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STATEMENT Of CIRCULATION.
Stat of Nebraska. Douulas county, an
Ueorge B. Tzschuck. treasurer of The
Doe Publishing ComDanv. belna duly aworn
aaya that the actual number of full and
complete conies of The Dally. Morning
Evening and Sunday Be printed during the
month of May. 11)10, waa aa follows:
1 41,300
17 43,880
X 48,460
1 48,880
4 42,810
1 42,680
8 43,840
1 48,880
1 41,370
1 43,150
10 43,880
11 43.570
U 49,600
II 43,030
14 40,850 ,
K 41,600
1 43,110
II 43,030
11 43,880
10 43,000
U 43,000
12 41,460
11 43,740
84 43,830
II 43,000
21 43,370
17 43,400
21 43,650
II 41,800
10 43,370
II 44.180
Total I,3f8,810
Returned ooplee 6,886
Nat Total l,3vS,83S
Dally Average 48,368
GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK,
Treasurer,
Subscribed In my preaenc and aworn to
error mo tnia am day or May, luiu.
M. P. WALKER,
Notary Public
Subscriber leaving tk city tem
porarily should have) Th Be
mailed te them. Addresses will b
changed aa often, a re tested.
Nobody has dared call him Bwana
Tumbq since be returned.
George Washington never told a lie
and James J. Hill admits be never did.
Next.
One virtue In this fast-fleeting pace
of ours nothing has time to become
monotonous.
My goodness, last Sunday was
Fathers' day and we forgot to, tell him.
Poor old dad.
Even Jack Binns, who saved the
ship, is in the has-beens class of fame
How soon we forget.
The statesmen who have been so
journing in Washington will now come
marching home again.
Can you Imagine "Uncle Joe" in the
next congress on the floor trying to
catch the speaker's eye?
An eastern man recently died from
the peck of a hen. Yet we continue to
ask who rules the roost.
Where grows the sunflower? asks
Walt Mason. - In Kansas,' with an
overflow into Nebraska.
A Los Angeles couple were recently
married on horseback, which ought to
give them a quick start on life's race
track.
Mosquitoes are said to be so bad at
the Atlantic seashore resorts that
open-work hose are entirely out of
style. Pshaw.
After fifteen months' of strenuous
resting in Africa, the colonel took one
day off and then Jumped into the thick
of his private work.
Now the kaiser's knee is out of com
mission. Well, we can ring in the
crown prince to cover his base until
his knee cornea around all right-
There are 7,123 national banks do
ing business in the United States. That
Is almost two-thirds as many as the
number of automobiles in the state of
Nebraska.
In Ireland widows and spinsters may
vote, and most of them care so little
idoui toe nsui urn mey win ex
change it most any day for the proper
sort of man.
"Pikes peak or bust loses all its
grim glamor when we hear that they
are building a smooth boulevard from
Kansas to that eminent eminence in
the Rockies.
' ;
Of course, while the colonel has de
termined not to speak in public for
two months, writing his views in let
ters might not be regarded as a viola
tion of the rule of silence.
Down In Memphis the color line is
drawn to exclude negroes from two
publio parks. Negroes who live In
this land of comparative freedom from
race prejudice can hardly realize what
they have to be thankful for.
No wonder the prosecution lost in
the case against Cleveland's golden
rule chlef-of-pollce when it dropped
thirteen of its original twenty-three
charges. But the chief's acquittal
must be accepted In the best of faith
seriously, for he run the gauntlet of
two weeks' hearing, involving the tes
timony of 200 witnesses.
A Record-Breaker.
baterer political opponents or
critics nay say, President Taft has the
word of history to support the claim
that no president since Abraham Lin
coln ever accomplished, or persuaded
congress to accomplish, as much ac
tual business in the first sixteen
months of his term as he has done
The adjournment of congress marks a
record-breaking record In the history
of. congresses so far as volume of con
structlve legislation goes, and that Is
what we have come to conceive to be
the function of congress,
Two months ago a lot of impatient
people were certain most of the prin
clpal measures which the president
and the party had pledged to enact
would never get through this congress.
