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14 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR MORNING. PUBLISHED EVERY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (without Runday), One Year..$4.00 Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year......9.00 Lllustrated Bee, One o L8 Bunday Bee, One Y L0 Baturday Bee, One 10 Twentleth Century Pm‘nnr ‘One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without inday), per copy Daily Bee (without er week. . 13c | Duaily Bes (includ % Bunday Bee, per coj s | Evening Bec (without' Binday). per week 6c | Evening Bee (including Sunday), per | meek ..o 000 | in delivery ulation De- ar Complaints of irreguistities should be addressed to City Cire partment. OFFICES. gmahaThe Bee Bullding. Bouth Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-nfth and M Streets. Counctl Bluffs—i0 Pearl Street. Chicago—itw Unity Dullding. New York—2128 Park Row Huflding. Washington—o01 Fourteenth Stréet CORRESPONDENC Communications relating to nows and edl- torial_matter should be addressed: Omahe Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payatle to The Bee Publishing Company, o ent stamps accepted in_payment of mall accounts. Omaha or eastern exchan E BEE PUBLISHI STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, #s.: George B, Tzachiick, secretary of The Bes Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the aotual number of full and 'eom- plete coples of The Daily Morning, Evenin and SBunday Bee printed during the mont of August, 1008, was as follow 2 20,650 30,010 20,220 20,300 20,270 ... 90,380 26,000 49,280 2.20,330 20,280 ...3D,380 20,820 20,530 .. 20,470 ersonal chiecks. except on not accepted. ] COMPANY. 5 Total.. Less unsoid and returned coples Net total sales. . Net average sales GE Subscribed in .ny presence before me this 31st day of Aug M. B (8eal.) 904,832 nd sworn to ust. A. D. 108, UNGATI, Notary Publie. PARTIES LEAVING THE CITY, Parties leaving the city at any time may have The Bee went regularly by notifylog The Bee Business office, In person or by maill The addr: be changed s destred. to them —_— Extra session of congress talk has ap- parently dled déwn to a whisper. Perhaps a good palmn reader might help Uncle Sam decipher his Alaskan line. E—— Indian summer must not be allowed to give us the go-by this year of all time. ——— The Oblo democratic platform is an elaborate fulmination of only 4,000 words. It is to be hoped this Ohio idea will not spread. When talking of political machines, don't overlook the ‘local democratic mechanism, which is so well olled and manned that it seldom slips a cog. 1t trouble really comes, the presence of a couple of American crulsers .in Turkish waters will be right handy for the Protection of American interests. With the secretary of war represent- ing our interests before the Alaska boundary commission, that body ought to be able speedily to get at the Root of the matter. The American Bar association should have taken out a patent on its proposal for the creation of a sp&ml federal court of seven judges to pass on patent and copyright’ cases It goes without saying that President Nash would much prefer not to have s scheme to monopolize Omaha's street lighting submitted to the voters for a popular expression.’ —— It seems that the School Book trust also 'furnished some of the sinews of corruption for the Missouri boodlers. \ The School Book trust is a good trust| to watch wherever It may be operating. y Spmipge— Becretary Hitehcock can easily sat- 18fy himself that the frauds practieed | upon .the Indians with the conhivance | of the Indian agents have not been con- | fined to the Indian Territory reserva- | tions, Nor should the work of refor mation stop balf way. e It Colonel Bryan can swallow a gold- bug corporation lawyer as the demo eratie nominee for United States sena- | tor in Ohlo, he ought not to ve to | strain hard ta gulp down a goldbug statesman on the democratic presiden- tial ticket next y The compliation of loya railroad as- sessments discloses that the most valua ble mileage in the state Is in the county opposite Owmala, It wmay be worth while after all {o have a bly city the state's border, even If it Is wi Jurisdiction. on| | tlonal banks. Sentember 20, | held by the national hanks June PROPUSED CURRENCY INFLATION. Is there money enough to do the busi- ness of the country? When the business of the country is done with money there is money enough to do the business of the country. Whenever there is not money enough the functions devolving on money In effecting commercial ex- changes will be performed by substi- tutes for money or by barter. In the eighteenth century metallle money was scarce in the American col onles, and hides, furs, and tobacco were the medium of exchange because there was not