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14 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE r SUNDAY, AFRIL 3, 1904. Tim Omaiia Sunday Der K. RfH UW A T K R , EDITOR. rUBUSHKU KVKKV MOKNING. terms or srn.'K-nii'Tio:;. Pnlljr P.oe wlth" .l Kuml ij.i, On" Year..lt1 1'iuiy jiee ana n i.iy, im ie.ir Illustrated Hw, otm ic. r Bumlay Be Un Yeir Saturday lo, unn Year Twentieth t'rntury Farmer, One Yeir. I)KLIVKUKD HY C'ARiMER. 6 " 1.511 l.Kl . 2c Amny nee iwitn'itii r iilliyi, p( r eoi . ally Hoe (without Suni.iyi, pi r wc-k...l2o Hilly lif- (inclinllng ti.inilny). per week..i7c Sunday lice, per ij !c Evening Je-e (without Sum! iy, per wr"k. 8c Evening lsee (Imiullng Sunday), per week li: Complaints of Irregularity in delivery Should he uddied.se, 1 to City Circulation Ovpartment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Booth Omaha it v Hah Holloing, Twenty-tilth and M Btrcets. i Council Ulufta 1I l'earl Street Chicago I'nltv l.ulhling. New York J'nrk Kuw Building. Wellington Mil Fourteenth Street. CORRES PON D E NC K. iiiuiitiniciiiinnn relating o news ana edi torial nintter should he addressed: Omaha Ij t'.ll I t. . REMITTANCES. - Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable, to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal ch ks. except on Omaha, or eastern exchanges, not accented. THE BE I'UBLISlllNG COMPANY'. STATEMENT OF CIRCCLATION. State of Nebraska. llousrUa f'nunlv. s Ooorge H. Tsmhuek, secretary of the Bee i-uDiisning i;oiiin), bulng duly sworn, Bays that the actual num.ier of full and complete conies of The DhIIv Murnlm Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the momn or jaarcn, kam, was us lolluas: 1 !HMTO 17 3U.BTO .. o,i ia o,;tio t 3vuw 19 SM.KTU 4 KO,9N 2') 2-MUlO 6 ai,i2o n ao.iuo 6 97,010 22 ao.lHO 7 no.Hwo a zit.x'M 8 St.lHU 24 2?,X'l ,7w 25 n;,!i-.K 10 0,72O 2'j ao.wio 11 WMHK 27 2I1.NOO 12 2i Jtl,710 13 2!) au.itio 14 af,fMw so ao.ooo 15 8VUM) 31 2D,0 i ao.ano Total OiiO.StlU Less unsold and returned copies.... 10,:i:r.l Net total sales !nt,KS7 Net average sales 21MIT3 UEO. U. TZgcm'CK. Subscribed In my presence nnd sworn to before me this 1st day of April. A. I)., 19'jf. (Seal) M. IS. Ill'NOATE, ; Notary Public. Now watch tho Easter bonnet blooui. Constellations aud eclipses appear to be the regular order in the railroad Qnnameut just now. Another gnsolluo explosion over the Rockefeller donation Is due from the local demo-pop yellow. Colonel Bryan will not have to go to the poor house whether he gets that Bennett bequest or not. The Dreyfus case must be making progress, as our old acquaintance, Du Paty de Clam, has reappeared on the icene. If beef costs no less after the investi gation the public may have the satis faction .of knowing why It costs no more than it does. - The canal commissioners show, their discretion In making their excursion to the isthmus at a season when climatic conditions are Inviting. Admiral Dewey seems inclined to modify his comparison between the Cubans and the Filipinos since bis re cent visit to the Antilles. The war correspondents evidently made a mistake. There is more chance for them to exercise their talents in Thibet than in Manchuria. ! 111 I ! Those experts who predicted that the Russo-Japanese war would not be of the ihort-and-sharp variety evidently knew what they were talking about. It begins to look as if the committee will finally lay the blame for the worst part of the "Brtstow" report upon the proofreader in the public printing office. It turns out that Senator Burton's un pardonable sin was his declaration that bis colleagues in the senate were more or less engaged In the same sort of busi ness. Great Brttula having lifted the lid off Thibet the world will now discover what is under the "roof of the world." The chances are that there will be more dust than dollars. Owners of ship who complain of the ale of firearms by Americans to San Dominican Insurgents could easily ren der those arias ineffective ay refusing to transport them. The disincllaation of Japanese officers to permit foreign officers to aceorupuny the troops may be due to a desire to get exclusive information for magazine articles after the war has eaded. According to the Ministerial alliance Of that city. Rt Louis, among other things, will show visitors the wickedest city on earth. The World's fair ad vertising bureau Is working overtime. Ilavlng failed to aut when it lost the state ef Panama, Colombia Is not likely to emugo n hostilities as the re mit of the decision of the French courts, Iiwplte the threats