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the omaita Sunday hee: January 22, 1011. Tub Omaha Sunday Hick. FOUNDED nt EDWARD ROSEWATKH. VICTon HUSEWATEK, EDITOR. KntsrM nt Omiln postofflce aa secotid eiaas matter. 1EHM9 OK RriiSCK.rTlON. flimilB Tir nn voa r ....... . 11. si.fr'' : l-ally 'fee (without fcundavl. one year. M.i , Dally !'. and Hun-Jay. one year H t DEU VKHKD BY f'AHKlKR. j Fveni ig t'.ee ltko,,t Sunday). t"r'rl. tvni! i( lire (with fiund.iv). rr week ..lc la y He lint i.idlnar iinrlav) per htpk ,i U.iiy Het (without Bundayi. l-r k..iw!, Ade res all complaints of l'"''i'H,,m'nt i dellvi ry to City circulation l-icpai tmem. OFFICES. j Omaha The Vv Buildlnr. bot th Omaha .H N. Twenty-fourth St. Co inr Kluffs-li Bcott Street. Llij-oln 2fl Mule Building th'- ago--MH Marquette Building. Karaaa City-Itellance pulldlng. New York-:'! West Thirty-third street. Washington-77 Fourteenth Street. N. W. COKnESl'ONDENC'E. 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If)'.), was aa fol io jr a: 4i,r70 t .44,000 43, to 45,oO 43,670 .43 4 ' 4',C0 I 4.3,83 43,55ft 1 43,400 II 44,380 II .. .43,580 II 43,400 14 ,330 It 43,970 17 43,610 IS 44,830 II .,. 43,520 10 43.6S0 SI 43,640 IS 44,200 44,330 St 44,690 IS 44,350 ! 44,400 JT 44,250 21 45.350 IS 43,990 10 43,580 SI,...' 43,640 l 4350 Total X,356,7W returned Copies 11,483 Nat Total 1,344,387 Diilljr Averse 43,364 DWKJHT V7ILUAMS, Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to befora ma thia Slat day of December, 1310. HUBERT 11 UiNTKK, Notary Public ubscrlbera leaTlnar th eltjr teua porarlljr shoald bare Tha Be walled to them. Addreaa will changed a aftea as requested. Nobody objects to poor writing on a bank check. Mr. Pomerene is one of Ohio's faithful democrats. The Commoner. Pass on In, senator. One great trouble about the "voice of the people" Is that it is too easily imitated. Now that the world haa obtained Caruso'a Ideas on matrimony, it may roll along In Its regular groove. A San Francisco preacher lost $28, 000 in a fake gold mine venture. The way of the transgressor is hard. A Boston opera singer waa fined $10,000 for failing to sing. Gee, a full night's profits blown to the winds! "Iet us all go to the auto show and pick out new cars," Bhouta the Phila delphia Inquirer. Ar they giving them away? "I expect to live to see New York a prohibition city," says a temperance orator. There is your mustard seed faith for you. An Indiana man writes to a local paper to learn of a school that teaches manicuring. Must want to get even with aoniebody. But the horror of dying rich seems to have driven neither Mr. Carnegie nor Mr. Rockefeller to any really des perate act as yet. The election of United States sena tors by direct vote is taking advantage of the shifting sands iu the upper house of congress. Why did they call It Schenectady? aska a reader. Probably because that was the nearest they could come t fitting a name to it. There ia at least room for the reto:t courteous to the assertion by the cold storage man that It Is "bad taste" to criticise that industry. The constitution of Nebraska limits the time to Introduce bills to the first forty days of the legislative session Do your shopping early. "We will nominate Governor Mar mott or Champ Clark for presldeut," says "Joe" Bailey. Nice of him nt to say, "I will uomlnate." It may yet be necessary to summon the fire department to put out the fire of indignation that is raging within the breast of City Clerk "Dan" Butler The mystery of the duke of Oporto's announcement that he will pay his debts $300,000 has not yet been cleared up in London. They cannot locate the heiress. Still, lowering of educational stand ards by theological seminaries as i means of increasing the enrollment of students Is a poor way to elevate the ministry and answer the question, "Why do more men not attend church?" Just to remind us that be is still In the land of the living. ex-Governor Shallenberger breaks loose with an admonition against amending the sacred deposit guaranty law in any way. Presumably, the ex-governor thinks this law so perfect that it could ot possibly be improved "With Proper Safeguards." In his serial diacusr.lon of "Na- tlonallsm and l'roRre. " I'oloncl , Roosevelt haa come out for what Is known aa the Oregon plan of popular i.oernment subject, however, to varl- I ous qualifications which may hp con- j dcns-ed into the phrase, "with proper safe - guards." The pist of the con . . initi.tiv anri rp elusion aa 10 tne initiative ami re fcrenduii). for