Among these measures were the rail
road bill, the bills for statehood, postal
savings, issuance of certificates of In
debtedness for reclamation and other
conservation measures, extending the
activities of the tariff board and the
campaign fund publicity bill, and yet
every one is written upon the statute
books, and it is there because and by
reason of the fact that the president
forced congress to such a unity of ac
tion as would get them there. The
personal equation of the president has
figured ss the dominant influence in
this congress and it is well for the
country that it has. Go back sixty
days and subtract from the delibera
tions the faithful direction and per
sistent prodding of the president and
leave the two houses divided on politi
cal and factional lines and determine
for yourself how much of this legisla
tion, promised by the party in power
and demanded by the people, we would
have today.
William Howard Taft has revealed
a new side of his character in his lead
ership of congress. He has applied
the rod with vigor at times and spoken
softly at other times, commanding al
ways and conciliating when necessary,
and, by a most fortunate combination
of tactful elements which few men in
his position have possessed to a more
practical degree, getting results. And
the country is the gainer by It. It Is
a personal triumph for the president
but a distinct victory for his party, be
cause it represents a scrupulous ful
Ailment of pledges to the people.
Not all this legislation may be the
best that could be framed, but all has
enough good in it to make the best for
the time and the circumstances. The
tariff law, against which many have
railed, chiefly In ignorance of its ac
tual content, is not Ideal, as the presl
dent himself admits, but it is raising
about $40,000,000 in revenue a year
more than the Dlngley law produced
and through the operation of a max!
mum and minimum schedule has
secured the admission of about 60 per
cent of our exports to foreign ports
free of duty and '95 per cent of those
dultable under the minimum rates in
these respective countries.
It is hard to conceive of intelligent
voters falling to appreciate and ap
prove the party and its leaders respon'
slble with the president for these laws,
for this congress of strenuous activity
and efficient service, beside whose ac
tual achievements the record of no
congress may be compared with dls
paragement to this one.
Fine Points of the Constitution.
With the income tax amendment to
the federal constitution in process of
ratification by the various states, the
speech delivered in the United States
senate not long ago by Senator Money
of Mississippi attempting to draw In
question the validity of the fourteenth
amendment brings out a number of
fine points which may yet have more
than academic significance.
To ratify an amendment and Incor
porate it into the constitution requires
submission in due form and the assent
of three-fourths of the states of the
union. The fourteenth amendment
was submitted by congress when there
were thirty-seven states, which would
make three-fourths of that number,
or twenty-eight, necessary to valid rat
iflcatlon. But Nebraska was admitted
shortly after and counted as one of the
ratifying states. The question Is
raised, therefore, whether three-
fourths of the states contemplated by
the constitution is three-fourths of
those enjoying statehood at the time
the amendment Is proposed or three
fourths of the number enjoying state
hood at the time of final ratification.
If the latter, plainly an amendment
lacking the necessary votes could be
carried by creating enough new states
to make up the three-fourths. If not,
then subsequently admitted states
should have no vote. Inasmuch as we
have In prospect two new states to be
formed out of Arizona and New Mex
ico not figured In when the Income tax
amendment was submitted by con
gress, it is, at least, barely possible
that a similar situation might be again
presented as when Nebraska was ad
mltted.
Another question raised by Senator
Money goes to the point whether the
assent of a state once given for rati
fication of a constitutional amendment
is irrevocaDie or can be later with
drawn. It is conceded that a state
falling to assent through one legisla
ture can through a subsequent legisla
ture change Its position and help make
up the necessary three-fourths vote.
The record of the fourteenth amend
ment shows that six states first re
jected and later, through reconstruc
tion governments, rescinded the rejec
tion by formal ratification, but two
states also which at first ratified later
attempted to reject prior to the pro
mulgation and affirmative vote of
three-fourths of the states. Senator
Money Insists that they bad a right to
rescind and that, going on the theory
of free assent, the fourteenth amend
ment did not have the necessary votes
for valid ratification.