money enough to do the busi- ness of the country. In the middle of the nineteenth century money was still scarce and the farmers were compelled to barter their products for merchan- dl‘o and laborers and mechanics were compelled to accept payment of the greater part of thelr wages in store or- ders, During the early ars of the civil war when the silver dimes and hailf dimes had completely disappeared from circulation beéause metalllc money— both gold and silver—had gone to a premium, postage stamps were generally used as small change until the want was supplied by the United States treas- ury in the shape of postal currency com- monly called “shin-plasters.” Before this postal currency had come Into gen- eral use retaill merchants in the princi- pal cities coined for themselves brass tokens receivable in payment for mer- | chandise very much as chips of various denominations are recelvable and re- deemable at the counter of a faro bank. Today the farmer not only markets his live stock, grain, poultry and dairy pro- ducts for cash but buys the commodities he needs for cash. The workman in the factory and in the mill is paid off in money and makes his purchases where be can buy cheapest for money. In spite of this tangible proof that there 1s money enough to do the legiti- mate business of the country, prominent bankers and financiers persistently con- tend that we are confronted by a money famine unless congress provides for a material increase In the volume of paper money, endowed with elastic properties tion to meet commercial exigencies. It is asserted In all seriousness that an abundance of crops in the west and south would create a demand for such inevitably precipitate a panie, unless the national treasury would come to the relief of the banks with an issue of emergency currency, and we are told in the same breath that a complete crop failure would also bring on a panie unless the banks are empowered to is- sue emergency currency. Fortunately the American people are not easily alarmed. They have abun- dant proof that the financial condition of the country has never been on a more solld basis than it is at this time. A few striking comparisons will suffice. In 1878 with a population of 41,677,000 the amount of money in circulation was §18.04 per capita, the debt per capita, $50.52, and the interest on the public debt per capita, $2.35. In 1803 the pop- ulation had increased to /6,349,000, the money in eireulation per capita to $24.07, the public debt per capita. dropped to $12.64 and the interest on the debt to 35 cents per capita. On August 1, 1093, the estimated population, computed by the statisticlan of the treasury, was 80,602,000, the money in circulation per caplta, $20.55, the debt per caplita, $11.84 and the Interest per capita 35 cents, In 1893 the number of national banks was 8,781 with an aggregate circulation of $183,000,000. Five years ago the total number of natlonal banks was 8,585, with a total circulation of $104,- 000,000. On August 1, 1000, the num- ber of national banks was 3,871, with an aggregate circulation of $283,000,000. On August 1, 1908, the national banks that within five years the number of natlonal banks increased by 1,450 nnd the national bank eclrculation has wore than doubled. This - enormous fngrease In, national bank cireulation is, however, not the limit of their capacity for securing cur- rency, The national banks of New York | alone’ have a right to increase thelr present circulation by over $£30,000,000, ury an equal amount in governument honds. The natlonal hanks outside of Now York could add $100,000,000 more to their elreulation by making a do- posit of an equivalent.in bonds. The amount af mpécio held by the na- 188, was $203.000,000. The amount of specie held by the banks Septomber 15, 1002, was £3(60,000,000. The amount of specle ), 1001, the last eall, was $388,616,077, or an increase of very nearly within five years. The colnage of zoid by the mints of tha United States within the past thres the coinnge of silver nmonnted to $01. 47840420, making the total coinage of £206,140,464.70. To summarize the financial situntion, | the aggrogate stock of gold in the, United | Rtates, ineluding bulllen In the national reasury, August 1, 1008, was $1.2 740,008 standard sliver dollars, §5 498 [0 Becretary Shaw has byoken retary Wilson's praserye. to the Ohio furmers plgs and priza pumpkins licates ae much familiarity cn the of secretary of the ftroasury with planters and haymows as with 1ssues und bank clearings, into Sec s discourse about ‘the prize P com Lond Sir Thomas Lipton s etranuously op posed to betting on yaoht raes and de clares that he pever put up a4 wags the outeome of any of his vontosts. In this 8ir Thomas shows bis long head Had he been a4 betting wan hia o have had to baek lis own racuts and