Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 4, 1910, Page 12

1 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWA’ VICTOR ROSEWATE R, EDITOR. Botered at Omaha postoffice as second- class matter, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (Including Sunday) per week..15c aily Bee (without Sunday), per week....100 ally Hes (Without sunday), one year...3.0 Paily bee and Sunday, one year 5.0 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week..6c Jyening Bee (with Sunday), per week... it unday ksee, one year.. ! Saturday Hee, one year N Addreas all complaints of Iriegularities in livery to City Circulation Department. OFPICE Omaha—The Bee Buildir South Omaha—~wenty-fourth and eIl Bluffs—15 scott Street. 618 Little Bullding. Marquette Building ms 1101-1102 No. t ington—i% Fourteenth Street, N. W. . CORRESPONDENCE. * Communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCE v Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of | mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss George B. Tzschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and smplete coples of The Daily, Moruine vening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, 1910, was as followa: N. M West Total Returned ¢oj |t Net total Dally averag . GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 3lst day of May, 1910. M. P..WALKER, Notary Public. ] Subscribers leaving the city tem- vorarily ld have The Bee wailed to them. Addresses will be changed as often as requested. Just the same, the ice man has noth- ing on us these days. This thing of crossing ;hs English channel in an airship is getting to be routine, Johnny Bull seems to feel that in exchange for the right hand of fellow- ship he got back the mailed fist. ——— It seems that the anti-saloonists, no more than the liquor men, can dwell long together in peace and harmony. 1f the portfolio of gecretary of base ball is ever created during the time of President Taft, Ty Cobb is sure of the place. Girls, bere is a8 Newark man who admits he wants to get married, but dreads to propose. There {s your chance. Those “men higher up” in the Sugar trust fraud are almost as elu- sive the turkey around Thanks- glving time, The original “Little Eva" has again passed away, showing that she does not propose to be outdone in death by King Menelik. The anti-oral betting bill passed the New York legislature a few days after John. W. Gates decided a $3,000 deal by the flip of a coin. — In {ts tax return the Omaha Street session of 350 cars. But the strap- hangers are from Missouri. City Attorney Burnam had his name printed on the brief in the water works case, but in justice to him it should be #ald that be got no further in it. $ ——— Bringing that railroad bill to final passage s like leading a balky horse to water, Sometimes scares it off at the very last minute every time, Land grafters are sald to be indus- triously operating in Seminole county, Oklahoma! Ob, in Oklahoma? Never! It you do not believe it, ask Haskell. Philadelphia gold brick men gharged with swindling wealthy Eng- Mishmen are to be prosecuted. What will they do with the wealthy English- men? Mr. Belmont’s horse turned a somer- sault, which must have reminded the New Yorker of some politicians he had met in the bygone days of democratic ‘warfare. Sclentists tell us that the earth is 72,000,000 years old. But we are precluded from observing its anniver- sary, for they have not given us the exact date of its birth, | panding policies of conservation and Abolish Cabinet Office? The president, it is understood, will | be asked during he com'ng summer to consider the propositic “f recom- mending to congress the «uolition of the Department of the Interior “mqd the substitution of a Department of Public Works, leaving the affairs of the interior to a bureau created for the purpose. Those said to favor the change declare that it offers means of economy and facility in business and that they believe the president will so view it after he has taken time to study the subject, though he has given no suggestion as yet of his views. plates merging in the new department all such enterprises as the Panama canal, public lands, forestry, interior, public health and irrigation, tending toward a more centralized administra- tion of these affairs. 1t is insisted that it is in no way connected with the present Ballinger-Pinchot controversy and would, if brought about, require such time for readjustment of details incident to the change as not to dis- turb the incumbency of the secretary of the interior during the present ad- ministration. But never in the history of the coun- try has any ecabinet office been -abol- ished or the number of cabinet mem bers lessened. While the Interior de- partment has outgrown its usefulness in certain directions, yet with the ex- development, the work now included | under this department becomes stead- ily heavier and more varied. Nor is it apparent now that such a change would do away with the system of subordinate bureaus, one of the ob- jects sought under the plans. It is, indeed, a question if it would not mul- tiply the number of these