example, la contained in this sentence: ieiiee imhi 11 hihuu oe hum. ,lT ,he p.in.ipie ..f the initiative andj'ause U ' Hhtly regarded as a fault. . referendum applied In in..sl of our suites. . , always provided that It h so safe-guarded or In a spirit of leiltv. If It Is tendered tou easy to Invoke either process, the re sult can be only nil' hlevous. Presumably, the sitting legislature of Nebraska will submit to the people some kind of an initiative and refer endum amendment to the state con stitution, and the question really at Issue is. What are the proper safe guards? The initiative anil referendum have bcen tried in several states, but in no two of them in the tame form, and in no state have they worked out to com plete satisfaction. The one state which has boasted loudest about them ami secured the most advertising from them. Oregon, has admittedly a very crude form of the initiative and referendum, and Instead of furnish ing the model, furnishes the object lesson of what should be avoided. As developed in Oregon the defects of the initiative and referendum include (1) Incentive to legislative Instability; (2) bewilderment of the voters by a multi plicity of measures; (3) excessive ex pense of submission; (4) failure to settle anything because each rejected measure is presented again at the next election, and (u) danger of conflict between popular-enacted and legislature-enacted measures. In Oregon, where the percentage of petitioners to Invoke the initiative and referendum is comparatively small, no proposition, however, far fetched, has been known to have fallen because of lack of signatures to the petition. In fact, it is reported on fairly good authority that an organization exists In Oregon, with membership distributed through the various counties, for the express purpose of supplying petitions on de mand for a consideration, so that the submission of any proposed measure becomes one simply of finding some one sufficiently Interested to put up the price. The object of the Initiative and re ferendum, aa stated by Colonel Roose velt, is to provide a way where the legislature falls to act on a bill, for which there Is "a genuine popular de mand," to compel action, and simi larly on any bill "Important enough to arouse genuine public interest," to enable the people to insist upon the bill being referred to a popular vote. "Proper safe-guards," therefore, would confine the use of the initiative and referendum to measures important enough to be backed up by a genuine popular demand, and yet the difficulty and must be, to determine what legislative proposals measure up tp this rule of importance. This cer tainly stops far short, of the conten tion that the people should rule di rectly and make laws through the Initiative and referendum at any time and on any subject without serious effort or burdensome expense; that if a majority of the people really de mand a law, they ought to have It at once and If It fails to turn out to be what was expected, they ought to be able to repeal it without waiting for the aid or consent of any legislative body. Even the most earnest advo cates of the initiative and referendum now see that unlimited and irrespon sible law-making by direct vote would defeat Its own purpose and would only bring on new evils of a different kind. Incidentally, it should be noted that Colonel Roosevelt does not advocate the initiative and referendum for all states or as a cure-all for all social ills. He advocates them merely as devices to give effect to the popular will, the assumption being that the existing form of representative gov ernment does not meet requirements. "If In any given state, Vermont, for insiance, or Massachusetts, or New Hampshire, or New Jersey, or New York," he says, "the people are not now ready to adopt either, or even if they never become ready , why, that is their affair, and the genuinely progrebslve leader will no more ostra cise and read out of the company of progressives a New England state which thinks It can achieve popular government without the referendum, than he would read out some state In another part of the country because it haa never adopted the town-meeting." And he adds. "The end is good government obtained through genuine popular rule. Any device that under given conditions achieves this end, is good for those conditions, and the value of each device must be tested purely by the answer to the question, does it, or does it not, secure the end In view? If we in Nebraska are to have the initiative and