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14 THE HEP?: OMAHA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1009. ThiT omaiia Daily Bet FOUNDED BT EDWARD nOSE WATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Fntwred at Omtht postofflcs second rlass matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Illy Pes (without Sunday) ons year. .$4 00 lally Ufa and Sunday, ona year DELIVERED UV CARRIER. Iallv He tlncludlng- Pundav). per week..r: Dally He (without Hunds) ). per week. .10c Evening; Be (without bunday). par week 'u Kveriir Hea. (with Hunday;, per week 10c funday Ftee, ona year i Saturday Uea, one year Address all complaints of Irrf jularltiea In (Jellvery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha-Tha Bee Buildln. fi'uth Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs 15 Krott HtreeL Mnrnlnfil Utile Building. Chicago 1MX Marquette building. New York Roome 1101-UOJ No. S4 West Thirty-third Street. ... Washington 72i Fourteenth Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. ' Communlratlona relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Uee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Ree l-ubtlshlng Company. Only 1-cent stamps rereived In payment or mall account. reraotAl checks, except n Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of 'Nsbraska, Douglas County, ee.! Ueorge B. Tiachuck. treaaurer of The Hce publishing Company, being duly Horn, aaya that the actual number of full and complete roples of The Dnliy. Morning. Evening and Funday Bee printed during the month of August, 190S, waa aa follows 1 , ...39,00 I . . .41,600 t 41,470 4 41,830 E 41,770 ,...41,640 7 41,791 S 38,900 41,933 10; 41,990 11 41,943 12 ....41.870 ia 43,030 14 .41,400 IS 40,000 17 41,780 IS 43,530 1 4190 2(1 41.810 21 41,830 22 40,000 23 48,850 24 41,770 25 48,680 2 41,700 27 41,730 28 48,170 29 40,000 30 41,910 SI 48.190 II 41,680 Total 1,889,410 Returned coplea 10,381 Net total... 1,879,089 Dally average 41,858 CEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Bubscrlbed In my preesnee and aworn to before me this 1st day of September, 190. . , M. P. WALKER. Notary Public. ' Sabacrlbere leaving th city tem porarily should have The Be malle to them. Address mill be ha Bared aa often aa relocated. It will not be long now before the Eagles begin nesting In Omaha. Never tnlnd. Mr. Taft starts In two weeks and we shall all know where the administration Btands.. The discovery of the North pole will give the text book makers another chance for a trade on school geogra phies. Aeroplanes are Quoted at 12,000 now and $760 for delivery in 1911. No 1911 models for far-sighted fan ciers. Milwaukee aches for a forest re serve. Probably Milwaukee wishes to raise cooperage stock and make it all at home. Which reminds us that the festive oyster may now disport himself with out fear of colliding with the pure food Inspectors. China had to pay $5,000,000 to get back the Hankow concession. Civil ization by peaceful means is China's heaviest expense. The Iowa state fair seems to be play ing In a streak of bad luck. Here's hoping that Nebraska's Impending state fair is better favored'. The democratic World-Herald pre tends to favor nonpartlsanshlp on the bench. Which of the three republican nominees for the supreme bench Is It going to support? Next year the president will try to visit Alaska. It Is not believed that he will Inspect the North Pole until his next administration surrounds It with a reliable cinder path. The weather man informs us that the month of August in Omaha was the hottest ever except alone August, 1874. How many of you recall Au gust, 1874, In OraahaT Washington visitors still make those remarks at New York hotels about the beauties of Puget Sound, yet they can' not agree on whether it Is Mount Ta coma or Mount Rainier. Frost has arrived In Vermont, but the maple sugar market Is not dls turbed. The returns from the tourist trade have been good. A large pro cession went north by the Beverly route. For consumptives the health de partment of New York insists on the hard work cure. The patients will strike at the first trial of women car penters and men In the open air at 10 degrees below. If there Is anything of compliment in It, please take note that by the off! tlal canvass Frank L. Haller of Omaha received the highest vote polled for any candidate for any office in Ne braska's last primary election. Sir J. J. Thomson, the presiding rclentlst of Great Britain, sees no reason why fuel direct from the. sun should not run all the machinery In the world. Most, of us agree with Sir John and let the question drop there. With the postoffice deficit refusing to diminish, Postmaster General Hitchcock Is Inclined to believe that the customers in his line want too mucb. for their money. Most mercan tile managers have to deal with that