Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1902, Page 14

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Remit by draft, express or postal order, 8 {lhl! to The Publishing Company. nly 2-cent stamj l&‘(‘e ted in payment of mail accou ersonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not ILC!Q(CG THE BEE PU Bl ISHIN LOM PANY. sunn'-u per STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, 8s,: George B. Taschick, secretary of the Bes Publishing Company, being duly !'l)"fl. says that the actual number of fuil and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of July, 1302, was as followa: 29,630 1. ..20,8510 Less unsold and returned copies. Net total sules, Net dally average. .. #9252 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and swory to before me this 31st day ot July, A D. 2. (Beal.) M. B. HUNGA ‘Notary Public. B e It's pretty hard to get ahead of the fceman in the long ron. King Edward bas one week's respite to get his courage up to the coronation point. — Those youthful monarchs of Spain and Holland will have to do something novel again to keep well up before the public. Sme—— Tha presnmption fe that Plarnant M. gan did not lave to ask for time pay- ments when he struck a bargain for that London house. S—— There must be some mistake about this latest South'American revolutiona movement. A real battle in which sol- diers are killed is altogether out of the ordinary. ——————— Wouldn't people have been disap- polnted if August had not brought mid- summer heat? Then why should anyone act as If he were surprised at the warm weather? Ee—— It is noticeable that the democratic national committeemen representing dé- batable states are not answering querles as to the advisabllity of running Bryau for a third time in 1904, V—iixv————"1 If the government rts to print its own postage stamps, it may be expected #0on to make its own envelopes and turn out its own postal cards. When it goes into the postal supply business, there can be no good reason for stopping half way. ST ‘When a gold democrat was nominated for mayor of St. Louls, Colonel Bryan advised his friends to bolt the ticket. Now that a gold democrat has been nominated to head the state ticket In Michigan, will Mr, Bryan tender the same kind of advice? Eaaaa———1 The Canadian minister of the marine Is inspecting the harbor work In Lake Michigan to get pointers on dredging and Dbreakwater construction, If ‘ he ‘wants to learn how to wrestle with sand bars he should come out berg for a look at the shirty Missourl. If the Boers want to get pointers on farming they will be going to the right place when thoy send representatives to the United States to report on agricul’ tural conditions here. A real candid re- port might advise them to renounce South Africa and transplant their Boer colonies to this country. ey If the Second congressional district of Nebraska is to have a non-resident rep- resentative In congress, why not get somebody who has profound convictions ob public issues and has the ability and courage to express his views? With all the federal bulldings completed that it will need for the next twenty years the Second congressional district surely does not need a Santa Claus, traveling in an omnibus, with gifts for cities ambitious to have new postoffice buildings. And pow come a complaint from Vienna that stationers see irreparable injury to thelr business by the substitu- | tion of picture postal cards in the place of letters. The practice of sending friends picture postal cards as souvenirs of travel has asswmued colossal propor- tions not only in Europe, but also in this country where tourists have welcomed them-as & much-appreciated rellef from letter writing, at the same time afford- ing the means of assuring friends that they bave mot been forgotten. These missives of thoughtfulness, often highly artistic in themselves, serve every pur- pose that & uote did of old. but they cannot stop lettgr writing even for tour- Ists, because letters alone can couvey messages embodying ideas, impressions and experiences while in soclal corre- spondence no postal eard exposed In transit to public gasze can ever lutrude. RUCK ISLAND RECAPITALIZATIUN. Governor Cummins of JTowa h sounded the alarm to awaken the coun- try to a realization of the perils in the reorganization of rallfoads, that if not checked would precipitate a financial ln-r sh more destructive than any the world has ever witnessed. The pro- posed recapitalization of the Rock Island | system is In many respects much more ‘dungemul than the proposed merger ’throulh the Northern Securitles com- pany, which has been up to this time 80 vigorously resisted by Governor Van | Bant of Minnesota, backed by the over- | whelming sentiment of the people of the Northern Star state. \ The menace to public safety lies In the conversion of watered stocks into inter- est-bearing bonds that will constitute from the day of their issue part of the fixed charges of the railroad that lssues them. When it is understood that a raliroad bond is not merely a mortgage upon the railroad and its equipment, but