It will be hard for 8enator Money
to make people believe that he is in
earnest in demanding proceedings at
this day to have set aside as void an
amendment which has been excepted
aa part of the constitution for more
than thirty years. Were he in
earnest we could see little prospect for
him to accomplish that object inas
much ss the supreme court has applied
the provisions of that amendment to
all sorts of cases. The points he
raises in that connection, however,
may have a bearing upon the action of
the states with reference to the Income
tax amendment which is going through
the same steps and has similar obsta
cles to overcome as did the fourteenth
amendment.
Omaha ai a Seat of Medical Education.
The FIexne,r report on medical edu
cation which has created such a tlr
in medical circles by its drastic criti
cism of existing medical schools and
their methods, outlines a plan for re
construction of Interest, to layman as
well as professional.
The proposition Is laid down as a
starting point that we must at onco
reduce the number and Improve tho
output of our medical schools, and
that It would be easier and cheaper to
snuff out the undesirable and super
fluous institutions now than to let
them prolong a precarious life through
an Intervening period consuming
resources that would be worse than
wasted. The plan proposed by Dr,
Flexner would save only thirty-one out
of 155 medical schools and prescribe
race suicide for the other 124.
For the iroup of states comprising
the middle west he would provide five
medical schools, locating one each at
Minneapolis, St Louis, Omaha, Ktnpas
City and Iowa City. Dr. Flexnor goes
on the theory that the medical school
for Nebraska should be conducted in
connection with the state university,
But he objects to the university
present plan of dispersing Its energies
through a divided school and advocates
concentration of the two parts, prefer
ably at Omaha because of the great
advantages here In clinical material
and hospital facilities over Lincoln.
ir Dr.. Jfiexner had his way ap
parently he would merge the medical
department of Creighton university
and of the state university and build
up one big well equipped, liberally
endowed and high standard pro
fessional school at Omaha to serve as
the medical department of the two unl
vers! ties and receive students prepaied
in either. There was talk once be
fore of a merger of Omaha's two medi
cat schools, but nothing came of it
and whether such a consummation
still feasible, desirable as it might be
Is open to question. These two modi
cal schools seem to be going along
each in its own path, at about the
same pace. It is certain, however
that complete reconstruction of the
medical department of the University
of Nebraska to conform to the require
ments of the most advanced standards
will come before very long, and that
the medical department of Creighton
university will likewise, unless such
merger ensues, have to strike out first
or follow suit
Omaha is destined to be the prin
cipal seat of medical education in this
section of the middle west, and the
forces ought to be conserved and sys
tematized to produce tho best results,
Those engaged In medical ' teaching
here or interested in our medical
acnoois can ne leaders in the move-
knent if they only wJJl.
France's Stork Laws.
France is at last giving serious heed
to the decrease In its birth rate, to
which Colonel Roosevelt so forcibly
called attention in his Sorbonne ad
dress. A series of measures has been
introduced In the French Parliament
designed to check the dangerous ten
dency of race suicide by placing pre
miums on marriage, such as supple
mentary salaries for government em
ployes with three or more children
and the abrogation of the obnoxious
law compelling an equal distribution
of estates between children. An in
centive is to be given all government
employes 25 years of age or above to
marry.
It is high time France was taking
some such action, for its birth rate has
gone down to a point of ominous as
pect. Since 1851 the nation's popula
tlon has Increased but 3,000,000,
which is a smaller rate of increase
than any other European nation. Ger
many in that time has Increased by
21,000,000 and Great Britain by 14,-
000,000. In sixty years, therefore,
the population of France has virtually
stood still, and whether this has caused
stagnation or retrogression in other
lines of civil life or not these condi
tions have come about until today the
situation is alarming.
France has the largest national debt
of any world power and its expendi
tures are steadily increasing out of all
proportion with its rate of Income.