tendency. Dr. Cook'i Return. In spite of tile skepticism with which the news of Cook s success in reaching the North pole has been re ceived in Europe, later consideration gives preponderance to the circum stantial evidence In Its favor. It turns out that Dr. Cook has a large personal acquaintance among explor ers. His reputation Is familiar to all who follow the subject. The uni versal testimony is that his character Is high and his temperament of the sort which would understate rather than exaggerate his performance. The Danish government Is acting as If there were no doubt. Its officials In the north send In reports which bear the appearance of taking it as a mat ter of course. If Dr. Cook has succeeded he hss, as In such a task a man must, com bined extraordinary precautions with much good luck. He endeavored to avoid all errors of the past, cultivated the closest relations with the strange little Esqulmos, who seem to have been of the greatest use, followed the easiest routes and wasted the least time. We cannot yet tell the value of the one serious ground of doubt. That Is the time consumed In his last dash. Twelve miles a day U beyond the experience of previous Arctic ex plorers. As Shackleton says In his quiet, restrained way of speech, that is not a fatal objection, but only points to an unprecedented speed In such a country. According to his financial ally, the result was figured out beforehand and came out ac cording to expectations. This has been true of all expeditions, but he fact adds to the probability that this is the one out of many which has reached the goal. Cook Evidently had advice from Greely and used the Oreely route and the trail of Lieu tenant Colonel Brainard. Dr. Cook is now on the mainland of Denmark and ready to report to the sovereign. If there Is any doubt left today ought to forever settle It pro or con. All authorities, including Abruzzl and Shackleton, agree in dismissing as absurd the suggestion that Cook could have been mistaken in thinking that he really was at th& pole when he was not. It would have been ridiculous for a sane man to make the attempt without Instruments which would with exactitude have located the spot. Brainard was turned back by exceedingly rough Ice. Cook may have had the good fortune to strike a more favorable condition of be ice and a better posted company of Esqulmos. We shall learn all that In a short time. If It has not already been learned In Denmark. As to the Jurisdiction over the body of land around the pole, It is probably American by discovery, but the pos session has only a sentimental value. The United States will have Its name in the geographies and on the charts and little more of marketable worth Primary Sidelights. The official canvass of the votes cast at -the .recent state-wide primary in Nebraska gives the republican iiom- ination for the third place for supreme judge to Jacob L. Fawcett of Omaha over Francis G. Hamer of Kearney by a plurality of 357 votes. Judge Fawcett in this, his home county, where he is best known, shows up a handsome plurality of 1,001 over Judge Hamer, and, therefore, owes his nomination in point of fact to his friends and neighbors In Omaha and Douglas county. In Buffalo county, where Judge Hamer resides, he naturally ran ahead of his outside competitors and scored a plurality over Judge Fawcett of 382 votes. Deducting from the totals the home counties of these two candidates the remaining vote would be 13,989 for Judge Hamer and 13,727 for Judge Fawcett, giving the nomination to Judge Hamer by 262.' Incidentally the vote on these two candidates In Lincoln should not be overlooked. Lancaster county gave Judge Hamer 2,194 votes and Judge Fawcett 1,740 votes, although there was no special reason why republicans In Lancaster county should prefer a candidate residing In Buffalo county over a candidate residing In Douglas county, other things being equal, or If anything more favorable to the candi date from Douglas county. Deducting the vote of Lancaster county, as well as the votes from the two home coun ties of these two candidates, would leave the total 11,795 for Judge Hamer and 11,987 for Judge Fawcett, and would give Judge Fawcett the nomina tion by 192 votes. Putting the two borne counties back and deducting Lancaster county's vote would, make the totals 14,400 for Judge Hamer and 15,211 for Judge Fawcett, giving Judge Fawcett the nomination by 811. Vocational Schools. Prof. W. M. Hays of the Depart ment of Agriculture Is a confident and outspoken exponent of the idea of consolidated agricultural schools and of training in the mechanic arts. ' The department has just issued a bulletin by Prof. Hays which treats the ques tion of training for country life. Among other passages which will have widespread attention is this: The plan of establishing a aystem of large agricultural