of Its unsocial agent. If something Is not doue for it soon, the vice presidential boom thrust on former Chief Justice Sullivan of Ne braska by the democratic state commit tee will lapse under the statute of limi tations. The house of representatives evidently desires to keep up with the record of Commissioner Ware in swelling the 'pension rolls. Evidence Its formal ap proval of 2U private pension, bills Saturday. For some uuuccountalile reason the ante of Adlal Steveusou hss not been bantered about very lively of late iu eennection with the democratic nomina tion for the presidency. Va stay be lure, noua ths lets, that It is not Adlal's fault. IVrtK.VATO.Tt rotiTAL BKRVICB. A conitress, representing practically ciery country on tho five subdivisions of the glolie constituting the t'nl versul I'ostnl union, liej,'an its session In the city or Koine on tho 21st day of March. It n:ny not be generally know ii. Imt it Is nevertheless n fact, that the initiative for the orpinlzatlon of an International postal union was taken by the United States, through suggestions submitted by William II. Seward as secretary of st:ite, to the principal European nations, and the first lnter luitioiul postal congress met in Berne, Swlteerland, In 1874 just thirty years ngo. When the world's postal union was first orgnnlzed only eleven nations participated in the treaty, while the Inst congress, held In Washington in the spilnir of 181)7, was composed of representatives of sixty-two nations practically every civilized nation on tho globe. In the evolution of the international postal service from Its crude beginning to Its remarkable efficiency wonderful strides have been made. Thirty years ago letters mailed In the United States with Australia as their destination could reach the latter country by five differ ent routes and the postage for any single letter ranged from 35 cents to $1. At that period, and even at a later period still, letters directed to points on the European continent were trans mitted over six different mall routes from this country and the postage varied all the way from 10 cents to 25 cents. Today n 5-cent stamp will carry a letter from the United States to any country In Europe and most every country in Asia, Africa, South America and Australia. The development of the International postal service is, however, ns yet not as perfect as it can and will be made, and the congress now In session will doubtless Improvise improvements and remove many obstacles that may still bp In the way of safe, rapid and uni form Interchange of correspondence by mail between the various nations that now .constitute the world's postal union. A LITTLE MORE LIGHT. A good many people in this city nnd county are seriously perplexed and badly muddled over the question whether It will be safe and sagacious for them to vote for the county refunding bonds at Tuesday's election. For the benefit of this class The Bee proposes to throw a little more light on the subject. 1. The proposed bond Issue is not de signed to create a new debt, but to pay off an old debt at a lower rate of In terest than we are now paying. The bonds will bear 3 per cent interest on their face, but they may, and doubt less will, be bought in by the state as an Investment of the state school fund for 34 and possibly 34 per cent, and tho difference in Interest will be taken out by detaching coupons so that the county may have to pay no Interest on these bonds for the first year or two at least. 2. The floating debt of the county ex ceeds 300,000 now and $105,000 of tills amount is represented by warrants bear ing 7 per cent Inteiest The object of the bond issue Is to take up $200,000 of this debt and let the remainder be paid off out of the taxes collected under the scavenger law, while the taxes collected under last year's levy would pay the current expenses of the county asa thus place its affairs on a cash basis. 