referendum, then they should be surrounded by the proper safeguards, and these safe-guards should be devised to conform with conditions existing here not elsewhere, and designed to enable the majority, and not a minority to rule. During the recent campaign in Ne braska the Anti-Saloon league spokes men were continuously vociferating that professions of sympathy with their cause would not pass muster un lets coupled with pledges to support the bill formulated by their legislative committee. Now these Anti-Saloon league spokesmen are out declaring ,hat n"th" ,he au,hor nor ,h fornl l" "p. .an, If only it be aimed in the desired di- rectlon. If the anti-aalooniatg w 111 let I The Carnegie Institution of Ke the brewery bunch draw the bill they ' tearch has already done much for may be able to get It through unani inously. Profanity. A too common fault ia profanity. It la found among gome very good men. It Is doubtless so common be- Hy-words trip off the tongue and are gone i)f.f0re the speaker realizes they have been uttered. But you ask. What harm Is it? The harm cer tainly cannot be determined by any hard and fast rule. That la scarcely the right standard by which to meas ure Its Influence, anyway. We do not commonly prefer the negative to the positive view. If you ask what good profanity does the answer is easier. Profanity is a useless waste of words In the first place. It is expres- give, possibly, but expressive of pas- sion that could be better expressed by a better choice of words. Profanity is expletiveIt serves to till in, but is a miserable substitute for real word9. It seems to Indicate an exhausted vocabulary. After a man has done his best to tell his meaning, or his feelings, in acceptable language and finds he still has emotions unex pressed, be draws on profanity, utters a few red-hot oat ha. In so doing he has raised the signal of distress. Do curses suggest strength, then, or weakness? They are not even a good safety valve for the temper, for oaths and vile names offend refined tastes and sensitive self-resepect and lead to further complications. One use or abuse of this method of expression and communication that is extremely offensive is that practiced in public places in about every city, in spite of all efforts to prevent it. Here It Is a nuisance and an abuse without justification and should be curbed as much as possible. Not only does it offend women, but it carries its evil influence to the ears of children, who require no early training in that sort of thing. Our language suffers seri ously from slang and vernacular ex pressions, which are, after all, only lapses of profanity. Unifying the Church. Attention has been called frequently in the last few years to the subject of the unification of the church, and it has not all been mere talk. Great headway already has been made to ward a closer relation between various Protestant denominations. Creeds and doctrines are not as generally magnified today as they were in former years. Denominational lines of separation are disappearing, and where they are not the differences are not as sharply emphasized. Of course, it is easy to believe that this change is due chiefly to natural evolution that has led the church along with other agencies of uplift out into a broader field of reason and toleration. Nor has it been, neces sarily, at the expense of orthodox re ligion. While the present may not be an age distinguished for doctrinal dog matism, neither is it an age of mani fest unorthodoxy. This unifying of forces sets a wholesome example to the world. It shows the church to be more concerned about the fact of re ligion than any fiction contrived by man for its worship. And thia is progress which gives the churches a better grip on their claim of serving divinity. The more union there Is among the churches the more power they may ex pect to wield over unbelief. The three branches of the Methodist church that are coming together are the Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist Episcopal South and the Methodist Protestant. They represent respec tively 2,801,788, 1,518,854 and 184, 097 communicants under a church census taken in 1903. Doubtless all have made large gains since then. In addition to these three divisions of the Methodist ch..r.:h there are four teen others, with a ccublned member sip of 1,GK0.006 utirfi the same cen bus. Probably all m:j:lt come In un der one bend withoit. icing violence to the cause of rclMv.vf. When num bers like theefl t. 