high schools ia gaining popular favor. There is good reason tu expect that we shall have a clasa of high- grade secondary schools providing voca tional finishing con ires for those who, tx- pvcting to live on farms, will close their school life with from two to four years of vocational high school work. The won- drful success of the Minnesota, Nebraska Wlscontpln and other agricultural hlsh school glvea assurance that such schools will receive extensive practical trial anil use. On the town side of education Prof. Hays speaks of the-practical utility of providing technical schools which will supply from our native children a class of young men trained in the higher grades of technical trade skill. Instead of depending as we are begin ning to do on the graduates of foreign technical schools which can furnish, ready-made, the necessary and highly paid superior workers In demand at the mills and other places of con structive industry. The thought is that the public school must be something more than a recitation place for lower-grade pu pils. The bulletin suggests that there are 300,000 small schools, more than half of which can be consolidated. It may be practicable that 200,000 could be systematized Into 30,000 consoli dated rural schools. The suggestion goes on to join the sixty agricultural colleges In the country to a system of 300 or 400 agricultural finishing schools, each of them either separate or part of an existing institution. The fundamental principle Is that the day Is coming for training the youth of both sexes in those things that will help them to make a living In other vocations than the professions. Prof. Hays looks upon the collegiate grade of American instruction as well enough organized to warrant a belief that its development is assured. Ef fort is needed now In strictly voca tional schools. He Is a friend of the agricultural high school bill 'now be fore congress and quite properly counts on this bulletin to be a help In the progress of the legislation. Unfortunate. In harking back to the year 1895 for some campaign material for the year 1909 the democratic World Herald is unfortunate. The year 1895 is the year that the World-Herald went back on the citi zens' movement for reform in city gov ernment and supported the A. P. A. ticket bearing the republican label. The year 1895 Is the year after the campaign in which the World-Herald sold part of its editorial page to the republican state committee in betrayal of its own party ticket. The year 1895 Is also the same year in which the World-Herald sold out to the silver bulllonalres to switch from an honest ratio of coinage to the dis honest ratto of 16 to 1. The year 1895 is an unfortunate one in World-Herald history. Toymakers of Nuremberg. Most Americans have read some thing of Nuremberg and its toy in dustry, but few are well Informed on the unique and Interesting work that makes the town the toy center of the world. The American consul there in a recent report touches some of the customs of the quaint city, said to be in appearance the most medieval large place in Germany. It produces metal toys In Infinite variety, tin soldiers, toy engines, magic lanterns, musical toys, rattles, puzzles, clocks, dolls and almost everything of the kind made for the I amusement of children. There are a half dozen factories, the trade em ploying 12,000 men and women, half being women. Besides the large fac tories there are vast numbers of small ones, consisting of a family and one or two assistants. The tin toys are mostly cut out by machinery, run by girls and women. The workshops have, or pretend to have, trade se crets. They are closely guarded and It is difficult to gain admittance. The girl workmen earn about 6 cents an hour and the men about 10 cents. For 1908 the total value Is esti mated at $4,000,000, about 25 per cent less than In 1907. The panic in the United States reduced the trade. Toys were exported all over the world, but considerably more than one-third went to the United States. Of the en tire German toy export the United States and Great Britain took In 1907 more than one-half. The estimates for this '-ear are not considered favor able by the manufacturers. Except the largest factories, the concerns do not export directly "to the United States or to any other coun try. The export business is in the hands of commission merchants, who attend to packing and shipping and assume all risks of collection. In addition to toys proper, there are mar bles and rubber balls. Last year $21, 160 worth of marbles were bought In Nuremberg. More than three and one half times as many celluloid toys were sent to the United States In .1908 as In 1907, but rubber balls dropped in value from $22,000 to $7,627. That Is an Incident of toy fashions. The story of the toymakers of Nu remberg goes over many years and recalls the