It depends practically upon two
sources for its revenue taxation and
state properties and monopolies. Its
Industries are not keeping pace with
the times and its whole national life
is at the point where, if it has not al
ready set In, decadence cannot be
warded off long unless a change Is
brought about.
We have joked a goo.d deal about
the matter of race suicide and it does
seem like obtruding official authority
when it becomes necessary to take such
action as France has In view, but
continuation in the course of the last
sixty years would be fatal. It is no
fine commentary on the republic of
France that Indulgence has brought It
to such an extreme. If the strenuous
American's courageous speech at this
Parisian university is the leaven that
has stirred the national spirit of the
French people, then It is time to pay
the proper tribute to this Rooseveltian
characteristic of saying what he feels
to be right and needful at any time or
place.
Mere Man'i Opportunity.
Man has been complaining for some
time about woman usurping his field
of employment. He finds ecarcelr a
sphere of labor today In which in some
channel or other woman has not In
truded, and the less gallant of the
sterner sex have resented what they
choose to call unwarranted competi
tion.
It Is not so easy to settle the merits
of this controversy as it is to suggest
a way of relief to those men who feel
aggrieved at woman's ambition and
aggression, or who find themselves
crowded out of work as a result of it.
uet mere man go into woman's field
of occupation. Usurp what has al
ways been her exclusive rights, turn
the tables of competition and engage
in domestic service. And you will
nna ample opportunities, too. for
woman herself is neglecting this field
and households all over the land are
crying almost in despair for servants.
That man who can solve the servant
problem has his fortune made. He
need not harrow bis brain loneer
about, woman taking from him his pre
rogatives. ' '
As a matter of fact there are many
men wno couia ao worse than go into
ffl mlllAO mm Mut1- t. it.. I
wvivn. iu me large
weauny lamines or Dig cities the lead-
m men wny not in the
smaller places? If great men can be-
come great chefs, why not ordinary
men become good cooks? Of course,
we ao not suppose that this opportun-
Irv will I,.-.. !.-. .
. ... .. w u,a BO lar mio
the work that they will actually seek
to monopolize all forms of domestic
service and crowd the women out en-
tlrely, but the opportunity is there.
minx wnai a snap it would be. men.
to have your Thursdays and Sundays
off two ball games a week, or In th
winter you might make It two mati-
nees and sure pay day all the year
round
Advice to Young Lawyers
Shall a lawyer help a client violate
the law? That question propounded
to an attorney would ordinarily pro
.uu.suoul o. DUl It IB not
VIVSl 'b7 ,aUy i U U PUt
by Edward M. Shepard, one of the eml-
nnf llWAn rt XJau. v..b . I
"" '," V , Vlljr' nQ
ui,u . indicate! tne per-
tinency of the question. In the course
of a recent address Mr. Shenarri uM
enan a lawyer help a client vloiat. th
law i ir a client cornea to you, saying that
ne meditate breaking Into a houso. and
committing a burglary, and you heln him
then you deserve the same punishment as
th burglar. And th same thing Is true In
regard to a lawyer who helps a corpora
tlon break th law. But It Is no uncommon
tnmg that a corporation or an individual
wishes to do an Innocent thing that, in one
way is lawful, and In another la not Then
it is the duty of the lawrcr to find out
wnat is permitted by law.
mis is wnoiesome advice and a
sound principle Mr. Shepard holds up
to the young men about to enter this
alrearlv nvrirnvH t..i
the advice is needed, too, for there are
toaay too many lawyers who are not
following these precepts. If they
were we would have less cause for
complaint at retarded justice or de
feated justice where money tips the
balance of the scales on the side of one
of the litigants.
"An innocent thing," to which Mr,
Shepard refers 1b harmless and there-lflne"
fore not always productive of fees or
revenue, but that should never be the
moving influence with any lawyer in
any case and before we reach that ideal '
goal of equal Justice which is tripped
so lightly upon the tongue today it
will be necessary to practice some of
ineae goiaen precepts, why should
the talents of a lawyer be used to pro
tect guilty persons from just penal
ties. So long as euch distinguished
not ui iu icgai Droiaaaion aa
Edward M. Shepard say that this Is
done the rest of the honored bar will
have to be patient if the laity makes a
similar insinuation. The fact is there
is a crying need for reform along these i
lines.
