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Bmfe.crlber. leaving; the city tem
porarily ahoald nave The Hee
nailed tm them. Addreaa Trill be
ckaagei aa often aa requested.
.To automobile drivers: Slow down
before Instead of after the accident.
'Lucky for Mayor "Jim" that the
open season for Chautauqua debates
does not extend through the whole
year.
What are the pure food people go
ing to do about that Texas intoxicating
bean? Is it to be classed as wine or
whisky?
The schools of New York are to go
on part time. And yet the shallow
1h Inkers ask about the language ot
the future.
Mr. Bryan's Commoner has an edi
torial about "Stereotyped News." Why
not say something about "Stereotyped
Oratory?"
Diaz has run for the presidency
eight times. The difference is that he
has' been elected eight times and has a
high percentage.
Detroit and the Athletics are spiking
each other. The aviators and automo
bile drivers were calling base ball
players has-beens and mollycoddles.
The comet is held back until 1910.
The earth will stay in the same old
course and we can't miss the arrival.
' We can send a monoplane to meet it.
It seems that they managed things
with ability at Rhelms. Everybody
won a prize and the crowd went home
satisfied, with no grumbling over rain
checks.
President Taft lets out 8,000 men
from the army. It's all right If air
ships are about to make cavalry use
less, infantry defenseless and artillery
ineffective.
It should be distinctly understood
that Congressman Walter I. Smith also
bas a few friends at home who ap
prove of his course during the short
term of congress.-
Senator Cummins holds to his ep
ochal utterance that he has every con
fidence in Mr. Taft. The democrats
do not know where to take a hold on
this warm proposition.
Tillman is opposed to the education
of the negroes. Never mind. When
the negroes know more than Tillman
does there remains the shotgun to up
hold the dignity of the senate.
'One man's stomach cannot stop the
universe. Even John D. Archbold has
forgotten II. II. Rogers, only a few
months ago reputed the boldest and
cleverest mind in the magnate ranks.
Aa the Taft tour approaches, the
women of the wideawake west Inquire
what la the style when you go on an
excursion to look at a president. There
la no let up In the procession of deep
Issues.
Sir Thomas Llpton asks the com
mlttea to amend the America cup
rule. 'They are stingy, but we' are
not amending them until the British
committees show fair play in the Hen
ley rules.
Oovernor Shallenberger evidently
placea no reliance on Mr. Bryan's
declaration that he U not now, and
does not want to be, a candidate for
United States senator. If a mere re
publican Impugned Mr. Bryan'g sincer
ity he would be a target for a volley
of democratic denunciation.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
There has been at every stage
plenty of writing in America. By the
time Duanc had established the Au
rora ard another s-t In Philadelphia
had begun to print Hie Portfolio, the
little nation had become positively
garrulous. At that time and for long
afterward the writing was Imitative.
What was not the slave of English
models followed the French at a dis
tance. Even the Declaration was de
clared to be too stilted to savor ex
actly of the soil. When Americans
did begin to write as they talked it
was not long before some of them had
the sane good sense of the "first
American," Hen Franklin, with a dis
tinctiveness of style they have never
lost.
By common consent, with not much
demur of school or section, the finest
and rarest output of the purely Amer
ican literary spirit has been that of
the unique group of friends the best
known of whom were Emerson,
Holmes, Longfellow, Hawthorne and
Thoreau, attended with the less
known Dana, Alcott, Brisbane, Ripley
and Margaret Fuller. It is opportune
that the Holmes centenary comes at
this time, when there is so much dilu
tion In the roal American spirit of ex
pression that it can not be recognized
except in the forced form of dialect.'
It is as opportune as was the chance
that threw together on terms of un
usual intellectual intimacy that re
markably varied company of talents.
Tradition tells us that Holmes was by
far the most versatile, captivating and
fluent of the group. Indeed, if we are
to credit tradition, he was one of the
most fascinating talkers that ever
lived. The living, who can only read,
see the quaint, Inimitable humor, the
human kindliness, the broad mental
grasp and the Immovable fidelity to
truth. This is a noble list of qualities
for a man to possess. He possesses
them all and more. He was not, it
may be, the greatest of the group.
That may have been Hawthorne, the
poorest talker of them all. Holmes
was the most charming talker and,
speaking for all the people, was tbe
most agreeable and penetrating writer.