face-to-face struggle of Gustavus Adolphus and Wallensteln before Its walls and the prolonged se ries of losses which finally led to the burghers giving the town to Bava ria. It Is an odd Industry in an odd city, which has one of the most thrill ing histories In Germany. Our creamery men rise In protest against the 60-cent butter fake which some yellow journal factionlst has been spreading broadcast in and out from Omaha. Omaha has also been suffer ing from much unearned notoriety from the yarn about the order requir ing a spike-tall coat and white trous ers for the Taft banquet evidently ema nating from similar sources. Omaha wants publicity, but not publicity of that sort. The candidate who ran for State university regent on the populist ticket only, and without opposition, re ceived just 2,966 votes at the recent primary in Nebraska. The highest vote on the democratic ticket was 22, 906, so that on this basis the ratio of the ftmldn combination Is a Utile) bet ter than 7 to 1. We wonder how much longer the democrats will Insist on masquerading ss populists Our amiable democratlo contempo rary, the World-Herald, has finally found something written by the late Edward Rosewster which It quotes with approval. At the time it was written, and all through his life, the World-Herald was reviling him and baiting him in much the same manner as It la treating the present editor of The Bee. It never saw anything good "In the standards thus laid down by Edward Rosewater" when he was alive, and it was contin uously portraying him as trying "to build up a political machine for the advancement of his own fortunes," and accusing The Bee of having "fallen Into degenerate days." It was only after he had passed away that the World-Herald discovered his good traits and personal self-sacrifice, Which other people had recognized all the time. The total vote polled at the recent state-wide primary in Nebraska slightly overtops 93,000. The total vote polled In Nebraska at the election last No vember was, in round figures, 271,500. The number of voters participating In the primary is almost exactly one-third of the number of voters who had a right to participate in it. Mr. Bryan's Commoner makes room for an article, "Why I Prefer Eng land," by an American millionaire. Do they? We thought England was the land of free trade and an income tax, and several other things which Mr. Bryan has been preaching as an anti dote to millionaires. . Kentucky paid $500 for a man to make burgoo at a barbecue. Every Kentucky man asserts that he can make burgoo. The price quoted indi cates that the mint-Julep makers have all through the years been bluffers, except as to the whisky and water. "Fiddler Bob" Taylor is credited with having made a quarter of a mil lion in the Chautauqua business. It's a wonder that the senator gave the snap away. There are many good old time fiddlers In Tennessee, and few have made half the money. New York democrats are rehabili tating, revivifying, regenerating and restoring the party. The old beast of burden needs too much patching to take on new wood. Just meet and go home. Nebraska can do all that needs to be done. Beyond the Averaite Reach. Chicago Tribune. The trouble with all these schemes for editing Uncle Joe Cannon out of the next congress is that the voters down Danville way are the gentlemen who wield the blue pencil. A Marine Political Picture. Minneapolis Journal. The spectacle of Mr. rtryan going hope- fi.lltr mnA InantUtf tA wnrk to U'tn the nrpsl- ientia election of 112 on the free trade Issue, Is enough to make the old leaders of the democracy, like Roger Mills, wonder whether the world Is coming round to them, or whether they are moving again. Enough for Oae Day's .Marveling;. Kansas City Times. But an American, a dauntless soul from the youngest of the great nations of a world Inconceivably old, has penetrated the loneliest region that lies beneath the sky for the first time since that world's Immeasurable age began. And that thought Is large enough for one day's marveling. Steadily Vttn- Together. Wall Street Journal. That capital and labor are gradually ar riving at a better understanding of their mutual obligation to each other and realis ing the futility of unnecessary friction la evidenced by the report of the AnthYaclte Conciliation board, showing only twenty three grievances In three years, as com pared with 160 In the preceding years. Pennsylvania Only Shocked. Philadelphia Press. The train robbery In the Lewlstown Nar rows, on the Pennsylvania railroad, forty six miles weet of Harrisburg, will startle every passenger and shipper In the state. We are familiar with these wild west per formances In Texas and Wyoming, but that one should occur In this state gives a painful shock of aurprlse and dismay. Should Be Heavily Taxed. New York World. Wall street gambling Is pernicious