3. The issue of the bonds. If authorized by a majority of the voters next Tues day, Is not compulsory. The county board may issue any amaunt of bonds up to $200,000 it deems necessary for the refunding af the loattag debt or it may refrain from issuing any of them in case the receipts from the enforcement of the scavenger law are sufficient to pay off the floating debt, which, how ever, is not likely t be the case. 4. The proceeds from the sale of the bonds will go into the county treasury ana not a dollar can a drawn ant, ex cepting far the payment ef autstandlng warrants or new warrants issued far debts already existing. If any part of the proceeds of the bond sale remains in the treasury it will be placed on deposit in the county's depositories and draw 2 per cent Interest for the county. The assumption that the county board can expend any part af this meaey far any ether purpose than refunding exist ing debts is entirely unwarranted. Such an act would be illegal sad members of the board, the treasurer sad their bondsmen wauld be responsible for the diversion of the funds. me orsrtn as as ia$ua. The people of the sUte af Maryland are not only divided la regard ta tl9 question of negra disfranchisement, but they are even more keenly con cerned respecting the question af pre serving the oyster Industry, which is a matter of very material iiuportauce to that commonwealth. It appears that the oyster Industry of Maryland has for some years been steadily declining nnd that It is threatened with total ex tinction, unless something be done to restore it to its former position as one of the chief and most profitable Indus tries of that commonwealth. It would seem that in view of the great decline noted 1b this hitherto valu able industry every Marylander would be more than anxious to have legisla tion for promoting its restoration, yet there is a determined opposition in the legislature to measures that have been introduced Intended to rehshllltato the oyster Industry aad place it upoa the basis It formerly enjoyed. So Intense Is the feeling respecting the matter that It has assumed tha significance of a political Issue and tha Baltimore Sun warns the democrats of the legislature, who are largely in the majority, that If they refuse to do what is necessary fir the salvation of the oyster industry they must expect to be defeated when they again ask for popular support That paper tells them candidly that if the do not vota for the greater culti vation of the oyster, which is so es sential to the material welfare of Mary land, they must expect to suffer defeat when they again appeal to the people. Tho very general sentiment, It is not to be doubted. Is with the friends of the oyster. We have no hesitation In saying that cverylxxly who eats oysters and who does not Is desirous for the cultivation of the succulent bivalve on the most liberal scale and It may be remarked that there is none better than the Baltimore brand, as every one who has ever eaten oysters in that city will unqualifiedly attest. It will be very generally hoped that the Maryland leg islature will do all that Is possible to promote the cultivation of the oyster In the waters of that state. JAPAN'S UBJKCTIVK POJT. A few days ago the dispatches stated that Japan's objective point is Harbin and an official at Toklo was quoted as saying that if Harbin be taken Japan will appeal to Ensland and America to keep Manchuria open. It is not to be doubted that such an appeal would be heeded, but it Is a mlshty task which the Japanese have before them In order to reach the point where the Russians have established their headouarters a task hardly less difficult than the union army had in reaching Richmond and far more difficult than the British army had In fighting Its way to Pretoria. It means overcoming a Russian army at present estimated at not less than 170, 000 nnd which Is steadily being re inforced, a march of hundreds of miles through a country that will be denleted of everything that can sustain a mili tary force and the loss of tens of thou sands of men and Inevitably many re verses. Harbin, which Is the headquarters In Manchuria of the Russians. Is In the heart of that province and is peculiarly a Russian town, Just as much as though It were located in Russia, it is about 3.10 miles west of Vladivostok and I0 miles north of Port Arthur. It Is in the midst of one of the most productive regions of Manchuria and contains a population estimated at 00,000, exclusive of soldiers. It is quite a manufacturing center, the principal product being flour, of which its mills have a capacity that will almost supply the needs of the Russian nrmy In Manchuria. If the Japanese could capture Harbin It would give them control of Manchuria, but the task seems almost Impossible. Even with no more than the present Russian army in Manchuria, accepting the estimates as correct, It should be able to prevent several times its number for an indefinite time from, capturing Harbin, but Russia is steadily increas ing her forces nnd within a few months, It Is thought, will have in Manchuria nearly double1 the present number. Viewing the situation, therefore, as It now appears, it would seem that Japan should