If literature had to lose one It would
spare him with sharpest regret, be
cause he will never be Imitated, repro
duced or unintelligible. There is
hardly a short poem of Holmes which
Is not at this centenary date as frefeli
und clear and widely popular as when
It was written. It is invigorating to
have our minds taken back by The
centenary to the life and work of the
most typical representative that dis
tinctively American expression ever
gave to literature.
Nobody would call it a perfectly fair
way of comparing the merits of great
authors to say that one could do some
thing that another could not do, but
It la not without point to assert that
the creator of "The Chambered Nauti
lus" could have written "Evangeline"
if he had set himself at it, while Long
fellow could never have compassed
"The Last Leaf," "The One-Hoss
Shay" or "The Old Boys." On the
other hand, it has been urged that
Holmes was provincial and of the con
tracted vicinage of eastern Massachu
setts. That .Is not estimate or criti
cism. It is more accurate to say that
the centenary recalls the legacy of a
wonderfully representative national
singer whose harp has never been put
in tune by another hand.
Canada and Mexico.
Though Canada is closer than Mex
ico to American social and commercial
Interests, the southern neighbor has
had a greater charm for American
travelers and students.' We read more
about Mexico, but know more about
Canada. Fresh Information is now
being stimulated by the elections in
Mexico and by the exchange of visits
between the presidents of the two
northern republics. Though Mexico
has no disposition to be Americanized,
the American curiosity continues to be
alive when anything happens among
the senors.
Mexico has Improved commercially
since the rulership, the reign one
could really say of Diaz, brought and
fixed stable industrial conditions.
Railroads have multiplied until the
records credit the republic with 25,-
000 miles. Diaz has promoted rail
roads from a military as much as from
a commercial viewpoint. The main
lines are designed so that any part of
the country may be swiftly covered
with troops. The "well-calculated,
judiciously exercised tyranny" of
Diaz has made peace and stimulated
the growth of wealth. An industrial
era tends to perpetuate itself and Mex
ico now holds itself steady almost
without use of the military.
Proud of his own and his country's
reputation, the Mexican likes to have
libraries, art galleries and learned so
cieties. He likes a government that
spends money for 6uch things. The
leading Mexicans are, like Diaz, not
quite pure Spanish, but have a touch
of native blood. There is no middle
class. As one writer says, the people
are divided into those who do manual
work and those who do not. The
former are all gentlemen and tho lat
ter all laborers. "Any occupation
that cannot be conducted In a frock
coat and silk hat Is beneath the man
of social" position." The lower class
Is neither Industrious nor educated.
Consequently the wealth and exports
still consist chiefly of mineral prod
ucts.
In our conception the progress
of Mexico Is slow, though it is the
boast and ambition of the Diaz regime
to be wealthy and enlightened. With
much effort on both sides the United
States and Mexico have gathered small
profit from the intercourse, while
Canada and the United States without
much stated effort and, a great dl
of quarrelsome talk have worked tip a
heavy trade and have an assured view
oj a prosperous future In neighborly
exchange. It Is no doubt true that
Toronto owns nion American securi
ties than all Mexico combined could
count.
Still, though Canada's lately opened
coal mines and wheat prairies are of
more value to us than the metals and
coffee plantations of Mexico, the latter
country has a plcturesque.iess, an elo
quence and a quixotism which give It
a livelier attraction to the outsider.
As Diaz approaches his eighth term
with a sort of melodramatic welcome
to Taft, we wonder what the future of
the two republics will be.
The Point of View.