In Its effect on Industry. It should be stopped If that cannot be done It should be taxed. A traffio so vast as to give to voluntary association In one exchange a value of $xi.000,000 should not escape taxation, leav ing men's homes and tnduatrlea to bear the burden. On the possibly 3 per cent of legitimate Investment In stock sales the tax Is a trifle. On matched sales and gambling business a heavier tax should prove, If paid, a wholesome check. POLITICAL DRIFT. The Connecticut legislature put In eight solid months on the public payroll. What good It accomplished la not mentioned In the valedictories. James It. Garfield, son of the late Presi dent Garfield, may be nominated by the republicans of Ohio to make the race against Governor Harmon, whom the demo crats will nominate fur a second term. The $0,000 Quay statue, sculptured for the state of Pennsylvania, has been shipped to the state capital by the aculptor, to gether with the bill. The atatue has been in storage for months and Is likely to adorn a dark corner of the famous state house. The Huananda club of New York, com posed of political associates of the Tam many boxs, Charles F. Murphy, pulled off a social outing one day this week, and managed to dispose of 1,000 lobsters, 14.0)0 clams, 1,400 ears of corn, TOO boiled porgles, 2.000 cigars and liquids to match. It was an average eating day, too. The dispatch from Heveriy, printed Friday" morning, In which President Taft repu diated a report regarding his relations with the Minnesota congressional delegation, was provoked by a spurious telegram writ ten by a member of the staff of the St. Paul Pioneer Press and printed as genuine In the Gat-ky papers. When the managers discovered the trick the writer of the bogus telegram shut over the transom and is likely to stand up to his mtala fur a fen days In Other Lands Ida X.lf ate o What ta Traaa. plrlaa; Amonf the Beer and rar Jtetloee of the Berth. Germany has not been as fortunate as the United States In securing an Increase of Income from Its new revenue law. The new tariff law of the United States has been In operation a month and the cus toms revenue show a marked Increase compared with the same period of last year. No appreciable gain In revenue has been rioted In Germany. The reason marks the difference In the two laws. One Im poses taxea directly, the other Indirectly. Anticipating the Increased tax on prime necessities thrifty German householders stocked up to the limit of their means. Until these supplies are exhausted the treasury of the empire will not feel the swelling preasure of Increased revenue. The direct effect of the new taxes on prices Is seen In an advance of 6 cents a pound on coffee; matches, hitherto sold for t cents for ten boxes, are now quoted at 7 cents, and white beer, a popular drink In Merlin, advanoed from 1 to 4 cents a glass. Al though many taxpayers have been congrat ulating themselves on their forehandedness In laying In large supplies, excise officers throughout the empire are taking care that no Individual anywhere shall escape pay ing his share of the national deficit of 1126,00,000. House to house visitations have begun and everyone possessing more than a stipulated amount of taxable goods is bound to pay a certain duty acoordlng to the new scale. Travelers entering Germany, who have hitherto been able to avoid the customs, will no longer be able to do so, for all excise regulations are now being carefully enforced. Two profissor of the University of Chi cago, T. C. Chamberlain and Ernest He witt Burton, penetrated 1.G00 miles Into the Interior of China and tell In the Chlcajo News some amaxlng things they saw. The city of Chentu, In the middle kingdom, Is as far from the coast as Chicago, has streets as clean as those of Berlin and cleaner than the streets of Paris. The lighting system Is as good as that of the average oity In America. The streets are gone over carefully or.ee a day with brooms handled by coolies, who pack the dust In bags snd carry It away. There Is a law prohibiting beggars from plying their calling on the streets and the law Is en forced. Vagran's are sent to the work house, where they are taught the rudi ments of a trade and then forced to make an honest living. There has been a revi sion of the educational system at Chentu. Old structures that were used for the obsolete methods have been superseded by modern buildings In which Is given up-to- date Instruction in mining, engineering and other practical branches. The Chicago pro fessors had an opportunity to mingle with the typical Chinamen of the country hack from the coast. Most travelers only see the Inhabitants of the seaboard and there Is a vast difference. Prof. Burton says the coolies who come to America are no more representative of the educated Chi nese than an Ignorant slave of the ante bellum days would