upon every acre of land and every dollar's worth of produce of the section tributary to it, the criminal enormity of this bond inflation can best be ap- preciated. This system, first introduced in this country in the exchange of the Burling- ton railroad stocks at 200 cents on the dollar for bonds bearing 4 per cont tnterest, and more recently in the con- version of Steel trust stocks into Steel trust bonds, embodies the germs of de- struction to our entire financial fabric. The over-capitalization of corporate en- terprises by the issue of watered stock which has been so common for many years, is within itself most pernicious because of its tendency to stimulate un- healthy inflation, over-speculation, ex- cessive tolls and exorbitant charges. It s but natural that stockholders should strive for large dividends even when they buy their stocks way below par, and the managers of every over- so | capitalized corporation feel it incumbent upon them to exact what the traffic will bear in order to satisfy the stockholders. In prosperous times many, If not most, of the over capitalized corporations are able to earn dividends without seriously disturbing the commercial interests. In times of depression the holders of inflated stocks are compelled to forego their @ividends, and in times of distress they are compelled to sacrifice their stocks at any price they will bring in the market. ‘While mutations of the stock exchange and shrinkage in stock values may serfously embarrass great corporations, it does not necessarily wreck them, but when a corporation converts its stocks into bonds it creates a fixed charge and compels the corporation to meet that charge promptly and regularly at the risk of going into the hands of a re- celver. When the earnings fall below the cost of operation “hese fixed charges cannot be met except by horrowing, and such loans are always made when morey is scarce and dear. This is the condition into which the reorganization of the Northern Pacific and Burlington merger, and the re- capitalization of the Rock Island would invariably lead. The conversion of Bur- lington aud Rock Island stocks into bonds compels the owners of these prop- ertles to meet enormously increased fixed charges at stated periods and fail- ing to do so, their corporations would Le forced to the wall. So long as pres- ent 'prosperity continues they -would doubtless encounter no difficulty, but should another era of depression set in thelr fallure to meet the fixed charges would bring on a tremendous panic that would carry wreck and ruin in its wake from the Atlantie to the Pacific and clear across the ocean. Whether Governor Cummins will be able to prevent the consummation of the Rock Island deal Is problematic. 7The new method of bond-watering may not have been covered by national, inter- state, or antl-trust legislation, or state regulation of rallroads, but Governor Cummins has struck the keynote. The new system of conversion of stocks into bonds should be imade a high erime, and every man convicted of organizing or financing such deals should receive the penalties that are meted out to cm- bezzlers and highway robbers. If Gov- ernor Cummins succeeds in nothing more than in awakening the country to its peril he will be entitled to the gratl- tude of the American people. CHILD LABOUR I THE SOUTH. The disclosures being made in regard to the employment of child labor’in ‘the south are attracting a good deal of at- | tention and it s wmost probable that | the effect will be to bring about & much needed reform in this matter. The number of children employed in the southern factories cannot be stated ex- actly, but it can be_estimated roughly from certain figures given in the last report of the North Carolina bureau of {labor. According to this report, 7,600 | children under 14 years of age are em- ployed in 261 mills In that state. As | the total number of operatives in the cotton mills of North Carolina is 30,273, it appears that about one-fourth of the employes are children. Doubtless this proportion holds for the four other cot- ton maunufacturing states—South Caro- lina, Georgh, Alabama and Mississippl. The total number of cotton mill em- ployes in all the five states is 88,829, The number of child workers, therefore, probably exceeds 22,000. & According to the report of the Ala- bama committee on the employwent of children in factories, the average wage of the child has decreased from 32 to 20 cents per day in that state, while in sowe places in the south the dally wage Is as low as 9 cents for twelve hours of labor. It goes without saying that nearly all the children employed in the mills an' factories of the south are utterly Miterate and It is not dif- cult to concelve what thelr moral con- dition must be. It is a really deploruble state of affairs, which calls for prompt remedy, and it is to be hoped that a leading southern paper is correct in de- lcurln‘ that the day 1s not far distant when this shvery of children In the south will be abolished. e ] A POSSIBLE SOLOTION. If the report from Rome as to the in- tention of the vatican