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Bubacjbed In my presence and aworn to before ma thla lit day it August, 1910. M B. WALKER. . . Notary Public. , Sabarrfbers leaving; the elty (raw porarllr ' aaoald bare Tba - Be (ailed to tarn. Addreaa will b ekaai4 aa oftea aa reqaealed. L. . If those $2-a-dozen Alaska eggs are s strong as their price, we pass. At the sign of the double-cross ye shall know them the democrats. v "ranatics," says Ballinger. But If be is not careful he will be calling names. Right now is a good time to stop bouncing that rubber question bo promiscuously. Many a man hears the call of the wild the day after election who does not like the sound. Don Jaime, the man who wants Al- phonso's Job, displays a reckless taste for the strenuous life. Never mind, Colonel Roosevelt will loon be out here himself and tell us all about it at first hand. -' Dr. Cook missed a great chance In not hunting for the North. Pole among those. Oklahoma Indians. Colonel Roosevelt thinks little of the aeroplane, but he also tabooed the uto and yet had to. come to it. - Wonder how maijy lawyers are kicking themselves for having over looked the main chance In Oklahoma! It la to be hoped Senator Heyburn will get. on good terms with himself before, the reconvening of congress in December. .By Insisting that he will continue to work for the good of the democratic party Mr. Bryan must mean that he kas' retired. - -That Boston phys sauerkraut Js mor baked beans must St. Louis or Milwaukee. wno says 'tlous than Move to : A Georgia paper advertises "Old pants one-third to one-half off." You can scarcely blame" man, the kind of weather they have in Georgia. If Governor Shallenberger has no campaign to make for re-election be may yet turn back a small remnant of that traveling expense appropriation. . Still, a man who could see the sal vation of a nation In free silver ought to be able to decipher a prohibition victory out of Dahlman's nomination. If William J. Bryan would talk out like Uncle Joe Cannon we might get seme idea of his real opinion of cer tain distinguished democrats. A Chicago paper feels it incumbent to ' warn over-enthuslastlo zealota gainst exaggerated estimates of pop ulation. Chicago will gvt hers shortly. Another trouble with the United Mine workers is that they have too many leaders with conflicting advice as to bow to manage a strike sue nessfully. "What 1b the significance of this big wine Importation which the gov ernment reports disclose?" asks a correspondent. Must be that we like the brand. "We fear Colonel Harvey, Colonel Roosevelt and Colonel Bryan will ever get together In this world," ays the Washington Herald. Will anyone take a throw at the next? The Spirit of Unreit. Nearly every Intelligent observer has noted the wide prevalent-Aof the spirit of unrest manifesting wielf In countless different ways. This spirit of unrest Is not confined to any one country, or to any one class within Ae country. The spirit of unrest perme ates the world of business as well as the world of politics; It Is felt In re ligious fields and in social circles; It is general and elusive rather than well defined and of fixed purpose. The word unrest probably describes it as clearly and as sharply as ft can be described. It this spirit of unrest is nebulous and intangible, yet really potent, to locate its origin and Identity its mov ing causes is a dlflcult, if not an im possible, task. L'nrest is plainly a concomitant of human progress. It Is like the eddy that follows in the wake of a moving boat. In his class ical work on political economy John Stuart Mill devoted a chapter to the economics of the stationary state a chapter that belongs in the realm of fiction because no social organization can remain at an economic standstill. If the conditions imagined by Mr. Mill were possible we might hope some day to extinguish completely the spirit of unrest, but with constant and never ceasing changes In our mutual rela tions in all human activities, unrest Is bound to be present and to vary from time to time only in degree. When business methods are being trans formed, when political organizations are undergoing realignment, when social classes are coming closer to gether or getting further apart, the spirit of unrest will pot be extermi nated. Whether this unrest la a good or a bad sign depends upon the direction social, Industrial and religious move ments are taking. All history has recorded a steadily advancing civiliza tion In spite of occasional setbacks, and the fastest progress has been made In the past just when popular restlessness was greatest The spirit of unrest should, we believe, be viewed as encouraging rather than discouraging. It is one of the hope ful harbingers of the times forerun ning a better and more prosperou era. , Who' Fault ii It? The habit of disparaging politicians is common In this country. It is a fashion many men have of discredit ing