the stikes would have stayed on this side of the Atlantic, ag well as the cup. n'u the | makine n total stock of metallie monoy £1.012.834.671, or $2 per caplta Tha stack of papsr eurrency on August .10 consisted of graenhacks, 884, "1010: treasury notes of 1800, $18.556, rnd national bank notes of $417, " 45487, or a total of $T82,588.508, or a { to'n! stoek of coln and paper money 97.697,440,174, The gold coin and bul- on held in the treasury August 1, 1003, aggroented $248400,870; standard sl dollars, $27,906,217; subsidiary +il- or, $0.432.720: treasury notes of 1800, trg.429: ereanbacks, $11485,451, or o otal of S310.110.004. leaving In actual clrevlation $2.382,018,468, It will be noted that the increase in the stock of celn and national bank T w, ' | Ameriean people. that will insure expansion or contrac- | a large volume of currency that it would | numbered 5,044, with an aggregate cir- | culation of $418,000,000. It will be noted | providing that they deposit In the treas- | $100,000,000 | THE OMAHA DAI LY BEE: SUNDAY currency within three years has been more than $400,000,000. In order to keep pace with this enormous Increase in the stock of money the volume of the business of the country, which under ordinary conditions is transacted 05 per cent by checks and drafts and 5 per cent by money, would bave had to in crease by $8,000,000,000 in round fig ures. As a matter of fact, the in crease in the volume of business has not kept pace with the increase in the vol- ume of current money. The rational eonclusion, after diges- | ting these figures, must be that there Is no necessity whatever for asset cur rency, or any other form of currency that would permaneutly inflate the stock of money. On the contrary, such inflation would be an unhealthy stim- ulant to speculation and might, If car- ried to excess, impair the ability of the government to maintain all fts money—gold, silver and paper—on a parity. 5 BELIEVES IN ARBITRATION. In a recent Interview Judge Gray ex- pressed unqualified bellef in arbitra- tion for the settlement of differences between employers and labor and sald he had noted a growing willingness on both sides to gvcept arbitration. This is a reassuring statement from one who L shown a very great interest in what is certainly one of the most important questions for the consideration of the Judge Gray does not favor compulsory arbitration, his opin- lon being that it is not arbitration at all. In this he is in accord with many employers and with all the leaders of organized labor. e entertains no doubt that were voluntary erally resorted to—and he thinks it will be In time—the results would be found 80 satisfactory that industrial peace would be assured. Perhaps the distinguished jurist. whose work as an arbitrator has been 80 successful, {8 by reason of his ex- perience somewhat too optimistic, but surely no one will be disposed to with- hold whatever encourngement can be given lis view of the tendency toward | arbitration and of the duty of both cap ftal and labor to recognize that prin | ciple and apply it in all cases where it ean be made available, and it is rare that any controversy botween employ ers and employed Is of a nature that cannot be arbitrated. What is greatly needed 8 a fairer and more tolerant spirit on both sides and whenever this shall prevall there will be no hesitation tion. Most of the disastrous labor con- fiiets have been marked by passionate and unreagonable hostility on one sl«h- or the other, or on both sides. Such conflicts between intelligent men should be hardly possible. Another thing that in very mn’n_\' cases is lost sight of is the public.interest. ' The question s one that merits all the attention which can be bestowed on it and such contributions to it us that of Judge Gray cannot fail to have a good effect. Its tendency Is to at least ‘nspire hope of better relations be- tween sapital and iabor and that Is not valueless. ——— NEW RULE FOR CONSULAR MERVICSE. President Roosevelt has adopted a new rule in relation to appointments in the consular service whieh it is not to service. It is simply a recognition of | perience and fitness thould be the basis uof appointments and that promotion | should be the reward of proved effl- | elency. The announcement is made that hereafter the president will appoint to Important consular positions men who already had served and who have had experfance and training in minor posi- tions which will render them the more capable of filling places of higher grade and greater importance, ‘While the president could not without authority from congress extend the ‘civil service regulations to consular offi- clals, he has gone as far as practicable In this directlon in making merit the | basis of appeintments. Hereafter, under the present adminlstration, men who bave shown