'Mte their combined influence caauct help but exceed their separate influences. More Millions for Science. Mr. Carnegie's additional gift of $10,000,000 to the Carnegie Institu tton of Research shows his continued determination to endow the leaders of the race, thus carrying out the Nobel theory of philanthropy. He has been scolded by some for not doing more for the unfortunate, the man who Is down. Those who are worthy cer tainly come in for philanthropy's con slderatlon. But Mr. Carnegie's pur pose is to serve humanity by speeding the forerunners, by tempting them lo excellence. The causes to which he chooses to give bis money are world causes of transcendant im portance. He seeks to benefit man kind not for today only, but for all time. He is throwing a light across the sea of ages for the revelation of the truth hidden in mystery since the dawn of time. It is natural that a mind and ca pacity large enough to accumulate such a colontaal fortune should com prehend prodigious purposes In the distribution of that fortune. And it is well, too, for others with lees wealth than Mr. Carnegie possesses can take care of the personal appeals of unfortunate humanity and are doing it, but tbey could not essay to do what this man with his multi-million la doing. There ia glory enough for all, if that la needed, by each working in hia own sphere of influence. science. and it will be enabled by this i constant nurturing care and watching additional $10,000,000 to extend itejto keep it up to these high ideals, usefulness. The groat science of ex- i . ploring the heavens to which so much J Nativity of Nebraska Senators, of its energy is committed has been fac, lnat Nebraska la to be set forward by generations and Mr. j Carnegie becomes enthusiastic in dls- j fussing what la yet to be revealed But if these achievements are too in tangible for practical taste, equally as many material discoveries may be exhibited, those of a most matter-of-fact, dollar-and-rents value. It is not occult science only that is benefited. Diamonds and Grand Opera. The country is one step nearer the solution of the grand opera problem, led thither by one of the managers of this department of the amusement en terprise. "I never saw more diamonds and precious stones flashing In my life than In St. Paul. That city ousht to have a week of grand opera." Musical taste and artistic tempera ment, what boots it? Both are vin dicated. Where diamonds shine and precious stones flash, there grand op era should thrive. By adding one more proposition It becomes a syllogism. At any rate the logic is complete. St. Paul Is far-famed for its talent for music. What of it? Though it have prodigious love for music and have not diamonds and precious stones, it has become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbal at the box office. This is no time for classics. Art Is old-fashioned. Away with your musi cal temperament. Let's see your gems, how they glitter. A ruthless syndicate Informed a diva she could not sing except where it contracted her. She was offended. Her voice was her own. She went straightway to a far western city that sits upon the ocean side. There, though halls and theaters were closed to her, she found plenty of eager ears upon the street. Into these she poured volumes of sweet melody. The peo ple cheered, as people do so often without knowing the inside facts. They did not see the diamonds, but learned later that the diva did, saw them even before Bhe began to sing. But the people saw them, too, when afterward they learned how valuable the diva's voice was to a certain business inter est in front of whose great building the diva sang. So when you hear a diva sing, look for the diamonds displayed by those who listen. Honorable Discharge. President Taft strikes the keynote of a great truth when, in declining to sanction a measure for the relief of a soldier "dishonorably" discharged for cause, he declares, "To approve the bill would be to nullify the value and high character of an honorable discharge." The special feature of this case is that "dishonorably dis charged" soldiers are not eligible to pensions, and the man sought to be benefited here, like others, probably wanted to be in position at some fu ture time to receive a pension. It is, therefore, possible to oppose the meas ure on principle from the lower level of monetary consideration, for a pen sion represents a reward for services faithfully performed by soldiers "hon orably," not "dishonorably, dis charged. But the president considers it from a higher ethical standpoint. He