their neighbors the minute they enter political life and the cry of the crowd Is that politics is degraded by the character of men that usually go in for it. Ask some prominent, pros perous business man, who takes this view of things, why be doea not run for office and be will tell yon be can not afford it; not enough In it to pay him for leaving bis business. And from a purely money consideration he may be right. But he bad Just con cluded deriding the politician and yet he himself refuses to lend his dignity and moral influence , to purifying the politics he accuses the other fellow of degrading. , Whose fault Is it In a free country If the standard of politics and poli ticians Is not as high as it should be? Are there not enough of the "better element" In every community to con trol the local affairs, to see that the offices are filled by the men best adapted to, their demands? Men fre quently vsay, "1 have no Interest in politics, and I do not even vote in local elections." How much are these men doing to raise the level of politics and the personnel of politicians In their communities? Is he the best citizen who refuses to exercise the franchise, the first right of citizenship, or fails to exert his Influence toward getting -the best men for public office? In a country where the majority rule we shall have to continue-holding the majority responsible for the men elected to office and the observer will be slow to believe that the ma jority of men do not make the aver age. While It Is possible for the will of the majority sometimes to be de frd by the Interposition of sinister 1 nces, and. while this dos oc- Uiilci-.ally happen, It still furnishes no excuse to the "better element" for not being as active in politics as the sinister Influence. . Passing of the Evangelist. The church evangelist seems to have served his day, if he has not passed on altogether. At least he is less con spicuous today than he was some years ago, and his Influence is more restricted. A new order of worship as well as thought In the church is responsble for this change, and that new order is simply a part of the general transition toward a safer and more permanent system of public ex pression. Conditions are not favorable to the peripatetic preacher now, and there are only a few of them of any prominence whatever. Wilbur Chap man, to be sure,' may continue as he sees fit his activities indefinitely, for the late John H. Converse endowed him In his will for life, and aside from that some means have come into Mr. Chapman's family of late years. But It is seriously to be doubted if the great Chapman wields the wide in fluence today that he did d decade ago. Rev. "Billy" Sunday's star of fame seems to have reached Its senith, and, strangely enough, Mr. Sunday, too, Is supposed to bo at least com fortably fixed. Rev. R. A. Torrey, a disciple of the Moody school of evan gelism, though hardly in the Moody class, does not seem ' to fit into the more liberal trend of thought that Is noticeable In the church of the pres ent. Undoubtedly the old-time evangelist found his richest harvests in the emo tional heart. Are hearts less emotional today, or are the people more thought ful? It must be the latter. It cannot be that they are less religious, If our statistics, which show steady Increases rn church populations, be Infallible. Ministers maintain their people are more Inquiring, more honest In their thought and therefore more and not less pious, but the difference between their piety now and that of yesterday Is that the preachers are appealing more to their reason than their emo tion. And this is as It should be. The new conditions make the local pastor a more Important and influential factor and give greater stability and permanence to the church and Its agencies. But with the passing of the modern circuit rider have come new enter prises for propagating the faith. They have assumed various forms and are more systematic and aggressive, both as to their character and influence. The church itself, both pulpit and pew, is inclined to ask the average evangelist for references these days, for the very system that had its Moodjs also had Its mountebanks and against these the church today seeks to protect itself. J T Stretchin; the limit. A specially appointed heaven-Inspired mind reader duly commissioned by our democratic contemporary to outline in advance what Colonel Roosevelt Is to say on his forthcom ing western tour furnishes some light midsummer reading which would be Important as well as entertaining, if true. Among other policies which we are told Colonel Roosevelt will favor will be the "recall to a limited ex tent," and we are further told in con fidence: It la aald that Colonel Roosevelt la not prepared to apeak out In support of the recall aa to all officials, but that he will endorse it aa to some, officials, and es pecially aa to federal Judges. Colonel Roosevelt has been accused of a great