ability and efficiency in the consular service will be cdvanced' as opportunity offers and the effect of this will be to stimulate Interest and effort {on the part of these officials. They will strive to merit advancement. Had this polley always been applied to the servy- ice, instead of its having been to a large extent the prey of politicians, { there wonld not be the complaint thatgis the service, It 18 unquestionable that the service | {has been very mueh improved within the past six years. It had become some- I what demoralized under the last demo- eratle administration, due to ing changes for politienl reasons, dent McKinley, however, was friendly | to consular reform and under his ad sweep- veqrs amounted to $206,708.080.50 nnd,yv iniatration the service was raised to | its present standard of efficiency | usefuiness. iumlmmvnh what such a serviee should he and to him belongs mueh of the eredit for the Improvement that has taken place. The new rule of the presi- dent respecting appointments should ag- sure still further improvement, but to | subsidlory sfivor, $101,670.100, | make the consular service all that m"”,d by ean be made legislation 1s required re- moving it entirely ontside of politics and applying to it the merit system. We are not among those who are dis- pesed to depreciate the consnlar serv- jer. Most of the officlals are thorenghly capable men, who perform thelr duties with zeal and fidelity, Foreign govern- ments have horne lhearty testimony to this. What is to be desired is that this stendard of efficiency and usefulness sha!l not be lowwered, but rather made higher, and this can be assured ouly through divercing the service from polities, so that it sha!l net he subjeet to belvg revelutionized by political ehange in administrations. President Roose- velt is committed to this poliey. In his A arbitration gen- | | about submitting differences to arbitra- | Le doubted will prove beneflcial to that | the sound business principle that ex-| frequently heard regarding defects in | Pres!- | and | Secrotary Hay thoroughly | first message he said: The guardian- ship and fostering of our rapldly ex- panding foreign commerce, the protec- tion of Ameriean citizens resorting to forelgn countries in lawful pursult of their affairs, and the maintenance of the dignity of the nation abroad, com- bine to make it essentlal that our con- suls should be men of character, knowl- edge and enterprise. It is true that the service is now in the main efficient, but a standard of excellence cannot be per- manently maintained until the prinel- ples set forth in the bills heretofore submitted to the congress on this sub- Ject are enacted into law.” It is to be expected that the president will urge the coming congress to provide the de- sired legislation. HOW T0 ACQUIRE TRADE. In his address before the National As- sociation of Merchants and Travelers the secretary of the treasury referred to our commerce with the countries south of us and sald that if we ever secure the trade of those countries we will first secure regular lines of com- munication with them, “and if we ever secure these lines assistance must be afforded.” Secretary Shaw went on to say that h: was not mourning the de- feat of any ship subsidy bill, but he should mourn the defeat of a bill, if any such shall ever be introduced, which if enacted “would insure regular lines of American ships flying the Amer- fean flag and carrylng Amerleamr mer- chants and commercial travelers with thelr wares and merchandise, the pro- duet of American labor, into those coun- tries to which I have referred. Snch a bill must offer special advantages to ships plylng between our ports and countries where our trade is undevel- ope It was the view of Mr. McKinley that in order to increase our commerce with the southern countries it was necessary to establish American steamship lines between our ports and the principal ports of those countries. He sald at Buffalo that “one of the needt of the times is direct commercial lines from our vast fields of production to the flelds of consumption that we have but harely touched. Nest In advantage to having the thing to sell is t¢® have the con- venience to carry it to the bhuyer. We must encournge our merchant marine, We must have more ships. They must be under the American flag, manned and owned by Amer will not only he profitable In n com mercial gense; they will be messongors of peace and amity wherever they go." The suggestion of the secretary of the treasury, however, that in order to ¢s- tablish American steamship lines to | southern ports there must be assistance { from the government, is not likely (o meet with general approval, at least in the west. It may be a fact *hat without government assistance American lines will not be established, yet no one who is famillar