Nothing could Illustrate more strik
ingly the Individual divergence In
point of view than the reception ac
corded the recent decision of tho
United States circuit court adverse to
the action of the lnterstateCoinmerce
commission moving the railway basing
line for through rates from tho Mis
sissippi to the Missouri river. While
St. Louis and St. Paul are exulting
over It as a victory for the people,
Kansas City is lamenting another sur
render to the railroads. Denver seems
to be mere than half pleased as against
Omaha remonstrating and demanding
appeal to the court of last resort. Chi
cago sits complacently as if playing to
win oa either 6lde, and the farther
east discusses the decision coldly and
dispassionately as a disinterested spec
tator. As a local issue the tariff pales into
insignificance beside the question of
transportation rates. Every city and
town that borders on the ocean, or is
washed by a navigable river, is frantic
for the improvement of our waterways,
while the land-locked marts in the in
terior are Indifferent, or at least slow,
to respond. The railroads are natu
rally operated with a view to tralV
and railway managers with eyes and
ears alert to the demands of traffic
centers must be pounded to turn
around to the possibilities of a new
source of tonnage. The country has
been growing with marvelous rapidity,
but the -inertia of business sticks in
the old grooves and the railroads are
reluctant to admit that conditions have
changed, and that railroad bases must
be readjusted. It Is all in the point
of view as between the railroad man
agers and the shippers, and again as
between one set of shippers in one row
of towns and another set of shippers
In another row of towns.
But the country is too big to be long
held back by any disposition to cling
to traditions. AH these various joints
of view will have to be reconciled and
harmonized voluntarily if possibl
by compulsion if must be.
Airships in War.
Rhelms and Ita phenomenal exhibi
tions of travel in the air, timed exactly
with Count 'Zeppelin's spectacular
visit to Berlin, ;ive seriousness to the
thought of what the new art will do
for military science. Two magazine
writers, said to be well Informed, pre
dict that a half dozen airships, cost
ing not one-quarter of the sum in
vested in one Dreadnought, could
easily destroy any battleships now
afloat. In changing the art of war
from the old form of matching armed
populations to the modern one of
hurling one fighting machine against
another, which is the naval system,
the world has simply reached in a
normal way the airship. War be
comes a struggle of Intellect, and the
controlling factor is progress In the
mechanic arts.
As to battle on land, the prediction
Is that war- on land must end. No
branch of the land service can contend
with this new power, which can starve
or annihilate an army of any number,
wun siignt risk to itself. It can In
every conceivable situation select Its
own tactics with a certainty of suc
cess. The yellow peril Is removed, be
cause for the present even Japan can
not muster resources for the latest
method of fighting. Millions of pop
ulation and a national gift of personal
bravery are beside the question. Rus
sia, Japan and China, all allied, might
not be a match for Belgium and would
not know how to prepare a campaign.
To reach that stage of military
science may be a task of decades, but
the progress made since the Langley
attempt and since the St. Louis
World's fair offered an Immense cash
prize In the hope of producing an as
tonishing spectacle, suggests that the
crucial point has beeu passed and the
perfection of the aerial warship is
only a matter of detail. One thing is
sure, the airship Is the absorbing prob
lem of the world as long as its capabil
ity In peace and war Is unmeasured
with reasonable certainty.
Training Attention.
In spite of its censorious flavor the
series of inquiries into the American
mind and habits made by Dr. Muen
sterberg of Harvard continues to be
interesting and instructive. Dr.
Muensterberg does rot at any point
quite see the real fertility of the Amer
ican striving. Still, he hits effectively
at some of the things that we ougfit to
know.
A parage on concentrated atten
tion particularly deserves careful
reading. He says that the foreigner
who studies the American character
will always be impressed by the im
pulse for self-assertion, self-perfection
and self-realization which gives mean
ing and significance to the race. This
foreigner will at the same time feel
the lack of thoroughness, tho super
ficiality of the work. It Is the exulta
tion of involuntary attention and the
subordination of voluntary attention
the reverse of the true prcess of
education. Perhaps the deepest mean
ing of edui-atlon Is to secure an en
ergy which emancipates Itself from
haphazard Impulses and unassorted
knowlodge. This general statement of
both a condition and a theory of edu
cation Is true In principle and appli
cation. We will agree that we are not
trained as we might be In the steady
concentration of the significant which
marks the best mental work. But the
question arises whether there are not
many and useful kinds of work which
call for quickness of perception, pre
cision of stroke and celerity of action.
Some men would insist that they are
the rarest and highest kinds of work.
The American on his native heath
is likely to show such a mind and the
temperament that goes with It. If he
Is sometimes superficial, ho sometimes
sees far ahead In situations where he
would be worthless If he could not see
uheud. He can sometimes act with
celerity when slowness would be disas
ter. He can often adopt a new way
when the old way would be a dead
loss. We do uot need Improvement 1n
concentrating for prolonged periods
on the essientlal and significant. But
we must be somewhat unwilling to ob
tain consecutive attention at the cost
of alertness.