takes the position that it is not fair and just to the man who stays through the heat and burden" of the day and serves his country the best he can, to place him on no higher plane of merit than the deserter. For the president to take any other view of the question would tend seriously toward disorgan ization and disaffection in the army, the navy and any other branch of pub lic service where distinctions have to be made between the true and the false, the faithful and the faithless. Our Business Conscience. A New England writer in a current magazine declares a new conscience has appeared in our business world, better than the old conscience. The old was purely commercial, he says, conducting business for the money there was in it, while the new con science Is philanthropic and "conducts business for the service it can render the community. The old corporation had no soul. The new one is distinctly human." This is refreshing, even though not entirely convincing. Are the corpora tions of the present, then, correct in bewailing the prejudice and hostility of the public? It is possible that cor porations and business consciences have never been as bad as they were pictured, but it is certainly true that they are not so simple as this writer contends. It would be interesting to have a list of those corporations in business for the service they can render the community. It does not seem necessary to go to such extremes to show that the business conscience has undergone improvement. The writer referred to recalls that thirty years ago a railroad president dared thunder "The public be damned." and adds that railroad presidents are not saying that today. That is true, and not many were say ing It thirty years ago. We do find improvement in the attitude which big Interests have been forced to take toward the government and the people. It is an improvement for which we have to thank those who possessed and used the power to bring these rorporstlons to a better realitatlon of their duty and the publlc'a rights. Thia may have awakeried a now busi ness conscience, but, without denying credit where credit la due. we see that thia new conscience requires a represented in the next congress by if8 flrflt native Nebraska t'nited States senator. Invests with some interest an Inquiry as to the nativity of our sena torial line. The list, with the year and state of birth, is as follows: When Name. Horn V here Horn. . .Ohio l nottiRS v . i ipton iii i John M Thayer IS.'" Mass. I'ltlneas W. Hitchcock . . 1 S3 1 ... New York I Algernon 8. raddock .... 18.10. Alvln Maunders 1 S 1 7 C'liHrles II. Van Wyek.. ISit Charles !". Manderson . . .. 1 S 3 7 . William V. Allen 1817 John M. Thurston 1S47 Monroe U. Hay ward 1M0 Joseph II. Millard 1S3. ..New York . Kentucky ...New York Penn. Ohio ...Vermont New York ( 'nriada Cliatles It. Dietrich 1S.-..1 Illinois Ulmer J. Ilurkett IStiT Iowa Norrls Brown 1st!;; Iowa Gilbert M. Hitchcock. ... 1 S . ..Nebraska All of Nebraska's senators up to this time have come from the states to the east of us, but with the source of supply taking a westward course almost continuously, crossing finally from Illinois into Iowa, and at last into Nebraska. The naked truth about Kansas is that it is deficient In art. Its legisla ture ia about to pass a bill making a penalty for any woman to appear in public with skirts not below the knee. Another blow at the Btage. Notice how promptly and com pletely he quieted down when the world discovered his name was Jef fries Davis, instead of Jefferson Davis. It made the discovery in about the Fourth of last July. One of the Burbank exhibits at the Land show illustrates how the plant wizard -has turned string beans into wax beans. There is nothing on view, however, to demonstrate his ability to resurrect has-beens. Pur old friend, "Al" Sorenson. pro poses to substitute Mr. Hitchcock for Mr. Bryan as leader of the democratic party. Does he want to deprive the republicans of their chief political asset? For some unaccountable reason our newly elected United States senator failed to declare in his speech of ac knowelgement to the legislature whether he was for or against parcels post. According to a news dispatch "Prof. Hale on Mount Wilson has discovered 60,000 new worlds." How that would have gladdeted the longing heart of old Alexander the Great. A Steel Pointer. Indianapolis News. Cheer up! Perhaps It Is salaries Instead of wastes that the pteel trust Is going to reduce. Former presidents of the corpora tion got 100,00i) a