be of the average Amer ican. Prof. Chamberlain looks for the de velopment of better military organization In China, In which case he thinks it will be a nation for the world to fear. That Ireland has touched the rock bottom of economic misery and Is firmly on the upgrade Is attested by returning summer tourists and correspondents. John A. Arch- bold of the Standard Oil company,, after motoring through the country, came away with the belief that the condition of the people Is greatly Improved. John D. Crlm- mlns of New York saw the same signs of uplift. An Australian Journalist and a member of the staff of the Philadelphia North American writes cheerlngly of thi progress of the Island from chronic poverty to prosperity and independence, for which favorable land laws and home ownership are primarily responsible. The countess of Aberdeen, wife of the lord lieutenant, who has the prosperity of Ireland very much at heart, writes In a British publication that the marked growth of tourist travel Is help In the Island along, and this Is due mainly to the large number of wives and children of Irishmen In America who now visit the "old country" every summer, not only to escape the heat at home but to satisfy their natural Interest In the homes of their an cestors. It is very possible that In the future this tourist travel from America will prove an important source of revenue to the Inhabitants and be a great factor in developing the resources of the Island. With the rapidly Increasing wealth of the Irish race In the United States, not to men tion the British colonies, the desire for trvel will assert Itself more and more; and It Is likely that every person having any Irish blood whatever would wish to visit the historic habitat of the Irish people. In his general orders for an advance on the Riff trlbea warring on the Span lards at Melius, General Marina recalls the achievements on the same field of a famous Spaniard of Irish descent, Leopold O'Donnell, count of Lucena, and duke of Tetuan, In 1S59-C0, General Marina calla upon his troops to emulate the bravery of the soldiers of O'Donnell: ""Spain has Its eyea on you and gives you Its eneour ment. It asks you to prove you are the heirs of the heroes who half a century ago placed your flag In Tetuan, bore It victorious through the Valley of Cas tlllejos, along the bed of the Ttlver Mar tin, over the rough mountains of Wad Ras." The decisive battle In the previous campaign waa fought at Wad Ras on the Tangier road,- and the rout of the Moors waa complete. The officers particularly distinguished themselves In that war. Mr. Hardmun, an Kngllsh correspondent In the field with O'Donnell, says that most of the officers killed were shot through the head or neck while sitting erect on horse back and leading their troops. The sol drers seem to have been worthy of their officers, and the war, which had been de manded by a Jingo press, closed In a blaze of glory for all concerned. ' - William Allan White Is back In Emporia, after a four months' vacation on the high ways and byways of Europe, firmly con vinced that there la nothing the matter with Kansas, even though It may be some what raw In spots. In his offhand re marks to the -home folks he summarized the Impression foreign travel makes on the average American. "I'll tell you why things are more finished In Europe than America," he said. "It's because labor la the greatest bargain In Europe. That's a poor bargain In any country. But cheap labor in Europe builds a finished country, which the Idle rich enjoy. ' "Can ou imagine a self-respecting Kan sas farmer going around grabbing his hat all the time to a man who has no other distinction except that he happened to have a white shirt? Over all Europe a man that works with his hands forever Is put ting his fingers to his cap or pulling his hat off. He has a servile attitude, and the finest thing In the world I found when coining back to America was the American farmers and workmen who looked you squarely In the eye and kept their hands in their pockets ami who Indicate by their general atiituiie that if you dun't like their stjlu you can go straight up." A Dank Whose Loans Are Largely confined to business houses handHng marketable merchan dise. It has always been the policy of this bank to support Omaha merchants in every way con sistent with the safe handling of its depositors' funds. We particularly solicit the accounts of merchants. First National Bank of Omaha MIRTHFUL REMARKS. 