regarding the Spanish friars i the Philippines is well founded, there is reason to expect that this question will be digposed of with- out difficulty, The plan is said to be to have the friars who are objectionable to the natives leave the island in small numbers at different {imes and as they number only 450 it Is thought they can all be withdrawn by the time Governor Taft and the apostolic delegate to be sent to Manila will be ready to resume negotiations. Of course If it shall be found that the authorities at Rome are carrying out such a plan It would be an easy matter to delay the reopening of negotiations, for which no specifid date has been fixed. It is to be hoped the report is well- founded, since the effect will be to put a stop to any agitation of the matter in this country by assuring those disposed to agitate that the vatican is in accord with this government as to the desira- bility of the withdrawal of the Spanish friars in the interest of the maintenance of peace. When the would-be agitators are convinced of this, as they must al- ready be of the concurrence in the gov- ernment’s attitude of the foremost, rep- resentatives of the Catholie church in the United States, they probably will drop the matter and allow It to be set- tled by men wiser than they and not less devoted to the interests and zealous for the welfare of the church. It should have been sufficient for these persons, as loyal churchmen, that at the final Interview with Governor Taft the pope expressed himself well pleased with the negotiations that had taken place and gave assurance of his personal attention to the matters to be arranged, with par- ticular reference to the withdrawal of the friars. That it was not suggests that there are Catholics in this country who do not possess that complete and unquestioning confidence in tHe vatican which all of that religion are generally assumed to have. At all events, there is good reason to belleve that the friar question, which it was feared would prove troublesome, will bé solved without much difficulty and in a way that will leave no just ground for dissatisfaction. There will be no persecution of the friars and noth- ing will be done to impair the privileges or the prestige of the Catholic church | in the Philippines, Indeed there is no doubt that the influence of the church | there would be strengthened by the | withdrawal of the Spanish friars and it is highly probable that this is the feel- ing of most of the church authorities at Rome. A VETERAN STATESMAN'S VIEWS, Abram 8. Hewitt of New York, for- merly a prominent democratic leader and & man of large experience in prac- tical affairs, but now retired from both business and politics, discussed in a re- cent Interview existing conditions, with gpecial reference to the relations of cap- ital and labor and to industrial combina- tions. Mr. Hewitt expressed the opinion that the country is running in the right and safe trend and said he had confi- dence in the future of our public prog- ress. The vast organizations of capital and the community of interesta he did not regard as belng inimical to the pub- lic Interests, It placed under proper reg- ulations, but rather of value to the coun- try. He urged publicity as a necessary protection against unjust and illegal combinations of capital.\ “It is wani- fest,” he said, “that the right method of settlement jnvolves publicity as to the profits of business. There 18 undoubt- edly great reluctance and some ground of objection to the disclosure of cost and profits, but as a matter of fact the trans- fer of business to large corporations has really made this information publie property.” He thought the objection to trusts is not to be found in the maguitude of thejr operations, which in the modern devel- opment of industry is unavoldable, It 1s only when the trust attempts to create a wonopoly and succeeds in destroying competition that it becomes injurious to the public welfare. Mr. Hewitt regards it as extremely doubtful whether it is possible to malntain in this country an effective moneopoly. “Publicity, inspec- tion and discussion are the great safe- guards which the public can apply in order to correct abuses. All organiza- tions which avail thewnselves of the pro- visions of the law for the creation of corporations should be required to re- port the result of their business and be open to the inspection and scrutiny of public officers appointed for the purpose. Publicity as to profits and losses would at once remove the most serious cause of strikes, which often take place when it is impossible for the employer to con- cede the demands of his men, because his profits will not warrant the conces- slon. With proper informatiou, the in- telligence of the workmen may be relied upon not to make an issue which can only result in fallure.” Always a friend of labor, Mr. Hewitt regards its organization as legitimate and mecessary. “It should be a matter of congratulation that the formation of trades unions contemporaneously with the rapid growth of large corporations whose stock 1s divided into such small shares