ear, but the new presi dent is to get only .V),000. "What a fliaae. Mr t'ooutrynien." St. Louis (jlobe-Demoorat. The changa from the dollar dinner to the terrapin banquet as a feature of the annual j gatherings of detnocrattcs atatesmen will be something of a shock to the well-es-tabllnhed diet of men like Colonel Bryan. Fadlnar ilor of the D. II. New York World. Passes for free transportation Issued by the Long Island railroad now contain the provision that holders must surrender their seats to paying passengers on crowded trains. It is a sorrowful Ions of prestige since the days when a man traveling on a pass enjoyed superior privileges over pas sengers for revenue only. railllll Off the Public Mage. Springfield Republican. With his departure for the south, on ac count of his health, Senator Aldrlch vir tually closes bla public career. Inasmuch as his term In the senate now lias leas than two months to run. He has been seen very seldom In the senate chamber this winter, a fact due more to an enfeebled physical condition than to a lack of Inter est In his senatorial duties. Correction a Singular Uralsalon. New York Tribune. Cone.rens will repair a singular onilnslon In military legislation if It passes the pend ing bill allowing the secretary of war to drop from the rolls army offcers absent without leave for more than three months Officers whose absence have been enforced by Jail sentences must now be carried on the rolls, because they cannot be court martialed. Such a situation belongs to comic opera, not to the serious environment of military life. A BLIFr THAT FAILED. Promised Libel Cult Against f'olouel Hooaevrlt tailed Off. New York Tribune. Great disappointment will be fell by the critics of Colonel Roosevelt because the suit which Governor Baldwin of Connecti cut threatened to bring against the colonel f.tr calling him retrogressive on the Tiench Is off. They had delighted to picture the colonel being brought to Justice and "taught some law," as Governor Baldwin put It; at any rate, hauled up with a round turn for his "reckless" criticism and made to acknowledge his error. But It now ap pears that, having had a couple of months for reflection after the heat of the cam paign passed, the Connecticut jurist has thought better of It. 1-lke most campaign threats of suits for slander or libel, his threat will never be carried out. and Colonel Hoosevelt may enter Connecticut without fear of being dogged by process servers. No decision that Judge .Baldwin ever rendered on the bench waa wiser than the one which he has Just reached. As the Tribune showed at the time, the colonel amply Justified his criticism by quoting Judge Baldwin's opinion in the lloxle rase. In a suit for slander the Judge would not have had a leg to stand on. and his suit. Instead of giving the colonel a little lesson in law. would have given the Judge a little lesbon. That might have been diverting, but it would have been superfluous. Gov ernor Baldwin does not need any lesson in law, as bis determination not to biing an i action shows. ' People and Events In the opinion ,.f rt Mm llUM'l I OUI t slam li is the height of extra nKan-'t ones wf tt, t,-fM,k In little ,.,,1 , yoi k ' li file fr. ni n uutomul.llt h , loud line xinoki. (in people wh,, wnlk. The recent judicial itrllvemiK licit Is pot a bird utlcilv full,.,! a jubilant iniKle In. odd stonier In the opinion of an Itoliuti.i to .-, to K"o- of c th.it n to r.oke . 'r. Irs ltll to- es'snry of .acco ouiianiSK Kenns as h life, and its sHle on Sumlav doesn't );ir the constitution A C'lilcano professor announ. c I tint liens Willi toenails properly uianKuied nud cut short ate the most prolific laveis They can'l fool away Iheir time scratchlm;. With tenard to the prculltii itlrs of the went her. It Is worth not Ing that mid waves do not Increase the warmth of ie iHtlons between the ultimate consumer and the coal dealer The proposed matiimonial Heboid in New York City will have n notable expert at Its head If the negotiations with Nat IJoodwin reach a favorable conclusion, i'ho, only obstacle In sialit is that n divorce court annex initiht be needed under the ai ruiiKciuent. The harbor commission of Boston has laid hold of 2.0 acres of flutland which will be reclaimed from tidewater nnd coti xerted into n great railroad Httd steai".hlp terminal. The coinnilssionei s have $."0oo. OD at their disposal, and more to come If they "produce the Moods.'' Judue John D. Works, republican senator-elect from California, Is ttie son of a Kentucky lawyer, and