WOrK and flay.
Chicago has a banker who va h
nVAF tr.Alr v.IIak r, ,.
' ,u,' wu'
to rest, never lost a day from business
on account of sickness, eschews base
ball, does not play golf, tennis or
j , j-i-v. ,-, ,
cards, never drinks, chews or smokes,
but always puts in nine hours of solid
work at the bank every day. And
mai man nas risen from messenger
boy to presidency,
A remarkable career, but not for so
remarkable a man. Others have risen
from as humble beginnings to as great
, . .v. V
""u Pleasure
oi me aiong mo way, either. This
man preaches, "Make your business
rr.ur r,lRiir " which I. . ,
u we vbu-u it true meaning, us true
meaning is not literal, however. What I
tbls Chicago banker has done thou'
anas oi oiaer persons might never
And possible. The thing comes down
to a matter of temperament. Such
an abstemious existence would ruin
most boys and men, drive out of them
that very element of character neces
sary to give them success. "All work
and no play makes Jack a
dull hnv
'
mirmm M , J . . I
wa not spoaea in jest, u nas a deep
and genuine meaning. Where one
man, by shutting out of his life every-
thing but hard work, succeeds and is
hannv nna hundred ty. .
,,, , I
more likely, would fall and become
morose a safe example for the one,
but dangerous for the many.
The moral, the mental, the physical
man calls for recrestlon, a certain
amount of It, and while work is the
main thing in life, play has its place,
U is characteristic of the American
People that they play as hard as they
I work, and the American people as a
whole are the healthiest, happiest and
most prosperous people in the world.
There is some reason to doubt, after
all, if the prodigies of life are more
useful than the ordinaries. We can
do without the brilliance much more
hand1Iy than we c'n iacrince th
average.
The enactment of a law providing
for a National Fine Arts commission
has been promptly followed by the ap-
polntment as commissioners of the
group of architects and artists who
were named as an unofficial commis
sion during President Roosevelt's ad
ministration. A fine arts commission
to elevate our artistic ideals will strike
everyone as a step in the right dlrec
tlon, and yet we in the west cannot
but wonder If there is no art on this
side of the Mississippi river that is
worth being represented in the mem
ueisuip oi me commission. Ours is a
great country, and no section of it has
any monopoly on love of art or artistic
sense to be truly national the com
mission should be national in its
make-up.
The Houston Post says Houston
does not like to associate with St.
Louis. All Texas towns rlo not fanl
that way. though: for. instance. thr
is Dallas permitting: the kin of st.
ivouis brewers to buy a quarter
million-dollar site and erect a million
dollar hotel on it. Maybe that has
something to do with Houston's
feelings.
The democratic movement, under
it.. .,11 w ,
-" yuunvu lusuigency, to
form a "third party," sustained an
awful Jolt In that Minnesota repub-
"can convention that adopted ringing
Taft resolution, and declined to aLpt
Rnv aisparaging him or his admlnls-
tration
A Dook rvew In current maga
1 106 Indulges in the following:
A generation henc the nam of Mr.
Bryan may be only a tradition connected,
as was that of Henry Clav. with neri.
tent ana unsuccessful seeking of the
road to Waahlngton and the White Houae.
Help! Help! Lese majeste! Un
thinkable!
I Tf thoan r,rl. Sirhror. or. a. .At
lQ t of self-defense as they
are in the art of working the free ad-
vertislng graft they are both entitled
to the chamDlonshln belt.
A Q nest Ion Blistered.
Nw Tork Tribune.
What shall w do with our ex-presldents?
How pal and academic that problem aa It
naa hitherto presented Itself now seems!
Casts of the Weariness.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Some railway men seem to have the ideal
that to manage a railroad Involves the
management of the government. Thus they
wear out. from overwork.
Beauty Linked with Tragedy.