many things, but he has never been charged with being quite as visionary as that. The recall for federal judges would require not only an amendment to the federal constitu tion, but a complete reversal of the theory of the judicial department of our government which is to make the Judges Independent of, rather than subservient to, the periodic waves of popular clamor. The federal consti tution 'provides that federal judges shall be appointive and not elective; that they shall bold' their terms for life and be removable only by lm peach men t. We bave enacted laws permitting federal judges to retire on full pay after sitting on the bench twenty years and reaching the age of 64, but we bave never yet undertaken to compel a" federal judge to vacate his place against his will without prior trial and conviction for'malfeas- ance or corruption, because the con. stltution fully protects him from arbi trary removal. " It may be harmless pastime to guess at what Colonel Roosevelt will do and say, but to Impute to him a contemplated assault upon the Judi ciary, whose independence he has al ways stoutly maintained, is stretching the limit. Training; of Children. One danger of the training of chil dren in public institutions which seems to have impressed itself too little on the minds of some of the good people engaged In these chari ties is the possible subtraction of home training, or the lack of inspiring this home training. Public schools have a part in the education and development of the child which cannot be minimized, but the public school is not primarily the place to train children and no society ever organized for the child's uplift can claim half the right in this great work that the schools can The place for children to get their character building and their first and last les sons In bow to be real men and wo men is the home, and nowhere else, and the parent or public reformer, teacher or propagandist, who falls to inculcate this very important principle In his work with the child not only falls of his duty, but does the child, the parent and the state an irrepara ble wrong. Parents with the correct view of life do not need to have such things brought to their consideration, but If all parents had the correct view of education, either as their own duty or their children's welfare, charitable or quasi-public institutions for child culture would have less strenuous work to do and we would have fewer of these societies, many of which really serve no purpose as it Is, for the simple reason that too frequently they are conducted by men and wo men whose sense of assumed responsi bilities are out of all proportion with such serious work. Schools must share with parents the grave responsibility of training their children, but the parent should always remember that the school can do little without the parent's help, or. In fact, unless the parent first per forms his full duty. Children whose parents give them a distorted sense of their own rights, who permit them to run at random with little or no restraint, to annoy neighbors with un bridled freedom, and go to other un reasonable lengths, can never obtain the proper development, because the school is not inherently capable of making up for the home's deficiency; the school can do its part of the work, but it cannot do its part and the home's part, too. The child, of course. In such cases should become the object of pity and ,TIIE OMAHA, SUNDAY BEE: AUGUST ii the parent the object of soorn. for it is not until later in life that the child discovers his mistake, or is entirely accountable, while the, parent should be accountable for his or her mistake before It is made. This lack of pa rental authority and control Is not so mucfl a matter of "don't know" as It is a matter of "don't care." It is too often a case of the easiest way out is the best, a delusion entailing fearful consequences. Canada is Getting Excited. Many of the strongest Canadian newspairs are charging that Ameri can papers have conspired to dissemi nate the "false" report that thousands Of land buyers who went from the United StateB to Canada are returning disgusted and poorer than they went. They afrirm that a puDlicity bureau to promote this campaign of "false hood" exists In Washington ' and "feeds" papers all over the country. Then, using the' severest sort of terms in denouncing this "plot" and those newspapers engaged in It, the Cana dian Journals say that the American papers are pretending that many of these disappointed landBeekers re turned from Canada are joining thou sands of others who are going into the south and southwest to buy homes. If any such conspiracy exists we are ignorant of It, but the United States government has counted some 8,000 Americans who went to Canada In the last year returning across the border. This, of course, Is a very small and Insignificant number as compared with those who went to buy Canadian land, and It ought