not undertake to do more than seek to dislodge the Russians from their present strongholds, which if accom plished would enable Japan to com mand conditions quite as satisfactory as if her armies penetrated Into the heart of Manchuria, while "her losses would probably be less. . It is not absolutely necessary to the success of Japan that Harbin be caD- tured. If she can drive the Russians from the strategic points they are now occupying nnd hold them the victory will be sufficiently complete to permit her to dictate terms of peace if she desires to do so, even thaugh the Rus sians should still make their headqunr- ters hundreds of miles from the nrcsent arena of active hostilities. TitTiira tv AititT tariff iffis. It appears that tha Department of State, among its many exacting duties, is addressing Itself to the task of en deavorlag to avert proposed tariff wars In Europe on products of this country. This would seem to be an unusual un dertaking for a department of the gov ernment which Is commonly supposed to bo exclusively engaged in looking after matters of diplomacy, yet it is by no means outside of the peculiar functions of that department which makes treaties with foreign powers, that it should interest itself in the question of tariffs abroad that have reference to tho interests of American trade. It is pointed out that nearly all ef Europe Is at present engagad in a re vision of taril laws and that the trend everywhere is in tha direction of pro tection of a more or lees pronounced variety. American exporters are watch ing prospective changes ia the customs duties closer than our diplomatic repre sentatives aad as soon as 'a merchant f nds thst his trade is threatened by. a hostile tarla? ho calls upon the Depart ment of State for relief. It is Bald that in this way the premier of the cabinet baa been appealed to constantly in tha past year aad that he has. done whatever was within bis authority to meet the calls thus made upon him. At present the most serious danger con fronting American manufacturers in the general advance proposed In European tariffs Is in Germany, but tho revised law in that country which is largely directed against our products has not yet gone into effect though there is every reason to expect that it twill do so at the appointed time, which Is only a few months hence. It is In the dis cretion of the emperor when tha law shall become effective, but It is not probable that he will delay Ita enforce ment from any consideration for Ameri can laterests, since every Industrial In terest in tha German empire is demand ing that tha new tariff be put into effect at the designated time. There are com mercial Interests In Germany that are not favorable to It ant these were not able to prevent tha enactmeat of the law and doubtless will sot be able to prevent Ita being carried out The course of Germany and some other European countries with reference to American competition Is still a matter that may well occasion solicitude In re gard to tho future of our foreign trade. As we noted a few daya ago this trade has increased in value during the last eight months, but we cannot be confi dent that there will be an Increase in the future If existing conditions are un changed. The tendency in Europe to ward the adoption of policies antago nistic to American competition In the markets of European countries Is nn mistakable. A notable example Is fur nished in the revised tariff of Switzer land, which Is especially hostile to American manufactures. The idea of a European Bollvereln with particular reference to the United States seems to have been abandoned ns Impracticable, owing to tho diverse In terests of the countries necessary to such a union, but a separate policy of discrimination Is altogether feasible, How to avert this is a question that should command the most serious at tentlon of American statesmen. LOOK BKFUR TOV LEAP. The citizens of South Omaha should look ahead before taking their political leap next Tuesday. They should ask themselves in all seriousness what they have to gain and what they have to lose by Jumping from Koutsky to Hoctor, Let them ask themselves in all sobriety what they have to gain by turning down a mayor who has endeavored to serve them faithfully, honestly nnd to his best ability for a man whose past con duct course nnd policy does not promise the slightest improvement but, on the contrary, is almost sure to result In leakages that would drain their treasury without leaving much of a trace? Does not prudence dictate to "let well enough alone?" It