Baltimore American.
It is one of the Ironies of fate that
plac like Lake Como, whose very name is
ynonym for ail that is most beautiful
and romantic in natur and in poetry,
ribie associations a that of the Chariton
tragedy.
"Apt Illustration's Artful Aid."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
.mowing peDDies at a mad dog," says an
exchange, "would be aa effective aa the
fine thrown at automobile scorchers by
our complacent American police magis
trates." One fancies that th pebbles would
be ven more effective, inasmuch aa the
are not ef,eotlve l " Th compart
on of th speed maniac with a mad dog,
however, may be allowed to stand.
Tha West and Postal Saving!.
Boston Transcript.
The west ha always said that fhe east
was mistaken In its attitude toward the
postal savings bank project; and that the
Mct,on w,th u" bunda.nt facilities, in-
i'uuhij . lugiuy organized saving TTanK
system, did not realize the large service
to the community which a government
agejicy of this kind might perform. Tha
opportunity to test this question has
com, ine popie who want 1 per cent
interest can now stand up and be counted.
Our Birthday Book
Jan 86. 1810.
eereno m. rayne, member of congress
of the way and mean committee, was
born Jun 26 im ,l Hamilton, ?. y.
w, """ 'onS " rec-
ords in connection with the Payne-Aldrlch
tariff law. of which house bin was drafted
under his supervision.
William James Mayo, of th famous
maju uiuliicii, .uraemia at nocnester,
,., is cei.brating hi. fortynmth birth-
df y. H was horn at Lsueur, Minn., and
has don some work that ha put him In
th class of a wizard of surgery.
Howard H. Baldrlge, lawyer, offlclng in
the First National bank building. Is forty-
six today. Ho waa born in Hollidayburc.
Pa., and graduated at Bucknell university
I" ,n ,th ,law c"ur,V' th" University of
Pennsylvania. H has been assistant
united Btatea attorney, county attorney
and state senator.
Rev- Frederick t. Rouse, pastor of th
First Congregational church, was born
st Jamestown, N. Y. H
was educated
at Wllllston seminary and
Vale seminary, and has been in th min-
Istry since 1884, starting out in th Ha
waiian Islands, coming to Omaha in 1907
from Appleton, Wisconsin.
Henry F. Dalley, th real estate man. Is
49 year old today. He la secretary of th
Est even Coal and Brick company, with
headquarters in Minneapolis.
John W. Redick, with 11. E. palmer Bon
it Co., insurance, was born June at
1884. right her In Omaha. He waa edu-
cted Bt Williams colleg, having been In
LI. ll - V. I ... .
W. UUSII1... .lilt; JtfVf. tl
th,
on of Juoa Radlek.
A. Q. Beson, who run th fir in.ur-
nce Inspection and rat bureau for Omaha
clebrtln hl fifty-first birthday, h.
wa born In Dowaglao, Michigan, and has
ben In th fir Insurance busln
thirty - five years.
for
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
A Joy rider who killed a woman In Nw
Torn waa sentenced to fifteen years in
the penitentiary. In passing sentence th
court told th culprit he ought to get tl
virus out of his system in that time.
A French physician announces Mint any
of the 111 of the flesh will vanish by
simply exposing the naked body to th
direct rays of the summer sun. Corn
building weather hereabout would hang
the hide on this tale.
Margaret Illlngton Frohman Bowes
talka merrily of returning to th foot
guts next fall. Leas than a year ao
she traveled the Reno road to Bovs and
domestic peace. Much more might be
told, but Margaret has a press agent of
her own.
Pan Francisco ha pledges of S, 000. 000
of the 17.600,000 needed to float th Pan
ama exposition. Disgruntled sport in
that section maintain that th balance
could be raised by a finish fisht between
Governor Gllle.tt and Mayor McCarthy of
"my town."
in the noise and excitement of the
Roosevelt landing on Isaao Pollock of
Brooklyn, a fellow passenger, neglected to
tell th custom house sleuths about 16,000
worth of jewelry hidden In his clothes.