as to admif of easy distribution, clears thé way for the new era when THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: every Intelligent workman will insist upon being an owner and every well- managed corporation will see that its workmen are directly interested in the results of the business. To effect this desirable end no compulsory legislation and no addition to the powers of cor- porations are needed.” Iu the opinion of Mr. Hewitt the industrial world has been steadily moving in the right direction for the weifare of mankind and he be- lieves it is not necessary to invoke any new principles of government or to in- augurate any revolution in order that capital and labor may be assoclated to- gether i peace and harmouy. These views of 3 man who bas been SUNDAY,, distinguished in politics and eminently succeseful in business are worthy of ‘careful consideration. They are In accord, there is every reason to belleve, with the intelligent and conservative opinlon of ‘the country and are espe- clally timely now when political parties and demagogues are making their ap- peals to popular passions and prejudices. SOURCE uF RL'S WOES, In a suggestive article in the current New York Independent, contributed by a saleswoman in one of the great de- partment stores of the metropolis, the writer takes exception to the frequent stories of mistreatment and abuse by employers and incidentally discloses the real source of the great buli of the shop- girl's woes. To quote her exact lan., guage, she says: Our store has a good reputation all over the city for the civility of the girls, but I must say thaf it is maintained by & great effort. The great majority of the women customers who come to us are finsolent and insulting. They seem to put out on the girls any anger that they have stored up. They treat us like the dirt under their feet and seem to think that we never had anything and never will have anything and that they ean do as they please with us. It a girl allows herself to be irritated into answering back nine out of ten of the women will report her to the superintend- ent and then if she's a new girl without a good record to fall back upon she will probably be dismissed, as the su; ent generally takes the customer ‘While there are, no doubt, cases of op- pression, and plenty of room for im- provement in the conditions of labor be- hind the counters in the great depart- ment stores, more widespread inquiry would doubtless produce general corrob- oration of this aspect of the situation. Many of the people, who lament most loudly the terrible struggle the poor shopgirl must endure, are themselves contributing to the most intolerable part of her employment. If the word of the shopgirl is to be taken as best evidence, she has more sorrow inflicted by the cus- tomers of the store 'than by the floor- walker, the superintendent and the head employers, and any movement ‘therefore designed to relieve the shopgirl of her woes and amellorate her condition must take In the inconsiderate bargaln-hunt- ing woman as well as the selfish grind- ing employer. PHILIPPINE LAND PRUB LEM. The Philippine bill provides that real estate may be acquired for public uses by right of eminent domain and it specifically makes this applicable to “any lands which on the 13th of August, 1808, were owned or held by assocla- tions,, corporations, communities, rell- glous orders or private individuals in such large tracts or parcels and in such manner as in the opinion of the com- mission injuriously to affect the peace and welfare of the people of the Philip- pine islands.”” It is further provided that all lands thus acquired shall be public property of the government of the islands and may be sold or leased temporarily for a period not exceeding three years, It is pointed out that the terms of this act will lmpose upon the govern- ment of the Philippines the necessity of dealing with a large amount of valua- ble property, which it cannot itself oper- ate and which ftherefore it will practi- cally be compelled to lease or sell, since it- would be out of the question ta think of trying to work the lands itself. The friar lands are to be purchased and the idea was that they should be at once resold after coming into the pos- session of the government to thé ten- ants who originally leased them from the religious orders. The dllemma pre- sented is as to whether the government shall go into the ungrateful business of exacting rent from the present holders of the lands, or compel them to pay something like the real value for the lands in their possession. In either case & _.troublesome situation might be created. Forcing rental from people who have not paid anything for years for the use of the lands would certainly cause more or less dissatisfaction, while compelling them te pay even a part of the real value of the lands would prob- ably be no less aggravating to many of the people. It is pointed out that should the government pursue a policy of sale it will almost inevitably find itself en- tangled in a mass of conflicting claims. On the other hand, skould it pursue & lease policy, it will be obliged to stand in the relation of landlord to the in- habitants—a relationship which might almost necessarily result in constant friction between administration and citizen. —————————— Like the fabled Alexander of old, John N. Baldwin of lowa yearns for other worlds to conquer. The field of ralroad politics in the Hawkeye state falls to furnish an adequate field for the display of his towering talents and so Colossus- like this great legal headlight bestrides the Missouri and divides time and at- tention with Nebraska, whose people without his beneficent oversight would be enveloped in constant chaos. How would Nebraska ever be able to get along without John N. Baldwin of lowat It is to be hoped the Union Pacific, to whose law department he has unselfis| Jent the lustre of his name, will realize how indispensable he has become to Ne- braska’s welfare and prosperity and pro- vide suitable bulwarks to protect us agalnst corporations in other states that are sure to_try to steal him from us as soon as they learn more fully of his ver- satility and the wonderful powers of persuasion he commands a¢ friend of the court, {o say nothing of all thfe other inmates of the statehouse. e The Wise His Vacation. New York World. The man who postponed his vaeation until August naturally thinks he is & wise man. But who knows what August has in Store for us? se Things He Missed. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Attention is called to the fact that George Washin, had no official yacht. Incidentally it might be remarked that the first predident bad wo furmace in bis ecel- lar, snd o plumbing, ssd mo telephone, AUGUST 8, 1902, There were a George missed. What About the Sod House! Buffalo Times. lot of the Pan-American grounds. Literary Fellows in Polities, Baltimore Ameri{can. At the rate at nation as long as I get the offices.” Properly Within Their Right. Atlanta Constitution. right to bgast of their “invincible army #0 prudentiy toward Dewey in Manila bay. Religa of Anclent History, Philadelphia Press. The last girl to strew flowers in La- fayette's pathway is dead in Morrisfown, N. J., at the age of 9. Washington's body bowever, is still with us at in- Chance to Patronize Home fin. Chicago Record-Herald. The English papers are saylog wherever golf goes there is an ingi demand for Scotch whisky. Let us hope, since the championehip has been wom by an American boy, that homemade goods may now supplant the Seotch product. wtry. that Prospect for Wireless Telegraphy. Philadelphla Ledger. The Berlin inventor who has succeeded in telephoning a distance of seven Kkilo meters, or a little more than four miles, without wires, by using a ray of light to carry the sound, may have hit upon a suc- cessful application of a well known sclen- tific principle; but the apparatus he calls for in order to extend the distance is wo costly that the device cannot be made of commercial value until it has been ,greatly simplified. This appears to be one of the improvements reserved for the future. The Farmer to He Envied. New York Financler, The farmer, considered in every light, is an individual much to be envied. As a never before; his capital account, ented in the value of his plant, {s appreciating, and his n- come yleld, based on present prices of his product, 1s above that of other industries or avenues of commercial investment. It is idle to repeat that he fotms the real back- bone of the country, and none will begrudge him the easy path into which he seems to have entered. As long as he is prosperous the country has nothing to fear In the way of industrial depression. —_— Where Iow. Pittaburg Gazette. Towa stands pecullarly representative of the great middle west, the region In which agriculture dominates, closely followed by manufacturing industry. It has no direct inte in the mining west, or the Im- porting east, but occuples a plane be- tween and above the two, capable of sym- pathy with either, but not prejudiced by the selfish views of one or the other. For this reason it most gratifying to_find Jowa standing so firmly for time-honored republican principles; so warmly com- mending Presidént Roosevelt and Attor- ney General Knox for the things accom- plished, as well as expressing utmost con- fidence in thelr purpose and ability to do Passing of Yi Indlanapolls New: The slaughter of the Yaqui Indians conm- tinues. The Mexicans have been making war on this tribe for many years. The Yaquis represented to be the bravest all red men. For years they have defled Mexican troops and have maintained an in- dependent existence, with a senjblance of government of their own, In the fastne of the mountains, Superior numbs at last overcome them. The dispatc] how a band of thirty of these Indlans, bhalt of them women, desperate from hunger and thirst, escaped from the cordon of Mexican troops to search for food and water. The world loves a brave fighter and sympathizes with ithe “under dog” and will lament that this starving band has been overtaken and overpowered. Some were shot where they made their last stand. Others were