost the most of It at bridge, uncle,"
answered the petted niece.
"At bridge! Why child, you promised
me you wouldn't learn to play that game!"
"I didn't learn it, I'nclo George. 1 didn't
half learn It. That's why I lust so much
money." Chicago Tribune.
THE GOLDEN ROD.
Baltimore American.
Off In the fields of ripening R-raln.
Which the touch of the sun makes gold
again;
Off with the daisies nodding white,
With their yellow hearts und their blooms
of light,
Far away from the dust and glare,
From the steam's sharp lilss and the fao
tory blure,
Where In quiet peace the rich plants nod.
There shine the glories of golden rod.
They line the road with their scepter
blooms.
With tin- bright, keen gold of their waving
plumes,
They bunch In beauty through long green
fields
Whose verdure a background of softness
yields;
They stretch away in a golden iane.
r or an arum s eye to travel again
And yet again. In its gorgeous mass,
With Its lights and shades as the sun-
VeBIIlH pOBB.
As It blooms once more, what a thougiit It
brings
Of the lover more happy than crowned
kings.
Who pussed with his sweetheart along the
way,
With nature and nature's Jewels gay,
And looked upon her rich ripe hair,
Her violet eyes, and her hi unties rare.
And felt that Eden's path they trod
As they plucked together the golden rod.
IMPORTED and AMERICAN
MINLKAIi WATEIW.
Obtained aa direct shipments from the
sprtngH as importer.
Case 12 H-gallons Boro-Llthla ffater,
for $5.00
West Baden Hpanrtrl Water, case of a
dozen quarts 99.60
6-gallon Jug Crystal Llthla Water.. 3
6-gallon Jug Suit-Sulphur water $2.28
Buy at either store. We sell over 100
kinds mineral water.
Sherman & McConnsIl Drug Go.
Sixteenth and Dodge 8U.
Owl Drug Go.
Sixteenth aud Harney Sts.
Going Cheap
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