bureaus in- stead of reduce them, because the same work that is being done today would have to be continued and new work would be constantly arising. If it were simply to be a rearrangement of jurisdiction and redistribution of work, it would not make much differ- ence whether the name is changed or not. Back from Canada. Census enumerators have made the discovery that many American farm- ers who sold out and went to Canada are coming back to the United States and are resuming business in the west where they left off when the Canadian boomer captured them. After actual trial they found conditions less allur- ing in the Dominion than they had ex- pected and decided that they could not, for many years to come, if ever, offer real improvement over things as they exist today south of the line. This is not surprising and, as the enumerators indicate, the return of the Americans who went north will continue. The fact is that, without alspnrlgln‘ the Canada soil, its re- sources and opportunities, there never was a time nor a country that offered greater inducement for working the land than the present in the United States. Land of every description is available here, semi-arid, requiring |ginning to end as engineered by the As outlined the proposition contem- | Water THE BEE: i under their tutelage Such should be inculcated along with the |regular instruction and make it un- necessary for those outside the colleges to dwell upon the importance of these lessons. The notion that education and culture are not demanded in the home in the innermost ecircles of do- mbstic life, is based upon a false and unheaithy view of the most solemn obligations of soctety. ideas The Fatal Misstep. | While the whole proceeding trom be- | board to acquire the water works was a succession of mis- steps, it must be plain to every one now that the final and fatal misstep | was the voting of the $6,500,000 last year to provide the money to pay the| full price of $6,263,205.49, as fixed by the appraisers. The Bee at that time pointed out| that the voting of these bonds was| altogether premature, that such an ex- pression at the polls would be equiva-| lent to an affirmance by the city that| the appraisement was fair and just,| and notice that we were ready to take over the water plant at that figure. We called attention to the fact that the| case involving the specific performance of the contract was pending in the United States supreme court, and that the voting of the bonds would in some way come within the purview of the court and exert an influence there. | The brief submitted by the water company lawyers, on which the su-| preme court decision must have been | won, includes among other things the following: Point XII. Through action taken by the Water board of the cily of Omaha since the record in this case was made up, and by the voters of the city in respect to the acquisition of the water works in question, the pending proceedings for a review in | the judgment below has ceased to have any legitimate merit or excuse Here follows the text of the order of the Water board for the submission of the bond proposition in the sum of $6,500,000, the appeal to the people of Omaha to vote these bonds over the names of the members of the Water board, and a certificate showing the re- sult of the canvass of the vote, and continues: 1t appears that more than two-thirds of the voters: in the city interested in the question were not only in favor of the purchase of the entire system, but were willing to vote bonds enough for the price fixed by the appraisement. It transpires, therefore, that not only was the voting of the water bonds last year premature, but It was decidedly prejudicial to the city's case, if it had any. No attempt has yet been made to sell the bonds, and there would be ample time to vote bonds after the court had definitely decided just how much we were to pay for the works. It is even possible, and moyge than pos- sible, that we may yet have to vote another issue of bonds before the transaction involved in the transfer of the property can be completed, and certain that we will'have to vote more bonds before the plant can be strength- ened with a new main from the Flor-| irrigation and the deep, black soil that is neither susceptible to nor dependent on artificial means of watering -lnd. more than that, the system of irriga- tion, backed by the government, is be- ing pushed with ample capital and en- ergy so as to place the reclaimed area within easy reach of men in most mod- est circumstances. The call of the wild is ever enticing, but after the novelty of the fronmtier wears off and the chill of the first Canadian winter has thoroughly soaked in, it s natural for men to turn their faces homeward and count the cost of blazing new trails in a new country as compared with the less rig- orous life required in the states, with the possibilities of the future in both cases reckoned in the bargain. Education and the Home. President Taft ‘gave the young women of Bryn Mawr some gound ad- vice in his definition of higher educa- tion for women, laying stress upon the importance of the home as woman's great