cap- tured and no doudt will meep their fate heroleally and stoically. Soon this tribe, like others, so eloqueptly described by George D. Preutice many years ago will “read their doom in the setting sun.” In a few more years the Yaquis will be & mere momory, PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Thomas Garland of New York is the sole survivor of the sidewheel steamship Arctie, which went down with 500 persons in 1850 off Cape Race. He is 88 years old. Old as Pope Leo XIII is, he recently gave an audience to & woman who was his nurse girl when he was a baby. Her pame is Anna Moroni, and she is nearly 100 years old. 7 King Oscar of Sweden is an admirer of American institutions, and few foreign monarchs are so conversant with the man- ners and usages of the United States. In American history Jefferson and Lincoln are King Oscar's particular heroes. Mrs. Elizabgth Todd of Todd's Station, near Benford, Ind., who celebrated ‘her 1024 birthday anniversary recently, was the mother of nine children, elght of whom are still living. She has fifty-one grandchildren and elghty-three great- grandchildren. The Buffalo Commercial relates that Richard Harding Davis once asked Charles It re- A. Dapa: “‘What constitutes news?’ you #bould see a dog bitiag & man,’ a man biting s dog, spare not money, men nor telegraph tolls to get the detalls to the Sun office.” Lars Moellers, the first Esquimaux jour- nalist, s d He began by printing ple< tures, the wood cuts himself Nordensjold e bi press and type. He set up and printed his paper himself, and then distributed it throughout Greea- land, traveling with sledge and suow shoes, Other Bsquimaux will continue his work. The czar of Russia is by no means the only royal person who wears & ring to which talismanic power is attributed by superstition. The German kaiser's band is always adorned with a queer old ring, said to be a Hohenzollern talisman. A fan- tastically quaint German legend says the ring was brought by & toad to the wife of Elector John of Brandenbury John D. Rockefeller dislikes automobiles, and with a ‘view of preventing them from trespassing on his vast domain, called Box- wood, at Potantico Hills, he has erected signs on his property ordering automobile owners to keep off Lis la The signs bear these words: ‘“‘Automobjles are not sllowed on the ground Mr. Rockefeller has fifty miles of private driveways on his many of which cover serpentine and run along steep embankments. Several times the millionaire's horses frightened by the machines, and this made bim decide to shut out automobile owners from bis lands. Watchmen are employed to enforce the rule, ‘Who wants a log cabin of historie tame? Apply (p person to the contractory who removed the directors’ headquarters from , which popular authors are going iito politics the cry soon will be: “I care not who writes the books of The Germans are properly within their and navy,” especially since the latter acted a, “don’t write it up. But If you and no automobile, and no daily paper.| SHCULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. [ good things that Boston. Globes Many clergymen are en- Joying their smnual outings at the shore good the citles mvh their absence. Milwaukee Sentinel: Solomon's temple have been discovered in | Samaria and Noah's ark has been found in 4, Chicago Chronlele: Locel clergymen are n denouncing “the rich man who on Sunday.” The rich man—with mighty few exceptions—doesn't pl solt on Sunday or on any other day, though you would make him very mad if you told him so. Boston Globe: The Chicago minister who protested in his pulpit Sunday against the odor af perfumery in church added that ““The church was never intended to be a mhllllnery establishment, but a place of wor- ship.” principally the men who did the shouting. He must be & regular two-edged sword. Nashville American: Every minister In Nashville, no matter of what denomination, ought to join the Methodist brethren in de- ¢lining to marry runaway couples or to injustice may be done by refusing to unite runaways, but the injury in such cases will be more than offset by the resultant benefits to soclety in the other direction. Secret marriages should not be tolerated at all, and there ought to be & law on the statute books debaring from office any county court clerk or deputy who conpives at such prac- tices by hiding out the marriage licen: Portland Oregonian: As & church that holds fast to the traditions of orthodoxy, the body known as the United Presbyterian is conspicuous among Protestant denominas tions. Bschewing argument, it meets in- teliigent doubt with denial and reassertion of ironclad belief. Higher criticism of the bible it denominates unbellef under a spe- clous literary name, and it reafirms its un- swerving ‘adherence to the historical belfet of the Protestant church in the verbal in- epiration and inerrancy of the seriptures. A position of this kind leaves no room for Since the walls of | l gu only you know.” DOMESTIO DIFFICULTIES. Chi Newn: “Is clu ?.ur writing 1" :-a-a the merchant, as hc‘ over |t ~ ' “my wife Ve, knows how o handle pen,’! gl “Her diction f- s-.lnmy pomet ¥ I jed )lnnr. With & deep no‘hln‘ when “"‘““’”&ma u'te very I wouldn't mind that at lll" ‘the seaside - the Juniform, but I her diction's all ‘rl compared with her tunln- 8. “1_don't eu Browning," said Miss re- wning only hreckie, belle, A led. the papers that laws were yashington, you kuow,” she Shouts of “Amen" were raised, and then the preacher remarked that it was countenance secret marriages. Sometimes | Catholl: .'