was born In In diana . sixty-three years ago. At the age of 10 he enlisted in the Tenth Indiana and served throughout the civil war. In lvi he moved to San Diego, and has since been identified with the public and lcnal af fairs of California. He Is the author of severul law books, lias served on the up pellate bench on California, and is rated aa one of the most powerful lawyers at the bar. Miss Morosinl's romance Is a clever mix ing of sentiment and foresight rarely brought to light In New York. Saved from Injury In a runaway by Policeman Werner the grateful father of the rescued daugh ter looked up the cop's record, found it satisfactory and Induced him to become the trusted agent of the family. That wag four years ago. Association and Dan Cupid did the rest. The courage that checked a runaway team stood him well In wooing a girl who boasted of having spent $1(10,000 a year on clothes. SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT. t'leceland Plain Dealer: A Michigan preacher asks, "Will a gentleman tell a lie for 10 cents?" Our answer Is. who's making the offer? Doulsvllle Courier-Journal: A girl pastor in Maine Is to marry, but says she will continue to preach after marriage. Don't they preach after marriage as a rule? Boston Transcript: Atlanta preachers force their congregations' hands. They form an anti-begging trust and leave it to their flocks whether to receive messages of cheer, or the last groans of starvation. Hoston Herald: The minister who was a candidate for a vacant pulpit In rural Massachusetts last Sunday and took as his text, "Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knock," seemed to have a proper sense of tha Indignity of his position or he must be a genuine humorist. SPIRIT OK TIIK ARMY. Manifested In l'atrnt Deeded to the Public. Chicago Inter Ocean. The patent office Issued on January 8 patents Nos. 9bO,3oi-T-8-9, covering what is bald by competent authority to be a com plete system of multiplex telephony, Willi all necessary instruments for Its operation fully tested and perfected. By this system several conversations may be carried on at the same time over one wire, perhaps as many as ten. A sin gle wire circuit over which two conversa tions at the same time are regularly held is new in operation In Washington. No change lu present telephone Installation!, other than the attachment of the necessary Instruments, Is required, nor do the addi tional conversations Interfere with t lie working of the present instruments. Another remarkable feature of this In vention is that the use of It is absolutely free to the people of the t'nited States. Copies of the patents may be obtained at 5 cents each from the patent office and anyone may manufacture and use the In struments without the payment of any royalty whatsoever. The patentee Is Major George O. Hauler, assistant chief signal officer of t lie I'nlted States army. His invention, whicli he has spent the last year In developing and per fecting, was a by-product, as It were, of a research undertaken by the signal corps Into the practicability of wireless tele phones. Holding, with that high sense of honor which characterises the American army, that It would not be proper for him to piofit In a pecuniary way by an Invention made in his capacity as un officer of the army, Major Btiuler has taken out patents only that he might have due credit In the annals of science, ttnd has thrown his in vention open to unrestricted public use. 37th Annual ? Ma For thlrty-wven years A. Ilospc? has iieraonally sold over twenty eight thousand inatriimenta out of Omaha. Yes, liaa represented sev eral of the piano nianufac tuters ulnce 1874. CAN VOL' IlKAT IT? Think of haudllng tbn Kimball Piano and the Hallet-Davia 1'iano for nearly four decades, and the l'ianos ait 1 1 1 In use. livery year for all thia time we have a aalo a Tiano sale, lianos that have regularly brought $;!23 to $1M are selling now for flli.T lo HJiM.T for a.h or time payments, i'ianoa formerly 1350 to J45U Belling from i!:'.ri to $275, on easy payments. $1,000 Grand IMauoa down to $17u. Urand new Upright Pianos for $i:i!l. $1 a Week Buys Them Ui.d Upright Piinoi $50, $75, $100 and Up PIANOS RENT FOR $3.00 BUY EARLY A. E30SPE SERMONS BOILED DOWN. You will never fin. I peace In life by hid ing ft im oiir neighbors The moie n mini forghes hlmsi If the li s lie om i looks ill id hers. Many air pi a ing for power who eiily tin d t.i get up MP. I pel Spire The nowilcd tar is a better tr t of religion than a lo.ony ihuiili. Its