sphere of usefulness and forcibly dissenting with the view that college training unfits young women for the sacred duties of wife anda mother. This is not new counsel, but it is wholesome and wise and it could be heeded by the women in charge of these seminaries with great profit to the present and future' generations. Too many girls in college and private schools have taken up with a prevail- ing heresy that the home is not their first and most important fleld of activ- ity and too many leaders of thought in this country have helped to spread this dangerous fallacy. The president pointed out the dis- tinction between the influence of an academic education and the tastes that lead one to it, a distinction which those prone to criticise the conduct and achievements of college graduates do not always make. He declared that not the education upfita a man or woman for home or business, but the tastes of the individual. Certainly On the surface it looks as If Walter 1. Bmith, in the Ninth lowa district just across the river. were running against two United States senators and ‘ane candidate for congress, ‘With reference to r serial joint debate we move that the deputy state labor commissioner and the secretary of state be given leave to print future instaliments at their own expense. It is quite significant that soon after the colonel's departure the kalser has an operation performed on his right bhand—the one he shakes with. More than one European monarch has felt the power of that good right. \ “the mental discipline, power of rea- soning, cultivation and comparison of idea which & college education brings could not possibly, in them- selves, so unfit men and women and it is only ignorance of the subject that contends that they do. A subtle suspicion will inevitably obtrude itself on the mind of the ob- serving person who reads the presi- ence pumping station and supplied with the needed extensions. The position of The Bee with reference to the bonds has surely been vindicated. Our old friend, Edgar Howard, writes a pretty good republican edi- torial in spite of his democratic pre- tentions. He says that high prices of farm products make prosperity, and no one has a right to complain about them. The only thing he forgot to add was that these prosperous times come only when republicans are in con- trol of the government at Washington. How many would have voted for the city to buy the water works when the proposition for immediate pur- chase was first submitted if they had been advised that the purchase price would be $6,263,295.497 Don’t all speak at once. The announcement of Governor Folk's plan to stand for the democratic nomination for president in 1912 calls for another open letter in the Com- moner, giving notice to this new aspi- rant what he must do or “prepare to stand aside.” The only wonder is that Reformer Elmer Thomas has not started to take up another church collection to help his old friend and pal, Convict Erd- man, out of the uncomfortable position in which he finds himseif. “I dissent from the view that an academic education unfits a man or woman for business,” sald President Taft at Bryn Mawr. And yet people will insiuate that he and “Uncle Joe" are of one mind. The new collector of {nternal rev- enue at New York is a dentist. Evi- dently the government has found that collecting taxes is like pulling eye teeth and belleves in summoning ex- perts to do it A physician from Des Moines has been caught robbing apartment houses in Memphis. No necessary reflection on the commission form of munieipal government, although both these cities have it. The fact that Jobn L. fears Jeft is not training properly ought to alarm no one. John L., we recall, never dent's address that he apprehended the need for just such a talk at this par- ticular time. It is high time that woman's colleges and coeducational institutions were addressing them- selves with more earnestness to the serious duty of exaiting the home and its Influence on the nation trained at all, which' explains why James J. Corbett became champion so soon. —_— The report of Mr. Bryan's lecture in London says that he prefaced his re. marks with the declaration that “‘as an outsider he did not regard himself | bear {should be admitted | The OMAHA. SATURDAY, JUNE = Mr. Bryan's modesty is overpowering ‘when he is in London, but it does not stop him from declaiming politics in Nebraska after a three months’ ab- sence in South America, and giving orders {o Governor’ Shallenberger the very moment of returning. Jndt for Excrcive. St Louls Globe Democrat Mr. Bryan's open letter to Governor Harmon shows that the Nebraskan may be tired of the referondum, byt i just beglnning to take up the initiative. here Are Oth 3 Washingtan Herald Mr. Bryan seems not entirely from the hallucinaglon that the Bryan rainbow is the only one equipped with a real bag of gold—or is it silver? at the end RBucking Against n Big Pull. Houston Post. Diespite the effort of the Commoner vead Governor Harmon out of the probably’ a halt million Ohlo me by a good long grip on hold him in. to party, democrats the cables Waste in Rallrond Wali Street Journal. It