.lw i May-I n..z' :o::n:c one. today wna’flqy ‘moch » "} (.mr": thoughttal pause)—Who ¢ think a minu ly—l e thinking. :flmfin- hard jever guess thal —You t way. of lzm.lhln( soft. Philadelphia Press: Deacon Jones—Abou! o wnl :: g0 to church for Is to show lh.lr w_clo rs. Jones—Well, they don't make a cloak of religlon, anyway. ones—Of course mot. It's too nexpensive. Think plain and Phiiadeiphia Record: Mrs. McCall-—Th hbo! f yours are vel l aevee ;“o“; l;\eoplo who' Tndu"a much in_rep :':’ e ey e Malaprop—Yeu don't borrowed l-?-’n-'r_nm them, and it tasted to me Jike Oo pghlesse, Hows: Figmergruat, g ::E" i That's the fourth e N ‘s othnr dn at ti could; to what .lfihylhould flo’!o -lgt lmh" happy. HOW TO KEEPF COOL. Baltimore American. | fret; be argument: It shuts oft all opportunity for et the exercise of reason, and seeks boldly to ot} t:l( ycom stal stifie legitimate inquiry. The research of Rl scholars s ignored and the reverent inquiry Don't read ai of godly men ix stigmatized as unholy. Said The Funacrck. {°"‘~ John Greenleat Whittler, poet, of reverence b4 e and humility: Dgn't work too rd; I walk with ba ag nAL R R Jolk with bare, hus ulhod feot the ground The AR 1 dare mot fix with ‘mete ‘and ‘bound kond vl o ove and power of God. Don't tan yoursel It {s pleasant to belleve that the rank and file of the membership of the churches, 1o doubt including the one above mentioned, Indorse the tender, reverent, humane view of the Quaker poet rather than the tenets of & stiff-necked theology that seeks to “fix ;Iotdh mete and bound the love and power of e of * Philadelphia Record. Pension claims on account of fancied ills resulting from Bpanish-American war service continue to cumber the files of th Pension bureau.’ In some of the regiments every man who had an ache or pain seems Peralst. to have concluded that nothing but a | broad pension piasier couid saive his hurts. One regiment from Massachusetts and an- other from Ohlo, neither of which saw a day of active service, head the lists at the bureau with 705 applfcations each. A District of Columbia regiment furnishes nearly 600 applicants; “although it did no fghtifig. The Seventh Unfted States reg- ulars, who fought at Santiago and lost thirty-three killed and ninety-nine wounded, has 542 applicants. It may be taken for granted that ih most instances medical examination will show that no valid claims for pensions exist, yet the trick of appli- cation is easily learned, and there is mo te]lling when a claim long persisted in may be transformed by some legislative hocus-pocus into a vested right. urself; Don't think you're hot; Just cool off with *1 think I'm not.” Beneath this *How to Keep Cool.” We Examine the Child’s Eyes Free Then 1f glasses are needed we make them to order in our own factory. In no other way can you be sure of having them just right. J. C.-Huteson & Co., Consulting Opticlans, 213 South 16th Sfreet, Omaha. (Note the New Location.) of goods we have received must think they have found IT PAYS TO TRADE WITH US. New Fall Furnishings Our Grand August Sale of high grade furniture, carpets, rugs, curtains, draperie. Every floor in our store is overflownig with the latest ideas of this seasons manufactures. Our buyers have for the last two months been scouring all the eastern markets |° to find something of interest to you and from the amount for the last thirty days they it. There is not a piece of furniture on our floors that has not been advanced fully 20 per cent since July 1st. Not- withstanding this fact, for the month of August we will At these prices there is make a special discount of 10 per cent. no just reason for our mnot making the month of August our busy month. Save money. Every patron of our store during this sale will not only save money, but will get the latest ideas shown this season in furniture. CUT THIS OUT Cut this out, it is worth money to you. Our ocashier will sccept this coupon for 25 per cent of the amount of your purchase in summer furniture, There is only one place in Omuha to buy Carpets. Curtains, Carpets and Rugs Our line contains all the late novelties in this sepson’s importations in hand made lace curtains, also some rare bargains in domestic goods will be on sale this week. We will also show a complete line of double-faced ve- lour curtains in all new colorings at fully 25 per cent less than regular value. We will place on sale Monday 25 9x12 Bigelow Im- perial Wilton rugs, all new $50 at any market. We will week at $37.50. patterns and colorings. This is the finest rug manufactured in this country and brings place these goods on sale this SHIVERICK FURNITURE CO. e———