with the strong sentiment hgainst subsidies can doubt that any proposition to subsidize 'fnes of steam- ers between our ports and those of Bouth and Central America would fall. It Is not questionable that our com- merce with the southern countries would be very materially benefited if trade was carried on in our own thips. That a8 been repeatedly sald by mer- chants and others of the southern coun- trles. It seems safe to prediet, how | ever, that no lines will be established through government assistance. | cans. These opinion that &ithough the position of pope, like that of vresident of our re- publie, is open to the ambition of the humblest person, and offers great en- courngement to poor parents to put thelr clever toys in the church, the peo- ple prefer a yontiff of noble birth, one of good figure and to the manor born If this constitutes the resemblance be- Itw"n the two offices, it also | the contrast between them, Certainly no such preference or prejudice exista among the American people with refer- ence to thelr chief executive. On the contrary, our presidents have been more | of lowly birth and the products of self- Juxurious surroundings. 1f there Is any preference, the people prefer to see suc- | coss crown efforts that have spanned the entire distanee from the bottom of | the ladder to the top. [ holp a youth ambitious to be pope, bmt {1t would In itself be no advantage In a | quest for the presidency. Harper's Weekly undertakes by | specious reasoning to disprove the im- plication made by the Nebraska repub: {lMeans when they ondorsed President | Roosevelt for having In & masterly way |<‘nrrh-d into full and complete execution ;m« magnificent policy of William Me- | Kinley. It Tabors hard but uncon- | vineingly to show that all the main | teatures of President McKinley's ad | ministration have been Inconspicuous in that of h!s successor, but it fails to take | cognizance of constantly ehanging con- ditlons. President Roosevelt has done some things President MeKinley would | not have been expected to do, but he has done more Just ag MeKinley would have dene. The policy of Roosevelt has tieen progressive from the policy of McKinley—not revolutionary. That fs what the people will everywhere under- the phrase used in the Ne braska convention declaration. While there is grave the late lamented legislature will ever be called together again during the re- mainder of its mortal existence, there is a bare possibility that it may have to be reconvened in an extraordipary emergeucy. For that reason the seere- tary of state should notify the proper apthorities in each of the legislative districts that they are expected to fill all vacancies In the legislature from whatever causes they may have been created. doubt whether r——— Under the provisions of the anti-trust statute of Illiuols, which has recently SEPTEMBER 6, | September 12, | tieket in the drawing. | becoming one of the migratory nattons built and | | Folly of Aping Manncrs of the Euro- A blographer of Pius X expresses the | | doers can find time for. eduention than of inherited culture and | | ropean brand. Noblo birth may | Ity end snobbishnese |AGaINST wWomEN STENOGRAFHERS, | that none of the women stenographers in | service. Women who begin ag stenographers ! school teaching—women are pald much less 1903, been held valld by the supreme court of that state, every corporation s com- pelled to make affidavit that it bas not entered into a pool or trust to control prices or wages, and it Is safe to pre dict that no corporation officer will tes tify by affidavit or otherwise that he and his associates have violated the antl-trust law. In Iliinols, as in other states of this union, men in good stand Ing in thelr respective communities do not hesitate to make affidavite with a mental reservation. According to a compllation of forty- five years' weather records for Ne- braska, Jack Frost usually visits us about the 1st of October, although last year he made his advent as early as which was the record breaker with the one exception of 1863, when he surprised everybody by put- ting in an appearance on the 25th day of August. In view of the persistent backwardness of Old Sol this season, J. Frost should take notice that we are in no hurry to welcome him. Safegunrding the Gullible, Baltimore American. In closing the malls to certain swindles the Postoffice department is working sore havoe with the, rush of fools speeding to- ward every possible avenue to be parted from their money. A Popular Tieket, Washington Post Denmark now proposes to dispose of the Danish West Indies by rafe. Secretary Hay will probably Increase his popularity by see ing that ‘the United States holds a blank A Migratory People. Philadelphia Record. The fact that there are more than 2,000 Amerlean mining engineers in the gold