After all. Dr. Muensterberg may
have only stumbled as he struck the
difference between the executant mind
and tho absorbent mind. These two
minds are born In all countries. Dr.
Muensterberg must agree that nations
do not train one to be the other, but
do the best at hand, in school and In
life, to develop each.
A Superfluous Signature.
Governor Comer of Alabama has signed
the Income tax resolution which passed the
Alabama legislature, with only two votes
against It, and by a unanimous vote In the
senate. This gives Alabama the honor of
being the first state In line for this great
reform. The Commoner.
Alabama, unquestionably, has tho
honor of being the first state to ratify
the income tax amendment to the con
stitution submitted by the recent con
gress, but there is good reason to con
tend that the approval of the resolu
tion by gubernatorial signature is su
perfluous. The method of amendment
Is prescribed in the constitution, itself,
and nowhere does the constitution ln-
dicate that the executive, either of
state or nation, has any part in the
procedure.
It Is true that the resolution adopted
by congress submitting the amendment
was signed by the president, and ap
proved by him, and it has likewise
been the practice of many states, both
in ratifying amendments to the federal
constitution and in submitting amend
ments to their own state constitutions,
to send the resolution to the governor
for hia action In the same manner as
other legislative measures. In the
matter of presidential signature the
question 'has never come to a direct
judicial test, but In the matter of the
gubernatorial signature it has been ad
judicated In several states, Including
our own. Governor Deitrlch a few
years ago undertook to veto a resolu
tion for a proposed amendment to the
constitution of Nebraska, but our su
preme court decided that the gov
ernor's action was entirely without au
thority, and that a resolution passing
the legislature by the requisite ma
jorty was all that was necessary to
submit a constitutional amendment for
popular ratification, Irrespective of the
attitude of the governor toward It.
When the president signs a resolu
tion of congress submitting an amend
ment, or where the governor of a state
adds his signature to the resolution of
ratification, no apparent harm is done
even though the signature is superflu
ous. But should the governor of a
state try to block ratification by with
holding his signature from a resolu
tion duly passed by the legislature the
question would be raised, and this sit
uation Is by no means excluded from
the probabilities. Because Alabama
Is the first state to ratify the pending
amendment, and has done it In a par
ticular way, is not conclusive that the
other states must,- do identically the
same.
One Effect of Prosperity.
From the talk about reducing the
effective strength of the army the fact
develops that, irrespective of any de
liberate order for reduction, the army
is likely to fall short of its nominal
numbers by reason of difficulty In se
curing recruits and filling the ranks
depleted by expirations of enlistments.
It has been the observation of mili
tary officers, and fully borne out by
the records, that recruits for the army
come fairly easy in times of industrial
stress, when men are out of work and
discouraged, but suffer, as from a fam
ine, when the country is enveloped in
prosperity and the demand for labor
at good wages Is brisk and unsatisfied.
The army does not offer sufficient In
ducement to attract a man who has a
trade at which be can work for Amer
ican wages any time he pleases, and
at the same time enjoy the privileges
of being his own boss outside of work
ing hours. When the prosperity wave
Is ou it takes all the persuasion that
can be brought into requisition, with
promises of bounty, prizes and other
! concessions, to get recruits at all, and
I at that recruits outside of re-enlist
ments are of questionable character,
hard to hold and contributing largely
to the desertions.
In the nature of- things, then, the
army is likely to be reduced by order
of General Prosperity rather than by
any order of the commander-in-chief
to stop recruiting. Should there be a
call to arms the patriotism of the coun
try would respond as it always has
done, yet not because tf the financial
t
reward offeind to the private soldier,
but In spite of it.
Colonel Saussy is the real spectacu
lar figure In the south If the democ
racy wants a candidate who will draw
the people like a circus. The tolon!
returns with contempt a commission
In the Georgia militia. His policy Is
that he never did and never will taite
an oath of allegiance or wear a blue
uniform, Saussy hss a name to con
jure with and a platform to raise a
row. That Is more than the demo
crats have had for many seasons.
Mr. Harrlman Is sly, devilish sly. He
stool for an Interview and told about
his Improved health and at the mo
ment was ordering oxygen and a kit
of surgeon s tools. We like his steady
spirit, but he really does not act on
the square with the poor gamblers on
the Stock exchange.
