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5 Our Clothing Depart erin and yet bound almost at every step to an elaborate democratic con stitntion; to be conservative with the conservatives progressive with the radicals, to have a mind for art, an eye for science, an ear to the nodal neod, to please all, to harm none, be the COMMENCEMENT TIME couutry great or small, the tank of a ment is a Busy Section modern soverign is a difficult one, re quiring talent, force of character and This Season There's a Reason the well balanced conception of mature age. Queen Wilhelmina is warmly beloved by her people in her realm lot forty million persons. The people of this little country are noted the world over for their cleanliness. People that have toured through the Netherlands always is the season when old and young are impressed anew with the fact that success is dependent upon a proper start. Without the proper foundation, unless the right seed has been sown, the worker is sorely handicapped.

Our teachers are doing a splendid work in planting good seed in the schools. I am trying to help by furnishing for farm and garden only the best, strongest and purest seed obtainable. Young and old are assured good crops by buying their seed from come back and tell of the little Dutch The Selection and Quality of and Style arc it Another reason is the low prices made on superior i goods. Our Elk Kuppenheimer and (John-Levy i brands are talked about by all good dressers. I A fine Blue Serge coat and pants, hand tailored at worth more.

A light rough weave in the Elk brand suits at is a hummer. We have lots of styles ranging in prioe from $10 to $20 in young men's suits; try and see them; will be pleased to show you. Now is the Time for Pants maidens with their wooden shoes and scrubbing brushes which they nse every day. Many of them are well-to-do, but still dress in the same quaint costume and while they truly admire the American woman with her fine clothes few of them ever wear them. They will only smile at a passing American aud compliment her and go on, The clayey sandy soil which the river ASHER ADAMS Rhine deposits on the lowlands makes the most fertile farm and pasture'lands 515 MARKET ST.

PHONE 10 in Europe. Although grain must be im ported, there is a large surplus of dairy products for exports, and fisheries are very valuable. Ship building and the making of bricks five employment to many persons. The men are very TT7 (Declaration of Independence framed We have the fam-ous Dutchess make Priocs from to $4. Every pair fully guaranteed.

All new shapes and styles; full peg, peg and regular. ilic Uttblic pinion. sturdy as a rule and very industrious, as tillers of the soil they are hard to beat. Tulip raising is one of the most important industries. Some of the II.

(J. STICIIEIC Editor end Owner prize flowers have brought large prices lj I Ith6TRAN0 3 The Netherlands was the first nation to master the soij and teach agriculture to the world It taught the whole THURSDAY MAY 23, 1912 Straw Hats Men's Straw Hats in endless variety from the 10 cent world to garden. We think the bank of England as the institution of finance, whence the HOLLAND kind to the important Panama at $4.50. Our Royal and Gimbel Hats in the new rough kind are waiting to cover your heads at $2.50 and $3. All guaranteed to give satisfaction.

By Etta Kiesow worlds broadest line of banking have come Hut go back to the establish-rnent in 1609 of the great Dutch bank of Amsterdam with 180 million dollar deposits, preceding the establishment of the bank of England by nearly 100 years. University education in the founding of the great University of Leyden in 1575 marked an epoch in tbe world's history of education and made the Netherlands tbe center of learning of Europe. It was the first country in Our New Line of Tailored Skirts are Here in ummAf ornriole The writer can't describe them III OU11II11LT lUdltnaib. all) but our sales force wants to show them; prices $2.50 to New line of long Coats in Linens, Pongees, and Serges at $4 to $10. In our ready-made dress section we are giving a discount sale, call early New White Duck and New Buck Shoes and Slippers from $150 to $4.00.

the hands of a child irrespective of station. As musicians for nearly 200 AT THE GOOD GOODS STORE years the Netherlands stood supreme. It was the Dutch who founded in Naples the first musical conservatory, in the world. So what the Netherlands has done for America seems not so strange when we consider what this same amazing little country has done for the world. with the phrases of our own.

Here was begun the recording of deeds and Here was established our present university education, also the free pub'ic school system upon which our own is based, even the red and white Btriped flag was born here, each state being represented by a stripe. These facts of which I have spoken are written upon tablets established upon the soil in some of the Dutch cities, all of these things were established in Holland long before the Mayflower ever sailed for Plymouth Rock. It was the Dutch who first introduced to the world the manufacture of woolen cloth that marked the epoch in history also the manufacture of silks, linens, tapestries and laces until it made their cities in Flanders the manufacturing center of the world. Oil painting was also discovered here by the Vane Eych brothers. Holland has given to the world some of the mo4 famous artists, one of the most famous being Paul Potter who lived about the middle of the seventeenth century, as an animal and landscape artist he ranked among the best.

Many pieces of his work are row in the Museum at Amsterdam. The telescope, miscroscope, the ther-nometer and pendulum clock by which the Dutch gave to the world the beginning of anything which we can call accuracy of time. The marvelous discovery of measuring degrees of latitude and longitude, the compass, windmill, glass hot houses, the first bedstead and the first brick all had their beginnings ra the Netherlands. So if we ever ask ourselves why is it that we Americans are so different from the English, let us remember these facts. Queen Wilhelmina had just passed her eighteenth birthday when the regal symbols were laid in her hands, yet her ministers say that she has entered into the detail of laws and administrations in a way "most admirable." She has a decided taste for the Dutch language and literature.