not give Canada any warrant for ugly charges. What is more natural than that American papers should seek to promote Ameri can interests and to develop Ameri can resources over and above those pf any other country, Canada not ex cepted? WThy should not the news papers of the United States urge their own people, who are looking for farms, good soil, good climate and the best prospects to be had, to go west, or south where land may be bought more reasonably, all things considered, than anywhere else. The American press, therefore, is likely to keep up this campaign of preaching southern and western Immigration, as against Cana dian Immigration. But it is not necessary at the same time to decry Canadian emigration as having no good in it, especially when bo much benefit to both countries may come from an Intermingling of these people Americans and Canadians. Many of these emigrants were born of Canadian parents and those who were not, If they stay and establish homes ' over the line, will naturally continue friendly to their native coun try, the result being a homogeneous race separated only by an imaginary line, which will contribute vastly to the mutual peace and prosperity of the two countries. Army of School Failures. Two hundred and fifty thousand boys and girls about 14 years of age are graduated every year from the public schools in the United States. Another 250,000 boys and girls quit school every year because of failure to make their grades. These state ments came from Dr. Luther H. Gu lick, director of the .department of child hygiene of the Russell Sage foundation, who writes an interesting article in the current World's Work. These 250,000 who quit bave on an average only reached, or completed, the sixth grade work, while there are eight grades In the public school course. Dr. Gullck points out that our education is based on the funda mentals of Intelligent citizenship, but as we only begin to teach those basal subjects lnthe seventh grade this army of 250,000 children that drops out of school every year gets none of this elementary training In citizenship. The result is a loss to the state as well as to the home, private business en terprise and the child itself. These four prime causes he cites as responsible for children leaving school: 1. Lack of adjustment between length of compulsory period and school courae. 2. Preventable Ill-health or removable phyalcal diseases. 3. Irregular attendance. 4.' The fact that the courses are either too difficult for, or are not adapted to, the average pupil. But while he strongly advocates compulsory attendance upon school for a course of eight years, Dr. Gullck makes his chief point on the statement that our public school course Is too hard, or too high for the average pu pil, and that It should be modified to fit his case. He grants that various physical defects which should be cured and for whose cure he provides are often the cause of delayed progress, but the fact remains that at the age of 14. which is the proper age to complete the eighth grade, the average boy or girl who is not beyond the sixth grade becomes discouraged or embarrassed and drops out and never goes back to school. If these figures are correct and they can scarcely be questioned they are little less than startling. It Is un fair to the child not to try to remove the difficulties that prevent him or her from getting the education available obtain. These obstacles may possibly be dealt with by a more thorough sys tem of sanitation and medical atten tion, for iu the majority of cases physical defects are easily removable, whether In the child or the school building. This authority advocates - compul sory education, a modification of the course to fit the average child, the be ginning of school age at 8 or 7, which, 21, 1910, according to his statistics, brings the best resulta and a follow-up system to keep the child In school. . The death of. Florence Nlghtlngafe has cslled forth deserved tributes to her work to humanity aa a nurse In the Crimean war. It should be re membered, however, that there have been self-sacrificing women who have gone to the front as nurses to succor and relieve the wounded In every war since then. The nurse on the battle field and In the army hospital is entl-1 tied to full measure of praise, whether conspicuous or obscure. The report Is being circulated that republican leaders look with favor upon the aspirations of Congressman Walter I. Smith of Council Bluffs as successor to Speaker Cannon If the re publicans retain control of the next house of representatives. That would be about 88 near to Omaha as the speakership could possibly be brought under the circumstances. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has conferred knighthood upon a former state treasurer of Illinois in recognition of his work' for the wel fare of Immigrants from Austria to this country. Philanthropic service of that kind seems to be much more highly appreciated abroad than It is at home. Speaker Cannon declares that In the present campaign "I, shall do what I can to bring about the election . of a republican house of representatives." The best lick he could put in to that end would be to say that he will not ask again to be elected speaker. According to carefully made esti mate 65 per cent of this year's output Of automobiles have been sold to farmers. Lamentations about the hard lot of the farmer will soon be as obsolete as mediaeval observations on astrology. And now a story comes of the dis covery that the Taft family and the Aldrich family are distantly related. Still, people are not' to , be held ac countable for their ancestors. ReveralBK Old Forma. Indianapolis News. . Speaking of the whirligig of time and. Its way of bringing on revenges you. will note that whereas the Indians used to scalp ua. we now akin them. , . Get Yonr'af Chicago Record-Herald. The sugar consumed In the United States amounta to an average of eighty-two pounds per inhabitant. A good many of the children will insist that they are not get ting their share. ....... Tba Uaezpeeted Hsfitas, ' Philadelphia Record. ' "De world do move." Mia honor la out for reform, and the Standard Oil company has asked the, Chicago Board dt Review to In crease the tax on Its property In that city. Gentle reader, don't drop dead. Ltua Soon. Fararottea. Wall Street. Journal. , Imports of ' luxuries to . the . amount of 260,000.000, an. Increase of more than 1K.000,- 000, aa compared with 'the former-high rec ord year, shows how- easily. ha lessons of the 1907 panic are forgotten. Dnra Tbla Prospect Please Cleveland Plain Dealer. Only a few more weeks of summer; only a few more weeks of the bathing beaches; only a few more weeks of the straw hats; and then the melancholy days when the Iceman counts up hla profits, and tba coalman's smile, broadens Into the normal winter gloat. ' The Shame of Criminal Law. Baltimore American. It Is interesting to find from the report of a committee of Investigators that we are a century behind the English criminal courts In our delays and technicalities, but this humiliation ought to be a spur to the correction of the evils of our own system. English criminal law haa Its own defects. but it moves with' a promptness and a sure- nesa of justice which at least insures for It a wholesome respect, nor are Its opera tions hampered, by the falsa sentiment which needs correction on-this aide. FREEDOM, OF THE AIR. Activities of tbe Filers Call for New Laws. Boston Herald. Germany, which la leading In the de velopment of aviation law, proposes to add to Its Initial code, which restricted the privilege of flying to . competent aviators, a law making filers responsible for dam ages caused by alighting. There will naturally arise the question whether such damages are to ba confined to actual In jury to property, br may be aasessed for unwelcome Intrusion on the privacy of a landowner's grounds. Saturday an aviator "dropped in" on Mr. RockefeHer. Ha waa welcomed because of the novelty of his arrival. When fliers become more common they will be less welcome in such grounds, but ordinary guards will not be sufficient to keep them off. Must they communicate with the owner and ask his leave when about to alight; shall 'the assessment of damagea be left to Jurors, or shall we have a "compensation" law, which shall estab Hsh a fixed rate for aueh Intrusion? With the promotion of aviation, meets thla may become as serious a question hers aa It now la in Germany. Our Birthday Book August 81, 1810. Frank A. Munaey, magaxlne and news paper publisher, w-as born August 11. JhM, In Mercer, Me. The origin of his success Is traceably to the "Golden Argosy," a weekly story paper which he uaed to publish for the juveniles. John M. Thurston, former United States senator from Nebraska. Is just 63. He Is a native of Montpeller, Vt., studied law in Wlaconsln and located In Omaha (n the early '70a, where he later became general solicitor for the I'plon Pacific, from which he stepped Into th Cnlted Statea senate. Hla last notoriety waa in connection with the bribery charges growing out of the Oklahoma Indian land cases. Frank B. Hochatetler, president of th Wright A Wilhelmy company, wholesale hardware, Is celebrating his fifty-second birthday. H was born In Nebraska City of a family of Nebraska pioneers and came to Omaha with the firm of Rector at Wil helmy company In 1U3, which haa since hern reorganised into th preaent corporation. SEHMOKS BOILED DOWN. We seldom know ouf besetting alns when w-a meet them. . The loss of one flower may he the gift of many seed. It Is easy to mistake an empty mind for an open ona. ... Some seem to think that the tree of life has a ot. o4 Aark. When sin prates of liberty It means free dom to make slaves of. soma. It may be better to lift up a man s heart than to Uke up hla load. Men are never safe so long as