and diamond regions of Bouth Afriea s one | among many Indicalions that t'is is ¢ Iready Diplomat Tells the Trath, Chicago Chronicle, “My country Is very much occupied at present,” says Chebik Bey, the Turkish mintster at Washington, In explanction of the dflatory proceedings fn connection with the Beyroot incident. “Very much oceu- pled” is good. Photography Withont Light. New York Tribune. A way has been found, they say, to get prints from a photographio negative with- out light. Treatment of the plate with cer- tain chemicals, it is alleged, will moke it possible to secure reproductions in the dark. The discovery promises no revolution. The old method is cheaper and probably more rapid than the new. Only under very excep- tional eircumstances, apparently, would an operator find the latter valuable. Right to Check Speculators. Detroit Freo Press. We hold trusts down to a reasonable ex- erciso of power. We preserve the advan- tages of competition in raflroads. We make and enforce laws to see that all sections are treated a'ke, or upon the equitabie baels | in the shipment of goods. - ‘We suppress bucket shops ord are vigtlant in the pur- sult of the get-rich-quick concerns. It is all done for the good of the greater number and the continued prosperity of the country at Jarge. Why cannot reckiess and un- serupulous speculators be restrained th the same way? They are a constant menace {0 the stabllity of our commercial institu- tions and national conduct of trade, and there 'is the same right to check them as any others who Impair our prosperity, and wo do not belleve the solution beyond the | ability of honest statesmanship in this country, CONCERNING COURTHSY, pean Bra 1 Saturday Evening Post. fome Americans return from abroad so deeply Impressed by the courtesies shown them In expectation of and in exchange | for tipn that they use their first intake | of native air to fall afoul of native man- ners. We should ilsten to these critics as | to al'much may be learned from criti- cism, little can be learned without it. And no doubt cur menners do need imoroving. | We have always been In & great hurry un- der the press of work, and there is still a | great deal more to do than our competent | But in polishing | our manners we must be careful to use u | | good sound brand of democratic polish, ' Araws | not the European brand so much admired by those who vearn for e deference from others which they would not venture to show themselves when all alone with the | 100king-glass. | Back of manners is instinct. Often lack of magpners in a man enables us at once | to #ee whether his instincts are right or | not. Manners hide moral and mental de- feots just as whiskers and clothes hide | physical defects—that s, manners of Eu- What we ought to deyelop | is sincerc manners—-not the bowings and | scrapings of fear and cupldity, and servil- | but the level-eyed | of one self-respecting human bes | ing to another. And, above all, we don't| want the manners that make men and women seem to have mo individuality or personal color, but te be cut all out of the | same monotonous, mindless pattern. courtesy “Belated Expression of an Old Prefn- | " hy a Western Roa i New York World, Northwestern rallway's decision | Tho its service will be allowed to qualify for promotion or be eligible for its pension list has naturally created a stir among th women workers In general and women | stenographers In particular. The company explains its aetion on thy ground that “a woman stenographer can never be anything elve.” That certainly is not true in other lines | of business, hcwever it may be in raitroad | in law and commercial houses and in the service of city, state and nation are fying higher positions, with broader and more responsible duties, in large numbers. They become private secretaries, clerks in charge of correspondence, court stenog. raphers and lbrartans, Not a few of them conduct independent businesses, with staffs of stenographers and typewriters whom they furnish to do the work on call, and make net incomes of $4,000 to $1,000 & year. It ls @ fact of current interest that while in some other calling—notably that of than men for the same service, the woman stenographer is paid as well and sometimcs Detter than & man stenographer. If she i expert and has general aptitude for busi- ness apart from her stenography, she often recelves from $1.200 to $2600 & year; as & court reporter one of them at least in this city 1s known to be pald the last named sum. The Northwestern raflway's curlous ruling 1s a belated expression of the old prejudice against the industrial equality of woman, which is Bevertheless simost ex- tnet. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. — Milwaukee Sentinel: A few sectarian bigots are growling at President Roosovelt ! the monkeys. Our employes all threaten & | atrike if wo nek them to work when there s a alreus In town.” A Bloomington, Tli., fined $16 woman w for sending condolences on the death of | for jabbing her hatpin into the hide of Leo XI11. Religion the souls of some l’\zlr. Somerville Journal & young minister it years before she gets why more ecditors don't write to her erend husband, asking for permission publish his sermons. Chicago Inter Ocean In the home and the church McFaul, “4s not sufficient i generally severa through rev say he Bishop sufficient, schools & would be necessary American Institutions over from tom, and that will never be done. country church and state have been perm anently separated, Boston Transcript: to the What the Turkish minister says about missionaries is very much to the point. Missionaries In Turkey are bound to treat the Turkish government and Turkish national sensibility respect- tully. writes or publicly says that Turkey should be wiped oft the face of the earth has y no claim morally on the good offices of our government if the sultan simply tells him that his room is better than his com- pany. We have noticed with pain that there are quite a number of reverend gen- tlemen who, instend of preaching peace, frequently vent the opinfon that Turkey or some other nation, o called heathen, ought to be “‘pounded Kansas City Star: Rev. Father Merscher, a Catholic pricst at Taylorville, 111, issued an ultimatum against barveheaded women In the sanctuary. He even refused a few days ugo to marry a couple In his church because the bride had no covering on her head. It fs inferred that Merscher has taken this radical stand he- cause It has become the custom for women to remove their hats In theaters. Clergy- men cannnt be too serupulous in pr ing a d!stinct iine of demarkation between the church and the world, devil. Tather Merscher also wearing of decollette gowns but, of course, this is never where but in Taylorville, Tndianapolls Journal: The resolutions of the Evangelical Lutheran y.inisters criticts- Ing the president and sec:etary of state for sending a message of eccndolence on the death of Pope Leo show the narrowest possible view of the case. The Idea that such a message sent to the pupal secretary of state wae a recognition of the temporal power of the pope and a violation of the spirit of the constitution of the United States will strike sonsible iaymen :s very absurd. To make their action more :idicu- lous and impertinent the ainisters’ rociation sent a copy of the tesolution to the president. Tt will probably cvoke a reply that will Ahow the ministers rhat he president office better than they do. PERSONAL AND OTHERWI Designer Fife is at liberty to Wringe off on yacht construction. A Chleago girl vent fishing and caught a pair of trouscrs with §5,13 In the pockets. Some girls are horn lucky. Much as his methods are deprecable, one cannot help admiring the taste of the fel- Jow who wanted to marry Miss Allicé Roose- velt. A It Mr. Carnegle would epgage yachting business with a little of h coteristic ardor he ¢ould soon ¢:sposscss Fimself of a few of his millions. A Chicago dustice hearing the philosophlc name of Dooley fix¢s the price of stolen Kkisses at 325 each. The fes syrtem ‘Is an artistic bopster of court values, Just to show what they can do when the crowds come next summer, two 8t. Loufs mhibits the n done any- in policamen pulled their artillery and blagzed | away at a fugitive and succeeded in shoot- ing themselves. Phiny Soper is the name of the United States attorney.in Indian Territory whose doings are being Investigated. Naturally the Investigators are being regaled with soporifio explanations. The fateful thirteen deserves reinstate- ment in the affections of mankind. It was ths thirteenth husband who checked the mad career of an Indlana woman who hankered for too much of a good thing. There {s -a touch of nature that makes | many kin in this public announcement in |an Oregon town: ‘‘Medford blacksmith shops will all be closed on circus day. Do not expect to get blacksmithing done on | that @ay—the smithies have a contract to carry the elephants to water and to amuse Dewey & Ston seem to pucker up | horrid When a girl marries | wondering ““Teaching religion | only answer to this is that it will have to be To teach religion In our public make | bot- | In this A misslonury llving in Turkey who has | Father | the flesh and tha | ehureh, | understands the propricties of his | man, Justioe s surely lopside when It penalizes u woman for exerclsing the inalienable right of prodding backward 1| men The United Btates Hay Fever assoolation, at ite last conventinn, Jamented the paucity » of numbers seeking admission, aithough the Inducement of fellow fooling is held out {to the amic Meanwhile the federated | sneezers continue to sneeze. ted DOMESTIC PLEASA 20 you know anything about dirtngs plied, sadly. I thoukht I did led 1f, hanged if the girl didn't Chicigo FPost (Kubelfk, the violinist, will play no more solos.’ hy, has h o-—-married been Injured ™ tanapolis Journal, The chronic hachelor uiet man, who had taken no part in the scussion. “\WVould ' you, &ir," he said, arry the best woman in the world?" 10ia." 'was the reply. " —Judge. ally tuined to the she n my one thing v hands “My wife saye If thers’ hates it's to sce me with too. She prafers to put her own ~Detroit Free Irese, “Yes, Pluggine has riken in the world, I know, Hut it's all due to hix wife. She spurs him to action “Well. any man with a pretola of snirlt will get up when 11y wif : uses :purs < n him, won't he! '«Chicago ‘1ibune. “Iateful thing!' thelr spat. T married you.” “Perhaps 80, replied the | any rate. you' were no chicl | phin Press, she oried in the midst of was a silly goose when reat brute, “at on."—Philadel- “Yer," snld the young nobleman to, be married (o Miss Boodlington “That demon cs my theory,” sald the embittered author. "I have alwoys said that a catchy titie would sell almost any- | thing."-~Washington Star “I am Surprised Fathor — daughter, Why, sho js Unubashed Sultor—Yes. That's what she | says her mother was when she married you."—Somerville Journal What, marry a mere ehild my Ehe o8t her head when he proposed; Dut he, a trifle Lolder, Made search for it distractedly, And found it on his shoulder. Philadelphia Record. THE BDOYDA W. D. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune, The boydayu-the boydays—they were the bost of Bli! Throygh all ‘the hushes of the years the Loydaye ever call [ Out of (he dartkness of the night resplend- ently they shine, And what a wreath of memories for one and all they twine! No matter what of buser stuff the later years may hold We 1y look up and hatk and see the boy- doys all were gold The Fovd-vs—the boydays—when come tho thrends of gea You may live In “omerrow, but you dream of Yesterdny; nay look In ‘the face vou see In ore that has (he wemblance of the by von veed to he, s nE. vou miy bit of song wanders from the Foydays cadence sweet nnd &trong. You rirror, but the only ! Ana stumble on a brokea That n a | The 1ovanys—a fade: The glamonr of the grasses where the sum- 1 mer sunshine nlaye The ronrkle of the ripple in some jolly little stream Whore =ong wa dvine gleam: The nodding of tha roses, and the whiteness of the snoy- They hend nevass the picture of the long ard lorg ago. pleture with not & hue to bullt of jewels of a never- The hovdave—the toydays—we never ices them all: The hoat of al) the memories, they coma at Somehow fonev's onl. Ahev ‘nte riade perfect by the alehemy of vears, Which ek Alive the smiies they Hold and nevor finds the tears: The heart ix hut A tressure chest our precions things to hold, And shicfast of tha goodly store 18 all the boydays' gold, OMAHA. Boclal atmosphere home-like and happy. General and college preparatory coursos, Exceptional advantages in music, art and Itarary interpretation. Prepares for any college opoen to women. Vassar, Wellesley, Mt Molyoke, Wostern Reserve University, University of Nebraska and University of Chicago, admit puplls without examination on the certificates of the principal and faculty. Thoroughness insisted upon as os- sontlal to character building. = Bhysioal tralning under a pr frsmonal director, Well equpped eymnasium, ample provi- sion for out door sports, ineluding private lhlllllfirannfls Bend for fllustrated cuta~ logue. 1ss Macrae, Principal. = 8 Furniture Co, i15-1117 FARNAM STREET. S eptember Furniture Sale The e normous amount of business done the first week of our Annual Sep- tember Bale has made it possible to of- fer ever week. values ¢ spection Mahogany Bedroom Sult Mahogany Rocker., Mahogany Rocker Mahogany Dresser Mahogany Bookcase..... Oak Combination Bookcase. Oak Combination Bookcase 53 Oak Princess Dresser Maple Dresser. Oak Dresser.... | 3-plece Mahogany Parior Sul Mahogany Parlor Chalr. Gold Divan . 346 Oak Davenport 312,60 Oak Parlor Chair. # Oak Rocker : $15 Wea. Oak Hall Seat .50 Qak China Case 0 Osk China Case. 33 Oak China Case.. g o Buffet 50 Oak Buffet.. ... F5 Box-seat. Chairs, oak Box-geat Chairs, oak Oak Buffet.... ny Dining Fabis Dining Tal! Tab'e Jehoga 60 Mahogany Osk Dining Brass Be Bed Bed——Gold Mahogany Dressing Table Oak Hall Tree Oak Hall Tree 1. e 8E g THE SBAME WAY ALL THROUGH :aurflx;ust.-gg:gm;u:g;;s;g:n OVER ONE THOUSAND OTHER PIBCES OF FURNITURE MARKED 1 better values the second It is impossible to judge the ffered without a personal in- ) of the following— SE38TE8s2Seesass SERESZ23883E3E i DON'T MISS THIS SALE, | THE STORE _ DEWEY & STONE FURNITURE 00, 115-117 FARNAM STREET.

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