Is also a very serious question whether tho taxpaylng citizens of South Omahn can afford to remain idle spec tators of the movement on the part of the big corporations to foist upon them n tax commissioner, who will do their bidding instead of treating nil interests from the humblest to the most wealthy impartially, and making every property owner bear his Just share of the burden of taxation. It Is an open secret that these concerns are boosting O'Connor and seeking to encompass the defeat of O'Neill nnd for that, if for no other reason, Mr. O'Neill should receive the cordial support of tho great mass of taxpayers ns well as of all other classes of voters who desire fair play. DVSIAKSS IS MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT "Municipal administration Is as much a profession as that of civil engineering or the law, and to take the average man, no matter how capable he may be in his chosen line of work, and put him at work on this new line and in unfamiliar surroundings and then expect him to be successful Is unfair and absurd." This is the answer made by Clinton Rogers Woodruff, the secretary of the National Municipal league, to the commonly met demand that the administration of city affairs must be managed by business men. To this proposition he puts in a decided dissent, except so far as it may mean that they must be managed as business affairs are, by men specially fitted aud trained to the task. It will be recalled that the same Idea was nd vanced recently by Prof Richard T. Ely in his little book on "The Coming City," In which he advocates the transfer and promotion of efficient municipal officers from a smaller city to a larger city, where their experience will come into larger play and their opportunities be increased. The difficulty in the way of such a program Is not so much in its intrinsic feasibility as in the local prejudice against tho importation of public officers from abroad often embodied in strict legal prohibitions and In the confidence of each community in its own self- sufficiency. Every city in the country 1s cocksure that for nearly every po sition required In Its municipal govern ment It has among its own Inhabitants men fully qualified or capable of de veloping the requisite quail fl cations. Mr. Woodruff would have us dis tinguish between the work of admin istration and the work of formulating policies, and this distinction is already manifest In many places. We, for ex- ample, have little hesitancy In calling in from abroad an experienced Are chief, or electrical engineer, or public works expert, although we would not think of searching far for a myor, a treas urer or nn auditor, while councilmen, who are the managing directors of the municipal corporation, ure supposed to grow on every bush. The establishment of a municipal clvJl service and the elimination of purely administrative po sitions from the list of elective offices is unquestionably the trend, not only among the most advanced students of municipal government but also In the practical legislation for charter making. The Inhabitants of our American cities, however, will not let the control of their municipal affairs get out of their own hands or accept any sclTeme of perma nent tenure or civil service that destroys responsibility and accountability. The principles of popular self-government are too thoroughly Ingrained to be sac rificed even for the promise of greater efficiency and economy. The evils of favoritism, nepotism and corruption are not necessarily banished by the employ ment of imported experts or the pro motion of experienced subordinates. All of these problems must be solved with their own remedies, while business methods in city administration must be enforced by intelligent discretion in the selection of public officers, whether elective or appointive, nnd constant vigilance over them when they are in stalled. Senator Clark says that the cattlemen of Wyoming want the land laws re pealed. Senator Gibson says that the cattlemen of Montana want them to re main as they are. What about the cattleman whose cattle run In both states? The Smoot Investigating committee will continue to take testimony through the coming recess of congress. In the meanwhile the body over whom the in quest is being held Is a live enough corpse to hold on to his seat in the sen ate and continue to draw his pay regularly. The Chicago Chronicle and Colonel Bryan for once appear to be practically agreed that the candidacy of Judge Tarker is highly quesUonable. It would be the Joke of the season If they