To put a stop to slanders the Uni
versity of Chicago has hired a press
agent. Thus another great source of
news Is rudely snatched from the
searchers after truth and the freedom
of the press Is assailed. Mr. Rocke
feller's educational principles must be
scrutinized. .
Governor Johnson sadly confides to
bis friends that he lost his chance
when he missed the nomination last
year. Here Is one place where Bryan
can hit back. What was It that Jolra
son would have won If he had secured
the nomination in 1908?
Magnates were not excited until
they found that the corporation tax
was not intended to mulct, but to reg
ulate and control. Then the powerful
constitutional lawyers came back from
their summer vacations and took up
arras for state rights.
When Joe Blackburn returns from
Panama he will find changes. In fact,
there are reports that he has been at
home all the time, alpplng Juleps on
the veranda. ' There Is no change In
that great public' activity.
Minnesota wants the best expert In
agricultural college work and cares
nothing about the price. Thirty years
ago a boy could not be hired to attend
an agricultural college. Progress has
not jumped the track.
Omaha Is twelfth In the bank clear
ings list. Omaha ought also to be,
and will be in the not too distant
future, twelfth among American cities
ranked in the order of population.
One More Sound Reason.
Kansas City Times.
The thousand-and-one reasons why the
Missouri river should be. navigated have
now been augumentcd by the freight rate
case decision to a total of 1,002.
A Waate of Energy.
St Paul Ploneor Press.
Colonel Bryan announces fhat lie Is
going to raise lemons on his Texas farm.
It seems a waste of time for Colonel
Bryan to raise lemons when he haa al
ways been bo successful In having them
given to him.- .
No "After-Care" Needed.
Chicago Tribune,
In consequence of an accident to his au
tomobile the president of the Great North
ern railway was compelled to sleep one
night lately In a haystack. Let It be
mentioned further, to his credit, that he
slept aa soundly as any other hired man.
Why the World Leans So.
Wall Street Journal.
In less than 100 years coal production
In this country haa Increased from twenty-two
tons to 416,000,000. Figures of
this kind speak for themselves and Illus
trate better than pages of explanations
why the world leans so heavily for sup
port on Uncle Sam.
Bound to Make Good.
Kansas City Star.
President Taft's purpose to ask the con
gress at Its next session to enact the pos
,tals bank law will be fortified by the fact
that the party controlling congress
pledged It and the people sustained that
declaration as against the counter demand
for a guaranty of bank deposits.
Fault Lies with Parents.
Boston Herald.
Why are fraternities and other exclu
sive social organizations In high schools
o hard to destroy? Simply because chil
dren acquire foolish Ideas of social su
periority at home. The fault, apparently
the children's, is really the parents', as
Is so often tin; cast where children have
to take the punishment.
TDK CHI Hill I V AMERICA.
Features of the Census Bulletin on
Hellaloua Organisations.
Boston If laid.
A bulletin to be issued this month will
give the complete result of a government
census of the religious organizations of
this country as they stood three years ago,
a census far mere corrplete, official and
authentic, especially as to the Roman
Catholic church, than any ever taken. It
will show religious adherents In 1904 num
bering nearly 33,000,000; that Is, 39.1 per cent
of the population, as over against 32.7 per
cent In 190. Tho 212.230 local congregations
then owned property In edifices worth a
Ml 'Ion and a quarter dollars, with indebt
edness amounting to only S.6 per cent of
the value. Of the 32,936,146 members or ad
herents of the churches the Protestants
then had 20.2X7,742 and the Itoman Catholics
12.079.142, and of the Protestant sects the
Methodists led with 6,743, S38. the Baptlsu
second with 6,662.234.
This census, for the first time In tho
collection of such statistics, sheds light on
the division of church members as to sex,
ui.d it supports the Indtatment of the
modem church as too preponderantly femi
nine in Its makeup, 60.9 per cent belns
females, the Protestant percentage of males
being S9.3 per cent, the Roman Catholic
percentage 49 3 per cent. Reasons for the
higher Kutnan Catholic percentage are
found, In part at least, in the fact that
many of Its adherents are newcomers n
' th.. e.nii.trY !,,! hv'M n,il tiroiit'tit liltliei
their wives or daughters. Further analysis
of the brief abstract of the statistic h
Interesting. Of the net gain during the
years luno-Wi the Catholic church is credited
with 4 4 per cent and Protestants with I S
per cent. The Increase among Jews must
have been large, making all due allowance
for such defections as follow contact with
the liberalizing American life, for It la
reported that the number of congregations
Increased 231.9 per cent between censuses.