'Ever play poker, sir?" "No. It's too much like my regular busi ness." "How do you mean?" "Drawing and filling. I'm a dentist." Boston Transcript. "What sort of role does Rounder take In the new drama?" "An emotional one. In the hg scene he Is offered a drink which he has to refuse." Detroit free Press. "Did you ever attend a meeting that hud been called to pray for rain?" once. Well, did It rain?" "Yes, but the grocers and butchers held a plcnlo on the same day, and I've never been quite able to to come to any decision In my mind about It, you know." Chicago Tribune. Patience I see Salome has gone to Eu rope and taken eighteen trunks with her. Pa trice She'll have a lot of duty to pay. "Why?" "Because persons always have to nav ditty on clothes they haven't worn." Yonk- ers statesman. "Big demand, I a'pose, for ragtime music." "There Is." "Ever sell any classical music these days?" "Oh, yes. Everybody wants a little to stand on the piano." lia tlmore American. "She's a delicate eater. Isn't she" ' Very. She even Insists upon having the eggs from one hen. "Cleveland Plain Dealer. Man with Valise I am going to the an nual reunion of the Smith family. Do I get excursion rates? Ticket Seller Not this year. The John School Suits Have the boy start the term right, buy him a Brown ing, King & Co. suit, then he will be sure he's right and will go ahead. Our line this season is the largest and best we have ever shown. Boys' clothing made our way is bound to wear longer than cheap stuff, just tacked together to sell. When you buy his suit, don't think of indoors and how well he will take care of it. Think of the play ground and get the suit that will stand the strain. If you try to do it for less than $5.00 you'll have to do it twice, and that's costly. New furnishings and hats for the boys. "Holeproof Hosiery" for men and women. 'Browning.King & Cq BoK W CLOTHING, FIFTEENTH V R. S. WILCOX, Manager. To Quickly Dispose of 100 Piaoos occupying the space we are about to re-floor and redeco rate, we have concluded to place low values on at least 100 pianos to get them moved. Thee instruments are all in fine shape, rebuilt, reflnlsbed and your opportunity to secure a beautiful bargain. OVER TWENTY DIFFERENT MAKES . ARE REPRESENTED Including Stetnway, Knabe, Corl, Hallet & Davis, King, Kim ball, Kranlch & Bach, Schubert, Vose, Strauss, Ellington, Burton, Cable-Nelson, Cramer, Imperial and many others. To assist and simplify matters for our customers we have adopted the "GROUP" plan of marking dividing the stock into four grops: GItOl P A About 30 pianos in various woods, including mahogany, walnut and oak. Each used piano has been thoroughly re built at our factory, and is fully guaranteed. The price of every piano in this group will be 0165 oitorr c Embraces 26 pianos well know makes In modern casu designs, fine In touch and torn, and thoroughly dependable lu every respect. We have priced these at 0225 It will never be necessary for the purchaser of any of the pianos enumerated above to apologize for Its ownership. Students In MunIc d"Mrlng a thoroughly fine piano for studio purposes should closely Inquire into these pianos. NOTE- Those not wishing to pay the entire amount at time of purchase can arrange liberal terms for payment. The best selection awaits those who come first. A. HOSPE CO., 1513 Douglas Street WE IK) EXPKItT PIAXO Tl'MNG AM) KKI'AIHING. iSMMiisMssaBVUIIsMfltliiBBBCMs J if Wit- If ii 3 fib! sons are claiming that It Is an unjust and unfair discrimination. Chicago Tribune. Customer (with a sigh) Good peaches come so high. Grocer Boy Yes'm; when they pack 'em they slways put the best 'uns at the top. Chicago Tribune SIPTLMBEJi. Detroit Free Tress. Apples ripe for pressln' In th' cider mill once more. Ears o' corn fer huskln' lyln' heaped upon th' floor; Fields ablaze with color, shlnln' gold an' russet brown. An' shadows grow In' longer when th' sun Is gln' down; An' th' oid world smllln' brightly at us children, while we reap The harvest she has brought us Jes' afore she goes to sleep. Barns are fairly groanln' with th' good things that they hold, Apples In th' cellar for th" time when nights are cold; Nature's work Is over, there Is nolhin' left to do, She la restin' now, an' smllln', underneath th' akles o' blue; She Is restin' now, an' happy. While her children gather in The fruits of all her labors, Flllin' granary an' bin. When I come to my September, an' my worklji' days are done, May I sit awhile a dreamin' an' a noddin' In th' aun, While my children play around me as life's shadders longer grow: May I see their smllln' faces till it comes my time f go. An' as Mother Earth, contented, May I sink unto my rest. With my children well provided, Knowin' I have don'e my best. FURNISHINGS AND HATS, and DOUGLAS STREETS', OMAHA. GKOI I' II Comprint, 4 4 instruments of ' "Mpniifaetiire, In excellent condition, Including several ne pianos, some of which are man ufacturers' sample Instruments. Some rare bargains exist In this group. All at the same price $185 GKOl ! I) Twenty fine quality pianos. Each and every one would fully answer the requirements of those whose musical needs de mand the best, and represent values tar in excess of the price $235