they think only of saving themaelves. Many think they strengthen their hopes of heaven by their despair for earth. Mockery Is the refuse of the small mind before that which It cannot measure. Better only the temple In the heart than to go to a tampla without your heart. The longing for power to do rUht ought to be mor than that for pardon for wrong. When a man climbs up to rob hi neigh bors he often uses a ladder labeled pa triotism. Too many battalions are fighting the goid fight of faith with flags Instead of fire arms. ' .: i The thing that worries aome about heaven Is that there will be no opportunities for dlaUnotlon by means of millinery. Chi cago Tribune. Personal ajto otherwise. Glenn Curtis fixes upon' 15,000 a day as the proper amount to make hla wings flop, A patent smoke consumer comes into the market In time to catch the early campaign ' . . . : Modern conveniences are so well adjusted to the needs of the population that no man needs go above the ground floor to take a tumble. . , Eastern astronomers ear that the newly discovered Metcalf'a comet has a tall lao mlnutea long. Biit that was before Gilbert tied a can to IL If investigation provea that base' ball I played In heaven, the golden paving bricks Will aid the fana In passing the customary compliments to the umpire. Chicago's new directory, showing the numerical supremacy of th Johnsons over the Smiths, affords one explanation for the Increased turmoil In the Windy City. Th Smiths usually have a mortgage on first base. - .... Fashion may play all kinds of capers with feminine garments and keep on the aunny side of. th sex, but. when It proposes to banish , the padding on the shoulders of men's coats It will get all th trouble It is looking for. In th primaries as well as on th diamond th man who makes a horn run gets. th. cpsy . corner on th score board An Ohio court, th third this year, affirms the principles of the -"status quo anteup" by holding that it la not ,a crime for a wife to investigate her husband's pockets. New Orleans Is. distributing fetching pic torial literature and diagram showing th clty'a auperlor advantages for the Panama exposition. San Diego voted bonds for th same purpose and San Francisco passed up a prise fight to. proy that it could be good. The problem, now turns on .which, of th three will land on Uncle Sam's purs. GOOD MIXERS IN PULPIT. Na of .CJom.i Symoatby Betweea . Paatr,aal People. . ' j St. Paul P1oaer Press. The trustees of' Holy rood' church In New York seek a' new paster, 'advancing the charge' that their ' preaent minister la not "paatoral" enough hi hi work. :"What w need at Holyrood la a good mixer," declares ona of the trustees. , ' ' If th idea la new tor its expression. It Is not' new In It basic truth, and it is an Idea worth serious consideration. '.. ; Why should a preacher of th gospel be a ractusa, shut off from the touch' of hi tal low man. cloistered among books and Inno cent of th problems of his time? Th church Is rapidly coming to feel that he should not b such. Perhaps no complaint has been so general among those who eiiticia th modern church as ,th charg that th preacher la not la cloaa sympathy, with th needs of his pariah, that tb church I not allv to th Immediate problems: that vex th human hearts of men struggling for existence In th midst of discouraging surroundings. It Is true that mor and mor the church is coming ' to desire preachers who are "good mixers," who get out. among men, meeting them In their .toll and task, sensing their problems at first hand, and eager to help them in practical waya as well as In th purely religious ways. In a little "city not far from her a Vouug preacher organised a fopt ball team and coached it himself. He .was criticised for a time, but he got reaulta far beyond th re sults of th gridiron battles. In another ' city not . far from here a preacher became mayor .of a town and pro ceeded to Inaugural a - ay stem of - street building which gave the city Ita first per manent road waya. No' preacher haa ever' mixed actively with men without making ' hla church a more vital Institution and his work a more per manent Influence. ' llowevr, ' th burden should not ill b placed' on the shoulders of 'the minister. The men and women of his congregation have !a 'fluty and respon sibility In the matter. If th minister takes full advantage of hla opportunities to min gle with men and women, learn their thoughts 1 and' aspirations, and then falis, the responsibility la not hla alone, -but must be shared ' by those for whose benefit he works. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Miss Pry Mrs. Jones, your daughter just called me a nosey old gossip. Mrs. J ones I shall tend H her at once. I've told her -over and over again not to speak the truth when It's liable to hurt people' feelings. IJpplncott's. First Erudite Prof essor I - not that' re cent excavation show that the Phoenician women wore hobble skirts. Second " Erudite Prof eseor But' they -did not wear them until dressed for the mummy chamber.r-Cleveland Plain Dealer. ' The Bride Did you tell the clergyman that I'd prefer not to be kissed -by him after the ceremony? The .Groom Yea,' dear." It'a all right He aid in that case he'd charge only half th usual fee. Baltimore American. "Sir. t want to marry youV daughter!" "Take her, my boy.' and let ma be happy.',' Cleveland Leader. , "I hone you will accept! my condolences," began Mr. Somber. -Thank you,"- replied th widow of Mr. Gayrake. . . "Yes." continued Mr. -Somber, "w must r member tht we must all go that way seme day, and that" "Oh, my!" exalalm'ed the widow. "I hope not."-Catholic Standard and Times. "Oh, yes, I go to church; tit In thla kind of weather I Ilka my sermons boiled down." "I should think that in this kind of Frooh T.linod Hard Coal 010.50 Havens-White Coal Co. 1610 Parnam Ot. Omaha, Nob. - -Telphenee-Dei$la 630, Intf. A-UJ" weather you'd rather hav them tight off the Ice." Chicago Tribune. "John." exclaimed th shocked woman, "you are eating with your knife!" "I know it. I'm economising. When you eat with your knife you have to learn to balance your food. You eat ess and It takes Innger.'V-WashlnRton M.ir. "John." asks th wife, "hav you got your umbrella cover?" "8tie," annvMi the capable husband. "Hre. I've got It on the thing." "t'rasv! l,ook what you've done. You've almost ruined my new hobble skirt" Life. - RECIPROCITY OF SMILES, .IX Or SMILES. ley In Collier s. " J. W. Fflley Sometimes I notuler why they mll so filiakantiy at n-.e. And pat my head as they pasa by as frit ndly a can be; Sometimes I wom.er vny they slop to tU me How-d'-do, And ak in, tfifi, now old I am and where I'm going to; And a.-k me tan pare a curl and say they used to know A lltti idri tua, .ooked like me, oh. years and years ago; And I toid mamma how hey smiled and asked her why they do. So she said If y..u .ii.e at folk they always smile at you. I never knew I smiled at them when thT were going by; I gue.-s 11 ...... by Itself and that's the reason why; 1 just lm k up . r.im playing It It's sny one I snow , And in,.. .iioM !vys smile at me and maybe say Hello; And I iau sin.ia at an; one, not matter who or where. Because 1 m jtmt a little girl with lots of them to spare; . And tnamnia fnl ne ought to smile at' folka, and If you do Most aiwa Uu v ip i belter and they smile right back at you. And when so many amlle at me and ask me for a curl It makes me think most everybody Ilka e little girl; And once when I was playing and a man . was. going by He smiled at me and then he rubbed Some dust out of his eye Because It made ; It water so, and aald n used to know A little girl up in his yard who used to smile just so; And then 1 askeu why don't she now anj then he said "You see" And then he rubbed his, eye again and only smiled at me. 1 is dear at any price when the quality Isn't in It; and many a good customer has been lost by having 'a cheap harness stuck on to him. mess of the best' make and Lest material Is our specialty. We - carry nothing . else.. If we cannot sell the best,' we won't sell any. Harness of every style and tor every purpose can be got at our store. ' Many styles, but all of the' best quality. If you are look ing for good goods at mod erate prices, you will find them at. Johnson-Danfarth Co. 10th and J ones Sts., OMAHA, - NEBRASKA: Freich Vichy Water from Vichy France Is onlv one of over luu kinds of Mineral Watera we sell. Wa buy direct from Spring or Importer and are In position to make ldw price and guarantee fresh ness . and ,genulnenes. Write for cata logue. Crystal Llthia (JSxcelalor Springs) ( gal lon jug. at $3.00 Salt Sulphur. (Excelsior Springs) t gal lon jug, at ., $3.as Diamond Uthia Water, H gallon bottle, now at 40 1 dosen .4.00 Sulpho Salin water, qt. boL 25c, dos. S.2S Hsgant Water, Iron, qL bottle 86 1 dozen, at Bg.as Csrlsbaa Sprudel Wasser. bottle ....BO 1 dosen. at $6.00 French Vichy water, bot. 40c, dos 4.6J Appulllnaria Water, qu., pta. and Spills. at lowest piicas. Alloue Magnesia water, qt. ioo, dos 8.50 Buffalo Lllnla Water, H gal. bottle ..SO 1 doxca cm ..$9.76 Ballardvale. pta. 16c. doz 1.30 Ballardval. qts., 20c. doi 8.36 ballardval. V gala. 40c, dos 4.00 Colfax water, H-gal. bot. sic. dos. ,.3.0 Delivery free In Omaha, Council Bluffa and Sout'i Omaha. Sherman & McConnsll Drug Co. Corasr 16th and Dodg at. .. Owl Drug; Co. Corner retb and Barney St. PRESCRIPTIONS Compounded Accurately and Delivered Promptly Th preirrlptlon buslneta Is primarily our business, and we hex It down to a fine point. All the rare druga are carried In our Immense stork and only the com petent pliarmaolHla are employed. Thla department la conduct ad in a ?ulet place by Itself and apart roni all other branches of the business. Deliveries made every where. IXUMUI ft KcOOITsTXX.1. DftUO CO., Cor. lets and Dodge ats. OWl Dana , OO., leth and Barney. Ha