The gala la membership however, is not
reported.
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SERMONS IN SHORT METER.
No man can save man without suffering
with men.
It is hard work growing saints In the
soil of the pit.
No man has a large mission who neglects
the little ministries.
You can measure any man's aspiration
by his perspiration.
Religious forms easily become caskets In
which faith Is buried.
When a man Is ethically wabbly ho la
usually theologically rigid.
Real prayers and real mountains always
put a pick In your mind.
This is a godless world whenever the
divine is all In the past tense.
Greatness of character rises In willing
ness to make small beginnings.
You will not help the man who is look
ing to you by looking at yourself.
There's nothing a lazy man enjoys bet
ter than designing "Busy" signs.
The worst fools are those who worship
a God In the hope of fooling Him.
Some men use the beam in their eye to
pick out the mote In their brother's.
Too many measure their moral sound
ness by the amount of sound they make.
Chicago Tribune,
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT
Washington Herald: An Omaha minis
ter was run down recently by one street
car and three automobiles, but escaped
unhurt. Satan probably has no use what
ever for that style of minister.
tit. Louis Republic: Though there are
more than 3,000,000 members of Christian
churches in the United States it would be
gratifying If the ministers and the home
missionaries could give assurance that
there are that many devout Christians
among us.
Washington Star: ' A prominent English
clergyman is coming to this country in
search of ideas. It may occur to the Brit
ish public that it has had enough books
on America's social system and that it is
about time to send over a few engineers
to get some information about airships
and other modern inventions.
New York World: New York's loss by
the death of Father Ducey is more that
of a public man than a priest. For a
quarter of a century he made St. Leo's
a forum as well as a church, and his sec
ular Influence reached far beyond his par
ish, extending into politics, society and
philanthropy. His was one of the pulpits,
of which New York haa had many, which
attracted hearers from other denomina
tions. A considerable Protestant follow
ing held him in esteem, and the whole
city had reason to acknowledge the sin
cerity of his hostility to financial and po
litical corruption, whether the methods
were those of Tweed or of the newer order
of corporation rascality.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
Ice forms every night in the region where
Walter Wellman summered. '
An unfeeling Judge rules that Jack Blnns
has outlived his wireless fame and may be
pulled off as a moving picture without giv
ing him a mortgage on the nlckelodean till.
That modern magazines fill a sphere of
more or less usefulness is to be Inferred
from a thrilling article in a current number
on "The Wisdom of Traveling with the Cy
clone." Historic Mole St. Nicholas, famed as a
foundry of war stories eleven years ago.
has broken loose again. A cyclone per
formed an extensive surgical operation on
the mole. ' ,
The genius who will devise a means of
canning the present surplus of hot air and
distributing the product at suitable times,
next winter will find a place at the head
of the captains of industry class also a
fortune. j
Governor Frank W. Benson of Oregon Is
not especially fond of his office as chief
executive, and will not be a candidate for
renomination. He desires to return to the
office of secretary of state, which he filled
prior to his elevation to the gubernatorial
chair to succed Governor Chamberlain,
who was elected to the United States
senate.
When President Taft becomes the guest
of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, Sep
tember 14, it is expected that about l'JOO
persons will dine with him, and that 1.0 0
persons will be given seats in the bal
cony of Mechanics' hall. The occasion will
celebrate the consolidation of the Mer
chants' association, the Chamber of Com
merce and the Associated Board of Trade.
In the long roll of humane, sympathetic
paragraphera whose outgivings shed luster
on the American press, only one has been
found so unfeeling as to suggest that, pos
Now Is tho Time to Take in Coal
Our Hard Coal is the D., L. & W. Scranton, the best
coal mined in Pennsylvania, ths same grade we
havs sold in Omaha for twenty-five years. :: ::
Prlctt for early delivery .... $10.50
Spadra, Ark., Anthracite . I . . $ 9.00
Carbon, Nut, Egg and Lump ... $ 6.50
Coufant & Qquiros,
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IMPORTED and AMERICAN
MINKK.AL WA1KKS.