Uncle Loeb declined ths explanation, but
took the Jewels.
Blerlot hud spent his entire fortune bp
lore he started on his famous channel
flight and a few years ago he had an In
come of $12,000. It all went on his aero
plane experiments and only his wife, of all
his relatives, had faith In him. Now he Is
rich again, and It isn't anything for him
to clear $30,000 a week.
The story of King George's earlv mor-
ganatio marriage has had such a wide clr
cuiation that It Is only fair to note that
the dean of Norwich In hlu address lat
bunday took pulns to denounce It aa "ob-
solutely, root and branch, an untruth.
in aean also thought it worth while to
deny that the king ever drank to excess.
LAKD WITHDRAWAL, BILL.
most Important of Conservation
Measure Passed.
Kansas City Times.
The most Important of th several con
servation bills before congress has been
passed by both houses and will be signed
by the president. It provides that the
president may at any time withdraw public
larirla rrrn n L.
1 " vi me puipuse OI p,.0.
tecting water power sites, for classification
anl valuation or for other purposes caicu-
lated t0 Protect ln people against the
.tnIn'0" il 'UCh.. land". wlthout
coal. o7.n oth.'r Lpu Tre u"S
account in th bin.
This
law will make legal by explicit
authority what President Roosevelt did
without such authority, but also without
explicit prohibition In the conatltution of
the laws. The extent of which the public
lands, mora especially those holding heavy
deposits of coal, minerals or oil, or covered
by fine timber, were being taken over by
private interests, often by unlawful meth
ods, made It necessary that some arbitrary
power should interfere to save the public
domain from such exploitation. Mr. Roose
velt did the right thing, and he persisted
in doing it in spite of the bellowing of the
gored oxen. When he was told that the
laws did not specifically grant him this
power he answered that the law did not
specifically deny it, and intimated that if
law was necessary thea the law should be
pi uviueu.
Secretary Balllnger, almost immediately
arter asauming charg of the Interior de
partment, restored to; entry most of the
land withdrawn by President Roosevelt's
order. But public sentiment overwhelmed
Washington in vigorous protest, and aoon
after many of the lands thus restored to
entry were again withdrawn, pending the
enactment of the law which is now through
both houses. -
PREACHER Oil I'KOMOTEH f
On Clergyman Object to Union of
Both Dutlea.
Boston Transcript
Many a clergyman will sympathize with
the Presbyterian divine who, though he
has loug successfully ministered to one of
the oldest churches in Chicago, recently
resigned because he felt that his true func
tion, that of preacher and pastor, waa ob
scured by th executive duties that fall,
almost inevitably, upon the head of a
metropolitan church. He had to manage
institutions, preside over societies, solicit
endowments, and act aa charity trustee,
bond broker, gymnasium director, settle
ment worker, school official and even bill
collector, and, being "essentially a religion
ist," such activities seemed to him not
only wasteful, but wrong. There are many
young men Who axe equipped with capac
ity for executive work, he says, and to
such belong tha pastorates of urban
churches. Possibly that Is true. Perhaps
It is still more true that no man should
be expected to combine the incongruous
duties of priest and promoter, except he
be fully persuaded that he can do so suc
cessfully. In any church there should be
some devoted msn or men who would be
willing to relieve the minister of such
burden and set him free to fix hi heart
and his mind upon the things of th spirit.
IB J)q jfoil
Realize
that your Piano
costs you $50 per
annum for upkeep?
This embraces interest, taxes, tuning and depreciation.
Are you getting returns to offset this expense! Your piano
is in use only when the musician of the house is in the mood.
VTiy not have an instrument that you can use, she can play
and they can produce any of the CLASSICS as well as the
popular music, without instructions or expense.
The A. Hospe Co. have the article to fill this want, etc.
The Boudoir Player Piano, price $375.00, including
bench, scarf and 25 rolls of music. $2.00 per week will pay
for it.