Her wise mother knowing that one of her principal duties would be public speaking, had her trained accordingly and it has been said by a personal friend of the Queen that it is a pleasure to hear her deliver a speech in a voice clear and melodious and in perfect style. She possesses a strong sense of duty which perhaps is nowhere better shown than in the difficult task of reigning over her independent little country. To be a sov- THE TWO BENS MERC. CO. nient of civilization what had often been suggeitedby some scientific in- The Wizard of Menlo Beyond three thousand miles of deep restless ocean in the swirl of blue waters where great river currents wrestle perpetually with sea tides, there floats a green bowl like island upon whose rims, quaint small cities cling.

For centuries the inland hills and meadows have poured their torrents into the sandy gulf; for centuries the ocean tides have thrust them backwards over the lowlands reluctant to receive this new burden into an overfull channel, and from the little patches of table soil, men have watched the ever shifting issues of the battle and striven to wrestle from either victor the fruits of conquest. With all the clayey deposit which the river heaps gently where its lighter waters meet the heavier sea that is carefully ringed by walls and dikes, lies the little kingdom of Holland "The Mother of America The truth as to the vastness of our debt to the Dutch, has been long in reaching the American public, but it is coming out at last. Why has it been so long delayed? Because so much of our history has been written with so great dependence upon English sources and so little upon Dutch sources William Elliott Griffithes, grandson of an Englishman with no Dutch blood in his veins, who has studied American history in Dutch documents lays the time has at last arrived when the truth was about to come out. Not that it means any reflection on England. Because she has never claimed to be the "Mother Country." She has simply accepted what we have laid at her doors.

And what country would of her own volition deny the parentage of such a child? Let us see for a moment where our "Beginnings" came from. In Holland was a federal republic formed by a Congress of state delegates, exactly as we have done. Here was a vestisror, unable to bring it to a sue-ceasful outcome or practical realization. The most used of his inventions next to To The the phonograph is the incaaescent ugni which required a most careful rea- By Hettie Galutia search and ingenuity. Comparing his success with that of Theodore Roos.velt, it is in one sense very difficult to detect much difference.

But it is readily seen after a few We want your Eggs. Sell you Groceries at bottom prices. Progress is the result of man's influence, influence the result of man's Physical ability has been the cause of much poverty, but now that men have be.un to use their intellects, poverty is decreasing, even though we have used our intellect but little Think how long tbe world has stood and then recall, that practically everything we know today that is worth while, we have learned in a hundred years. Look about you and see how many things were worth while that were known one hundred years ago. What we know is but an atom of what there is to know.

moments of thought that Edison stands foremost and is the more euccessful, although Roosevelt's ideas have given our nation great prosperity. A striking example of the efficiency of invention over mere statesmancraft and one of which all know about is the Titanic disaster. Had it had not been for the wireless telegraph perhaps none would have been saved. Edison is known from one end of the world to the other as the greatest of We are learning how to control the forces of nature. As we learn we shall transform.

The most wonderful things thinkers. He has developed mysteries which at the threshhold shave completely baffled other men. This un are coming, changes about which no S. E. BALOCCA, YOUR SERVANTS Phone 23.

Osage City one today can do more than dream doubtedly has been because his in The world is flooded with food, cloth tellect is superior in logic, in intellectuality and in the knowledge lof the fundamental law of cause and effect. It ing, shelter and luxuries; what good would it do the world if a few men The Suits for Little Boys own all these? is this superior ability Jwhich his friends think has given him the All these things Thomas A. Edison courage of his convictions. The cer- had thought of. He realized the great taintv that he is right in any important ness of the problem but he believes "it is a problem in the solving of which, matter, although his critics cry that his last utterances to the public prove neither he nor his kind can help him to have finally lost his wits after People can provide governmental means for keeping the riches they make, but nianv years of achievements, shows him to be an inventor who stands unique an inventor can make the world rich, among those of the nineteenth century and holding to this belief he began his ho have applied scientic discovery to life's work, at a very early age, spend-ing his spare moments in boyish ex periments in electrical apparatus.

the ordinary uses of man. His boldness in overcoming experimental difficulties and his successful achievement of what Edison was a brilliant and rapid might be termed "the all but impossi operator. He was besides fun loving, erratic as well as fond of experiment Put the little chap into one of our Wash Suits and then turn him loose for the summer. Our cool tubable clothes are a specialty in our Boys' Department. We've any number of pretty, exclusive styles, and each of the many prices stands for excellent value.

Sizes 3 to 7 years Prices from 50c to $2.50 ble," have secured for him the name of ing, and while thus engaged, he made his first important invention, which i ss wizard. In considering his life and work however, the distinction must be made between the pure scientest with enabled him to transmit automatically on a second line without the presence of xuur lavunu; uniiK is here mathematical and philosophical knowl an operator. His next work was that of a vote recorder, but was not very successful. Others were the Btock edge, and the ingenious inventor, who can apply a scientific truth to the printer, automatic telegraph and tele practical end. Of this later c'ass Edison stands at the head.

phone which were more successful. His latest invention is the phonograph which has been pronounced one of the rt rtiii 1 1111 11 greatest success throughout the world. Few scientific discoveries are credited to Edison; but he has triumphed over Printers Have good 23 inch paper cutter, stapler, and about 5o fonts of job and advertising type and cases and racks for sale cheap. Also several cone pullies and shafting. H.

C. Sticher, Public Opinion, Osage City, Kansas, SILVENS almost insurmountable difficulties and by his skill and ingenuity has brought to practical use and for the advance- TRAGOOJJ.