no use talking about your faith If m. li neer tlnd a f i lend 111 you. Their Is no better world to thosa who b nothing to make this a better one. I he brotherhood of man does mean better wages. Put It also means belter work. No man crt knows how ninth hr tiusst s win n be losses a t ham e of ghing plrasuie. I Inn) rather be kissed by tin enemy that) wounded by a friend who en.lo) ed the Job kcfoinis come slowly betause we nil would nttliel wield the sx than 1'iiir the knile. I lie great Judge must look ut our luvui irs w l.t n ,c In. us our talk of low for lu neetlt . No man who tan he indifferent to tha sorrows of nun tan hu the loe of Ilea. M il In him. - Chicago Tribune. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Do your daughter help their mother with the housework'."' , We woniiiii t think of expecting it. Mill it I is lempi rnniental, (t lit I .axil Is In tetist . - t'iusliui g l'ost. "Doein'l your wife want the vole any more'.' " "No." replied Mr. Meekton. "She heard that out wesi they have been selling as low ss a titular apiece. Hint she retuses to pay alii in ion in hiii thing ao inexpen sive. ' W asliingioii Star. "I am a candidate for oui hand." ' Hut my parents have endorsed another t tiling man. ' "All right: I'll run as an Insurgent." Houston Chronicle. "My wife is always borrowing trouble" "What kind of trouble Is she borrowing now ."' '"She's afraid whiskers will be In st!e when our little boy grows up, so that he w ill not have a chance to show the cunning dimple In his chm." Chicago Itevurd I lei -aid. "I saw the cutest thing today," began Miss 1'HssitV, txyiy; It was a painting ol the ir er what Is the name oi' thnl llltlti gotl tiiat represents matrimony f" "Well, now, ' said Mr. Tliiud, "juu'rt got int." "! Mr. Tlmmld. this is so sudden." fathollc Standard and Times. "l.o you keep a srrapbook. Mrs. Kowdy V ' asketl her friend. Mrs. McUiuffey, apropos of nothing In particular. "Well, in a sort of a way," said Mrs. Howdy. " keep a diary, and w henever Mr. Knwciy ami 1 have a tttf 1 make a note of It." Judge. "Cleorge," said her husband's wife. "I don't believe you have smoked one of tlioie cigars 1 gave you on your birthday." "That's right, my dear," replied his wife's husband. "I'm going to keep them until our Willie wants to learn to smoke. ' Chicago News. THE PATH TO YESTERDAY. Madison Carweln In New York Times. There's a path that lends to Yesterday through flowers, Where the woodthrush Is a voire of magic song; Where the cricket snaps Its fairy whip for hours Anil a barefoot boy gees whistling all day long. There's a path that leads to Yestciday through dingles Of the forest, where the wood pool is an rye. And the sunbeam Is a twinkle soft that mingles Willi tile gladness of a girl who dances by. There's a path that leads to Yesterday a glimmer With the pearl and purple footsteps of the dusk. Where the first star leaps and flashes, like a swimmer. On the violet verge of twilight washed with musk. There's u puth tliut leads to Yesterday that's haunted With the shadows of old memories of bliss. And tlie gliosis of loves that roamed theie once, who counted livery moment by a heartbeat or a kiss. Oh, tho patli that lends to Yesterday! It's tailing! Don t you hear It? How It calls through many things! Through Its roses, llko tho memories no falling, U,l ll,A .1...... ...II Ira n..t ...1 1 . . t . .. t . ...... ' ' . , a ,,. ,, r. iiinmani tiuii .1 lll(j of wings. On the path that leads to Yesterday we've started; Hear It calling with Its many whlppoor wills. Like the voices of old happiness departui, Through I he darkness, where the ii)ooi rests on the hills. SIMPLE fREATMENI FOR A VELVETY COMPLEXION Mrs. Mae Martyn. authority on health and beauty, writing for the New York Herald, says: "Society women are discard ing taco powders and cosmetics and taking lo liquid preparations,' because powder lends to slop up tho pores and roughens the skin, ruining a complexion, while a good lotion clears the skin and keeps It in a healthy condition. "The lotion most popular In exclusive, circles Is made of spin max and is pre pared by dissolving 4 ounces of spurnis In H pint of hot water, then adding i tea spoonfuls glycerine. Tills Is much nicer lo apply than powder and does not rub off easily. It is Inexpensive, and Its use coon piuduces a soft and velety complexion. "Women using this recipe find it splendid for rough or oily skins, as It clears aa Well as beautifies." Adv. 1 5 1 3. 1 5 1 5 Doulit$t. J HAU.ET-DAVIS 7)1 , , I,,,,,, , 4ar. i