should both finally got together by swallowing the question mark. Basis of Intellectual Energy. Minneapolis Times. An eastern teacher with a most appro priate name Miss Nutting has proclaimed In stentorian tones that spanking a child t good for Its brain. It might be If there wasn't too much distraction about It to permit the spankee from thinking about bis brain during the process. Sure Thins! Baltimore American. Mr. Bryan says that there will be Inter esting times at the next democratic na tional convention. It needs no voice come from the grave or Nebraska to tell us this. Free fights on go-as-you-pleasa lines are. always Interesting, no matter what ths particular subject of debate. Seasonable Warning;. Atlanta Constitution. In round figures there are 80,000,000 mi crobes in a plats of Ice cream, and the name of the microbe would drive the most alphabetically notorious Russian to suicide. We merely mention this as a warniag to our women friends, knowing that the Im minent heated term has sore temptations. Exhllarntlna; inconsistency. Brooklyn Eagle. Here is a woman suing a manufacturing concern for $5,000, because It used her pic ture In Its advertisements, and here are other women who would give that sum tf they could see their portraits In the paper only once. What a pity that you can't make lightning strike where It ought to go! But for those deeply aggrieved there Is always the resource of having some un speakable ailment, and taking twenty-five bottles of somebody's exhllnrator for It. Darlnsr Skill of Surgeons. New York World. Early In the month of March a surgeon stood with the bcntlng heart of a live man held In his hand. He took six stitches In the organ, put It back In the right place, and the man lived on. The operation was ns of a series of surgical marvels of the last two or three years through which the heart has ceased to be the one part of the body sacred from the daring knife and needle. And now there Is news of the heart massage. The vital organ Is ex posed and subjected to gentle manipula tions which restore Its beating. So life returns to persons who have seemed to die. Nor do the newest marvels of surgery stop with operations upon the heart. Within a week there has been ennounced at a Philadelphia hospital the miracle of splicing nerves. An Interrupted telegrapr.o circuit of the body was remedied, Just as a Western Union line Is restored to serv ice by the piecing of two wires. The world moves on, and the doctors with it The one point further for science to go is to demonstrate life Itself. TIPS OX THIS VALtE OP REST. "The Pleasant Und of the Counter pane" Editorially O. K'd. New York Tribune. Men snd women who have reached the stage where the doctor's services are needed must be left to his care. It Is to those who have not yet reached the border land of nervous prostration that the hint to them to look after the cause of their worry and nervous exhaustion In insufficient sleep Is likely to be most beneficial. The hint. It may readily be conceded, is mors easily given than acted upon In the modern city, where ths city Itself never sleeps, and where the conditions making for natural repose are difficult, and, la some oases. Im possible of achievement. The thunder of the elevated, ths whirl and rattle of ths electrlo car and the almost ceaseless noises of the streets are ths lullaby of the urban lte, and ths sleep that comes In such cir cumstances knits up but slowly the ravelled sleeve of care and sends still more slowly fresh and healthful blood to build up ths brain cells, with their delicate tentaclos radiating through the gray matter fatigued by ths constant calls upon It In ths busy day of modern city life. If possible, ths city dweller feeling this constant strain upon his nervous system should seek ths qatet and freshness of country air, sleep with open windows, and live. If only for a few weeks or months, a simple, natural life. It Is only In such surroundings that he can secure ths amount of sleep neoessary to restore ths tone and vigor of his systsm and avoid a possible, or even probable, nervous collapse. A sea voyags la often an excellent tonic and restorative; a jour ney to strange lands and scenes may af ford the tired brain the necessary change and relief. But to the tired many, to whom rest is a luxury and travel an impossibility. "the pleasant land ef counterpane" Is still accessible, and they should make their stay In It as long as possible until ths systsm Is once mors restored to Its natural vigor. Hl'GB FEES FOR LAWfERI. Fancy Rot suras twr Legal S