Obtained as direct shipments from the
springs as importer.
Case 12' -gallons Boro-Llthla Wnter,
for W5.00
West Baden Spandel Water, case of 3
dozen quarts 53.50
6-gallon Jug Crystal Llthla Water. . $a
6-gallon Jug Salt-Sulphur water
Buy at either store. We sell over 100
kinds mineral water.
Sherman & McCo.inell Drug Go.
Sixteenth and IKnle Sts.
Owl Drug Co.
Sixteenth and Harney Hta.
sibly, Mr. Harrlman $ook an Indigestible
railroad into his system.
The late Rev. Thomas J. Ducey of ml
Leo's church, New York, was a rare char
acter, both as priest and man. Itlrh In
worldly goods, a fashionable dresser and u
host whose Invitations were coveted, his
hardest blows were directed at the rich,
and most of his own means were given Ik
the poor. Unique among Ills deliverance
in press and pulpit was the "Millionaires'
Lord's Prayer," which reads: "My Father,
who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom has come on earth; Ttiy will
be done in heaven; my will be done hero.
Give me this day all the Income I want.
Give me my debts In violence against hu
manity, In foreclosures agulnst my debt
ors. Deliver us this day from all the "isms"
that destroy our power to enslave human
ity. Mine Is the kingdom and the power,
and Thine be the glory, forever. Amen."
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
He You know, Clara, about the diamond)
engagement ring I want to give you, dla
nionds have gone up so
She Oh, you dear boyl How sweet of!
you to want to mako sacrifices to prova
your Jove! Baltimore American.
"Bllggins used to say he admired a cling
ing woman. Old he marry one?"
"Yes. She hangs on to every cent of him
salary." Washington Star.
"Yes," said Clurence, "I proposed to her
on shipboard while the steamer was going
twenty knots an hour." .
"What was her answer?"
"Well, it was brief, but it was er at the
rate of about sixty 'nots' a minute." Chi
cago Tribune.
Mother How dared you let hlin kiss
you?
Daughter I didn't mamma. I told him
that if he kissed me he'd have to do It
without my consent. Boston Transcript.
"Hubby, I haven't hud u new dress for
a month."
"Times are slow with mc, my dear. Bet
ter go In for literature and pretend to be
superior to the fashions." Louisville Courier-Journal.
"It was Charles Keade. wasn't It, who
wrote: 'Nothing is so terrible as a fool?' "
"Yes, but he was wrong. I live next
door to the newly married couple. If Chares
could see them he would at once admit
that two fools are even mure terrible."
Chicago liecord-Herald.
Tha Judge Person You mean to say that
this physical wreck gave you a black eye?
The Lady Yes, but he wasn't a physical
wreck until h gave me the black eye.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
"What's the matter?"
"I'm In the soup."
"How's that?"
"(iladys says there Is an obstacle to ouf
marriHge."
"Pshaw, that's no reason for saying you
are In the soup."
"But she says It is insuperable." Hous
ton Post.
FATHER, TAKE MY HAND.
Author Unknown.
I am so tired, Father; all the way
The path has grown more difficult and
steep;
I grojie and stumble as the shadows
creep
Closer about me, and the light of day
laili a Into darkness over all the land;
Quick tears brim iny eyes. I cannot see
Thy face. In tender skies, bent over me,
I am so helpless, Father, take my hand.
CllnKlng to Thee I will not fear the nlKht,
Though It be long, and though the way
be hard.
With no bright glimpses of Thy golden
starred. Fair h' avens. Though I si e no light.
If I may feel my hand held close in Thine,
Father, I will be lirave. and bear the pain
Of this long night of sorru. till attain
Shall dawn the morning In this soul of
mine.
Yea, even though the weary night shall
last
ThroiiTh all iny earthly years, yet will I
if.
My hand 111 Thine, nor
murmur. Lord, nor
wi ep,
I If Thou wilt In the darkness hold me fast,
Until my journev thicuth the shadow laud
I Is over, and I -hall behold the light
t)f that f.ilr cltv where theie Is no night.
And enter ih re s.lll huMlng Thy dear huud.
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