costs our raflroadg about $1000,000 a day for the single item o fuel, and a quar- ter of that is sald to be wasted. Increased economy in this respect might be made to a good part of the burden which is to be shifted to increased rates. ration. Ho. Washington Herald. Governor Marshal's statement that Mr. Roosevelt deliberately forced the nominu- tlon of Mr. Taft, in order to pave the way for a third term for Roosevelt, is a trifle baffling, in view of the undisputed fact that Mr. Roosevelt might have had the third term then and there had he xo elected. Defining “Free White Persons.” New -ork Tribune. Fthnology was an uncultivated #cience when congress declared more than 100 vears ago that only “free white persons” to naturalization. courts now wrestling with that phrase have the hard task of harmoniz- ing what the lawmakers a century ago really meant with what they probably would have meant if they had had the benefit of later ethnological researches. Savings Bank Philanthropy. Brooklyn Eagle. State Superintendent of Banks Cheney refers to savings banks as instifutions organized to care for the money of the “frugal poor.” These frugal poor do not realize how well the savings bank philan- thropists look after their money until they try to borrow some of it on & mort- gage and have to pay for searches and the examination of the title, to say noth- ing of the appraisal and the survey with incidentals: ‘iaus we see that tne frugal poor are really only that branch of the human iamily that does business with the recelying teller. Sweet neh of Thieves. Indianapolis News. No one ever supposed that the hired hands of the sugar trust were stealing from the government for the benefit of the trust just for the fun of the thing and unbeknown 1o the beneficlaries of thelr thefts. Hired hands do not do that sort of thing, least of all with skilltul devices to affect scales and with an elaborate sys- tem of warning lights. The thieyes were hired to do what they did. The men higher up were directing and paying for the rob- bery of the government. Lovely business for eminent millionaire monopolists to be engaged in! A sweet coterle for congress to allow to prey on the people! POLITICAL DRIFT. Tllinois democrats seem to be the only persons who kneaded the senatorial dough. Hon. Sydney Emanuel, Mudd, congress- man from Maryland, has declined & renomi- nation in his district, having decided to retire from public life. For the tirst time since Oklahoma became a state, the full-blood Cherokee Indians have decided to take part in politics, and will vote at the August primaries and the November election, The Chicago Tribune offers a reward of $,000 for legal proof of the identity of all members of the “‘syndicate” which put up the money which was used, according to four confessions, in bringing about the election of Senator Lorimer. . No one has yet volunteered a satisfactory reason for the difference in the published schedule of vote prices in the Illinois legis- lature. Senators were rated at $2,500 and representatives at $1,000 or less. Both were | on an equality at the ‘“fackpot,” which netted $700 each. Pifty-two years continuously in office, John Laws of Orange county, N. C. the age of , again is in the field candidate for register of deeds. IHe is de- clared to be the oldest officeholder in the United States, and has weathered many po- litical upheavals. 1t is not doubted that he will come out victorious {n his latest battle at the polls. There 1s likely to be a picturesque ele- ment in the contest for United States Sen- ator in Missourl. The blacksmith candi- date; John F. Breckenridge, has secured the requisite number of names on his peti- tion and will make the race on the soclal ist and labor ticket. He Is an interesting tigure, having followed for years the Wild West show here and abroad as a eteer roper. Though he has never received a hero medal, he has earned one, having saved the lives of seven persons in a hotel fire in Brussels, and two in a fire at Jack- sonville, Fla. Our Birthday Book | June 4. 1010 B. Fay Mills, the evangelist, Rev, was born June 4, 184 at Rahway, N. J. He held meetings in Omaba last winter, and carried on a controversy with the regular denomination preachers in Lincoln only a few weeks ago. David Cole, president and treasurer of the David Cole Cremmery company, 1s celebrating his §3d birthday today. He was born in Rlair's Cove, County Cork, Treland, and came to this country in 1574, beginning business in Omaha six years later as a commission merchant, belng engaged In varfous branches of the business down to the present. He served four years as a member of the Board of Education, and is prominent in all the local business organizations. Davia M. Fitch, attorney-at-law officing in The Bee bullding, was born June 4, 1582, Brunswick, Mo. He is a graduate of the Omaha Law school, and held u posi- tion for five years in the county judge's office. Fred W Rothery, office- manager for the Miiler Hotel compeny, is 3l years old toley. He was born in Quiney, Iil, mov- ing hers with his father's family when 7 years old. He worked his way up from telegraph messenger boy with ‘the Postal to have recovered?’ | government liable for heavy damages. minds of the young women who come |to discuss politics with intelligence.” | In Other Lands Side Lights on What is Trans. piring Among the Near a: Far Nations of the Rart) The exhibition of the “Big Stiek” I pald to celebrated peace- felt in certain | It as a Jjustly maker, justified the fears British clreles | since Mr. Roosevelt's specches at Khartum and Calro. Apart from the questionable propriety of a stran- ger and A guest butting Into the internal politics of a nation, there are good fea- sone why Great Britaln does not welcome suggestions on governing Egyptlans with 4 club. In the first place, Great Britain's hand in Egypt Is very much weakened by the privilege of extra-territoriality en- joyed by citizens of other countries. Should A “blg stick” club the native agitators into sllence, ‘it would be casy to find a radical German, or a Frenchman, or an Itallan, to keep up the revolutionary agi- tatien for a price. These forelgners could not bs suppressed offhand. They could not e arrested, nor thelr houses searched without the "consent of ihelr respective consuls. Proceeding agalnst a foreign sub- Ject without official consent . renders the For every Bgyptlan revolutionist put out of commission southern Europe could furnish a score. Swinging a “big stick” on the natives would serve good end while the government's hands are tled in dealing with forefgn revolutionaries, Conditions in Indla furnish equally cogent objections o the Roosevelt method. One of the chief rellances for peace In India rests on the religlous divisions of the people, Were the Mohammedans and Hindoos unfted for political ends, British rule would soon see its finish. The religlous leaders of both divsions are dlligently coddled—the Mo- hammedans through the priesthood of Tur- key and the Hindoose through provincial potentates. An open rupture with the Kevntfans, imperiling even nominal econ- trol of the anclent land, would stir the whole Mohammedan world and intensify a very critical situation in India. In these circumstances swinging a ‘“blg stck” would be as dscreet as dropping a lighted match In a powder house. o In cleaning and fumigating the Yildiz Kiosk, following the kidnaping of Abdul Hamid from Constantinople, the secret archives of the exiled sultan were brought to light. In these papers are compressed the secret gervice operations of the empire ‘|during Abdul's sultanate, together with de- talled reports of the most elaborate spy system in Burope. The dethrened sultan was extremely suspicious of his official servitors, playing each faction or group against the other, and obtaining from fa- vored members of each reports on what the others were doing or likely to do, liberally sprinkled with suspiclons and aspersions, esplonage fills 360 large ehests, and con- tains enough political dynamite to blow up several divislons of the Young Turk's party. That the drchives are considered dapgerous is indicated by the opposition ot the grand vizier to Parllamentary demands for their publication. ,A vote on the ques tion was postponed on the grand vizle personal appeal. In the hands of the gov- ernment the reports can be used, when oc- casion arlses, to destroy opposition, or blast individual reputations by insinuation. Members of Parllament already assailed by innuendo insist on one of two courses— either immediate < publication or destruc- tlon. The founder of ‘the famous collection, while bewalling his fate &t Salopika, would be cheered mightily it he but knew that the relics of “hip edreer are giving his enemies many a bad ‘heur. “ - A adistinguished Norwsgian, Loveland, formerly head of the milmistry, has just published a striking story: of those two sreat men, Ibsen and‘Bjornson, which he vouches for as having come direct ta him from Bjornson's lips, on his seven- tieth birthday. Bjornson had Jjust re- turned from & visit to Ibsen, who was then unable to read, and gradually dying. Even his mind showed some loss of its great power. Appalled at the sight of the great wreck, Bjornson walked about the room unable to gonceal his feelings. “This Is terrible, horrible, to have to lie in this condition,” he muttered. Then, turning to Tbsen, with the appalling directness of one of Ibsen's own characters, Bjornson asked him if it were not unendurable to lle in that heipless condition. “But’—so Bjorn- son told the story—'"Ibsen only bit his lips hard and sald, ‘No one shall hear me com- plain—no ~ome’” Curlously and sadly enough, Bjornson himself dled by inches, lingering in precisely the same pitiful eon- dition which had so aroused his dread and sympathy in Ibsen's case. e In a thoughtlese, indiscreet way Ameri- cans have frequently applauded the ohi- nese custom of chopping off the heads of bankers who happen to lose the funds of depositors. Not because Americans favor cruel sport, or lacked a sympathetic tear for suddenly bereft relatives. Their emo- tions have been stirred by the efticacy of a treatment that forblds an encore. Another custom much less impressive developed during the negotiations for the Chinese raflroad loan of $30,000,000. A standpat na- tive objected to foreigners participating in the lgan, and sent his protest written with the blood of his severed finger to the im- perlal minister of communications. It was the standpat way of emphasizing his fecl- ings. . American devetees of Prince Nieotine who contemplate touring France this sum- mer should post themselves on the new customs regulations governing tobacco car- rled by travelcrs. Women and children are not allowed to bring Into France any tobacco without paying duty. The amount allowed men, duty free, is now limited to ten clgars, twenty cigarets and about one and one-third ounces of tobacco. More than this amount subjects the traveler to heavy penalty. The goveinment has a monopoly of the sale of the weed and discourages competition by outsiders. Besides it has a staggering debit of §7,000,000,000 and a copl- ous annual deficit. SANCTIMONIOUS GRAFTERS. A Large Specimen in the Limelig in 1ilinel Chicago News When he is the product of a city environ ment, the ordinary American political grafter is not much glven to hypoerisy. He aims to be considered a sort of Robin Hood, who preys upor the powerful and divides his booty with the poor or spends it in conviviality. with boon companions. State Senator D. W. Holstlaw of Marion county, who has confessed that he was paid & bribe of $2,600 to vote for Lorimer for senator, 18 of & different type, and one more difficult to understand. He s what may be called a sanctimonious graf Measured by the standards of the com- munity in which he lives, Holstlaw Is a man of wealth. When called to Springfield to testity before the grand jury he was just returning from a church convention in Baltimore. The principal bills introduced fn the legislature by him wers one pro- viding for the visitation of orphans in Guild hall, London, and the voeal tribute | The product of this system of] that this bank bas months, / Time Certificates of Deposit $2.034,278.61 8% % Interest pald on certificates running for twelve The report made to the comptroller under date of March 20, 1910, shows irst National Bankof Omaha He took the aggressive in seeking to in® duce furniture houses to corrupt him and others in exchange for a djshonest contract Wwith the state. It was for lylng to the grand jury about some of the facts in con- | nection with these proceedings. that he was | indicted for perjury. Fearful of a success. ful prosecution and a penitentiary sentence on this account he turned state's evidence. Although posing in politics as an opponent of the liquor traffic, he did not hesitate, ac cording to his own story, to go for his bribe money to a ealoon in Chicago owned by an- other state senator, John Broderick The common rough-necked boodier one can at least understand, bu' it Is hard to fathom the workings of the mind of the sanctimonious grafter. It is when men of this weak and contemptible type become a part of the system of graft that the regime of corruption is especially liable to over- throw. CHANGE ON THE RANGE. Clarence M. Smith in New York Times. Sure one big change has hit this range Since the summer of sixty-nine, When 1 blew West in hopeful quest Of & lalupailoosa mine; Which 1 régret, the same as yet Has eluded my efforts fine I weren't no hand at washing sand, Nor at ewinging a Jack; The mining game was muoch too tame For a lad Hke your Uncle Mac— 1 pulled my freight at & rapid gait And burned up the homeward track. But 1 digress, which I confess 1s a fajling 1 sometimes own, Uil start again for to explain Ot how modern the range has grown, Since 1 punched steers for Wild Bill Spéers .And his .buddy, Old Ute Malone. We thought It right to pick a fight, And your enemy punctuate With slugs of lead till he fell dead, But that custom is out of date For now they go a leetle slow— It's the fashion to @rbitrate. In them old days we oouldn't ralse On a section of sagebrush land No crop but cows, which same would browse On the cactus which thrived on sand; The grub we had, I'll simply add, Was the kind that's mostly canned. Now see the crops, from spuds to -hops, That are raised in this arid state; There ain’t no rain, but pipe the grain, Since we learned to lrrigate; The record made with ditch and spade Is a marvel to contemplate. In_frontier days we sang the praise Of the skate with the ten-mile gait; But he's passay—the motér shay Sent the broneho to hauling freight. And now I hear, about next year, All the ranchers, will aviate. We hesltate to punctuate With a six-gun_ the foe we hate; We arbitrate and irrigate— Soon we punchers will aviate, Sure one big change has hit this range, Since 1 served my novitate. LINES T0 A LAUGH. “‘What was the first speech of the thrown jockey when he was pulled from under his| mount?" @ looked up and took in the situation. he said, feebly, ‘This is a horse on —Baltimore American, have you got against that | He has done some very good Brown—What man Smith? things, Jones—Yes, but I happened to be one of them,~Life. “Sorry to be late, but my alarm didn't work this mornin, “What sort of a “'I depend on berrie: —Phils larm is 162 huckster who yells ‘straw- s!" and he'd put on & low-yeiced sub." | adelphia Ledger. “You really should interest yourself in| culture,” said the young lady from town. “A do,"” replied Farmer Corntossel; oy culture, bee culture and agricultire.’ Washington Star. “Bread,” said the lecturer, “is the corner- stone of health. “By Jove, Polly,” said Jinks, on the way | home, ' “that fellow must have heard of | your biscults.”—Harper's Weekly. “Mr. Grin sald the rector to the vestryman, “we had better take up the col. lection before the sermon this morning.” “Indeed ?" “'Yes, I am, golng to pr & tor Charitable Person—I thought you were 1 h on the subject —8tray of econom: nd. Beggar—Well, Cap, times is g0 hard just now and competition’ is so keen that even 1 you should advertise to sell silver dollars for 90 cents most people would think they were and wouldn't buy them. But if you adver- tised to sell new, clean, germless pa- per dollars for & dollar and 10 cents and put up a right good argument you would get some buyers. In other words, when you put your sales argument on a cut in price people look upon your offer with suspicion; they look for the sand in the sugar; the worm in the apples; the shoddy in the wool. Offer what 1s really good, that you yourself know is good—at a falr price and tell why the goods are right, and you will find that people will come to your store to buy not only what you advertise, but what is more important, for the things you don't advertise. They come because you have Iimpressed them through your advertising, that yours 18 the kind of a store with which they want to deal. You can make everyone know that you select your stock with carg, with taste, with pride, and that you are back of every yard and etitch that goes counterfeit family homes and another desigred to re- Telegraph company to general clerk in the superintendent’s office before taking in the|as sufficlently informed to enable bim lnis present position. strict the sale of liguor Accordiug to bis own confession Holstlaw was more than a mere receiver of bribes. out through your door. Prices won't do it alone. Price counts only when the reader knows what the lofl are, World's Best Pianos A.HOSPE CO. HAVE THE LEADERS Mason : Hamlin Planos have no equal for tone or touch. ‘Kranich & Bach Pianos have stood high in the estimate of the musical public for thirty- five years. Krakauer Pianos recommend themselves. You can’'t find one in use that is not considered the best by its user, Kimball Pianos There are 200,000 and over in actual use both in America and abroad. Bush & Lane Piano with its 20-year factory war- rantee and {ts most excellent architecture of case design can't be beaten. Cable-Nelson Piano As good as the $350 kind— still sold for a great deal less, and it's as reliable us the clock. Hallet-Davis Pianos made just seventy years—You never saw one of them that was worn out. We have a record of some Hallet-Davis Planoe, which had but one tun- ing In 18 years. Cramer Pianos Made in quarter sawed oak, walnut and mahogany cas: $276 18 charged by “elsewhere” —We advertise to sell this for $190, TEN DOLLARS TAKES ONE HOME—ONE DOLLAR WEEK. LY PAYS FOR IT. Sample Pianos from A No. 1 firms are placed on our floors at prices $166, $175, $185, with free stool and Buy Now, It's Your Opportunity A. HOSPE GO, 1518-1515 Douglas St. Pianos Tuned by Expert Tuners a blind man has to keep his eyes open nowadays If he wants to do anything at all, ~Life, sald the .‘:2 you wouldn't dure ~Washington Star. ‘I am wedded to music,” said the ope: T, ou evidently th of ‘the orchestra, treat it as you do. “Do you suppose vour father ob) me because of the fact that 1 am & poet “Oh, dear, no. Pa has a judicial mi and never believes fu condemning on hea say evidence.”—Chicago Record-Herald, Maude—That girl' is a lifelong friend of mine. Ethel—Dear me! And she doesn't | day over 40.—Boston Transcript Talks for people who sell things 80 it is the goods you are advertising, after all. ‘ You can make people read about what you have to sell if you will just make your selling talk interesting. 'I'c hold the trade after you get' il, of course, you must have good goods, fair prices, honesty, sincerity and courtesy to back up the talk A ng marrled woman veiged a pro- test wish 1 could go Intp Jones & Smith's without being bothered yby Mr Jones or Mr. Bmith following ma around 1t's nice to have them show they kiow but they stand over my: shoulder: uniil wish 1 was a man and could swear." Jones & Smith fsn't the store, butjsl & true story and it's an Omaha stote, Some merchants carry thelr personal tentions to the breaking point. Man woman feels that she has to by ti whether she likes them or not, so as to appear small to the proprietor. Aflc while she goes elsewhere. And If the proprietor doesn’t she ls vexed, too, Human nature (s & funny thing, anyway, Tsn't fL? 1 sce lien Advertising breeds formality; famillarity breeds confidence. e Tell me what you eat and wear and 1 tell you that you read advertising. Advertise unto others if ye,would thelr trade should come unto you All beginnings are hard, but l\" of all are those longest deferred with the man who procrastinates vertising. had