Let us have your old used piano as part pay for the use
ful piano. Should Alice wish to play by hand, the Houdoir
is the piano, but George will play it with his feet and de
liver the goods just the same.
A. HOSPE CO.
1513-1515 Douglas Street
' P. S. A six year old can play the Boudoir.
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
I,ove Is the Kecrit of loyalty.
The' rape for avid defers the golden a.
Heaven Is often hidden in our hardvhlps.
A good denl of honest linplety Is du to
tham piety.
No man was ever yet led Into truth by
shaking a fist at him.
None get on the height with the divine
ho are not nr. the level with men.
The pessimists are the people who ana
lyse the game, but never get Into It.
Our poverty Is more likely to be due
to the good we miss than to the goods we
lose. m
The bent way to meet some enemies 1
to slay them first and argue with them
afterwards.
When the church goes Into th circus
business the side shows soon in allow up
the main tent
Nothing will keep men from becoming
saints better than the sight of some who
are dead sure they are.
No man ever deeply admired a great good
without deeply detesting that which stood
In Its way. Chicago Tribune.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"Ho you don't care for the peekaboo
styles?"
1 do not.
"What do you
think a girl ought ta
wear I
"Clothes." Louisville
Courier-Journal.
Hunbami-
-Why don't you act cheerful Ilka
Mrs. Uinks?
Wife I would If I were a widow, a aha
is. Cleveland Leader.
She Dili you say anvlhlna- to didi about
your being too young T
He les. But he said when I one heaan
to pay your bills I should aa ranldlv
enough. Pittsburg Osteite.
"By the wsy. Elder Browne, whv is it
thst you always address your congregation
as 'brethren,' and never mention the women
In your sermons T"
'But, my dear madam, the one embraces
the other."
'Oh. but. Elder, not in church." Rueres
Magazine.
"John." asked his wife, who waa wrlrln
to one of her former schoolmates, "whlcii
is proper to say: -I differ from you' or !
differ with youf "
Tell her you differ from her. I under
stand that she lets her husband have a,
part of his salary to have fun with him
self." Chicago Tribune.
Young Wife (proudlv exhibiting the ha.hvt
Isn't h a darling, BruceT Just feel of his
plump little legs!
Bachelor mother They re as hard aa
nails, Bertha. He's a corker.
Young Wife Hard as nails! You brutet
Chicago Tribune.
A MEMORY.
Author Unknown.
I think the gentle soul of him
Goes softly in some garden place.
With the old smile time' may not dim
Upon his face.
He was a lover of the spring.
With love that never quite forgets,
Surely sees roses blossoming
And vloJets.
Now that his day of toll Is through,
I love to think he sits at ease,
With some old volume that he knows
Upon his knees.
Watching, perhaps, with quiet eyea
The nhlte clouds dNftiii argosy;
Or twilight opening flower-trlae
On land and sea. '
lie who so loved companionship
I may not think walks quite alone,
Fniilng some friendly band to slip
Within his own.
Those whom he loved aforetime, still,
I doubt not. bear him comnanv;
I think that laughter yet may thrill
Where he may be.
A thought, a fancy who may tell?
Yet 1 who ever pray it so
Feel through my tears that all it weH
And this i know.
That God
is gentle to Ilia ruent
And.
therefore, may I gladly sav.
'Surely, tho thingx He loved the best
Are His today."
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From Excelsior Spring, Mo.
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Bait buiphur, (Excelxlor Springs) 6 gal
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1 dozen linn
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tttgeni water, nun, qu bottl SS
1 dozen, at tnai
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Appollliiarls Water, qu, pu. and Splits,
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Buffalo Lithia Water, Vi gal. bottle . BOO
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liallardvllle, qtx. 20c, doz a.SO
Ballardvale, H gals. 40c, doz 4.0a
Colfax water, Vi-g&l. bot. S5c, doz... 3.60
Delivery free In Omaha, Council Bluffs
and tJouh Omaha.
Sherman & tcConnell Drug Co.
Corner 16th and Dodge Bt.
Owl Drug Co.
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