ta Laura Oases. New Ysrk World. Ths fee ef "a csel million" which Walt street guesses that William Nelson Crom well wUl gt fsr his services as counsel for tha Panama Csnal company may not bs regarded as exorbitant. The saf guldanoe of the Interests of ths "French company" during Intricate negotiations called for legal skill of the kind which attains Its highest development In corporation prac tice. This, it Is beltsvsd. Is tho highest flgurs In lawyers' fees, realising In cash what Mr. Max Pam was to have received in "collateral" fer his "services" In ths Bethlehem-Shipbuilding trust affair. Its sis Is significant of the commercial expansion of the psst quarter of a century. Ths 1400,000 received by John E. Parsons for organising ths 8ufrar trust, deemed excessive at ths time, but justified by ths law-defying sub stantiality of the work would not today excite corpment. Crime no longer holds out such legal re wards as ar offered by commerce. . Ths lawyers who defended Whltaker Wright got only about IS.000 for their services. Canfletd was reputed to have paid John B. Stanchfleld 130,000 for dissolving the injunc tion against him. John G. Carlisls got I25,0n fer his conduct of the Preston Becil case before the Kentucky court of appeala In the scale ef fees the correspond only to those paid In the lesser litigation of cor porations net yet expanded to trust size. Suits Involving large estates yield counsel returns partly eeramensurate. The Flsks will rsss gainst Cornell university erst ths heirs $400,000. Ths legal expenses in the Fair will case are said to have amounted te rtto.ooo. The prevailing higher rate of legal com pensation is Indicated In the counsel fees of 13.000 allowed by the court In a recent local divorce oase. But Mr. Cromwell's fee, If It really Is to bs a million, represents more than the average yearly loeom of LOU) young lawyer. BLASTS FROM RAM'S IIORtt. Jehovah In a Judge at every election. Home-made yokes are always heaviest. A money spendthrift Is a moral suicide. The Wind child can see Its father's love. The promises add power to our prayers. Virtue for a wnge Is first cousin to vice. leadership does not depend wholly on leg ability. One side of an argument Is always less thsn half of it. Christ turns the curse of labor Into ths blessing of service. The world has been going up ever since the word came down. Deeds and not distances make tha mile stones on the heavenly road. The distinction between the wily and the wicked Is too fine for the wise. There are many things that till the heart, but few of them can furnish It. 8ome of the lowest places In a city are likely to bo owned In the highest. As soon ns a child knows Its father on earth It ought to know Its Father In heaven. If prayer always brought material profit It would soon be tho prey of the speculator. The worm that works In the trunk Is al ways advertised somewhere on the branches. There is something to prayer more than shutting your eyes and opening your mouth. FAVOHITK FRl'IT OF ADAM. Mighty Good Th In a tor Modern Mem bers of the Fa rally. Baltimore American. The apple has figured so long as the original cause of all the Ills that humanity Is heir to that It Is something of an Innova tion to find It pronounced the best friend of man, nnd as having not only good physical effects upon him, but also a decided moral Influence for the better. The director of pomology at the coming World's fair In St. Louis says that the apple will cure the drink and drug habit; that It will prove an antidote to tobacco, and cure low morals when used as a steady diet. A day In Sep tember has been selected as apple day, and on that date l.OOO.W) upples will be distrib uted, with pamphlets setting forth the vir tues of this amiable and exemplary fruit. There may be more in this theory than tho funny man and the critics will allow. Happiness depends on health, and wicked ness can often be traced to dyspepsia or un favorable liver conditions; bad temper cer tainly Is a characteristic of the latter, and nobody can deny that badly cooked dlnr.ers are capable cf making hungry men feel murderous. Hence, it Is fair to conclude thnt diet Is much more of a moral agent than It Is generally given credit for being. A good meal will do far more toward con vincing a man of the errors of his ways than n sound sermon. A man whose food agrees with him, and who is supplied with the right kind, Is more apt to be a better father, u tenderer hurband. a more upright citizen than the man whose passions are continually inflamed by fits of Indigestion, until lie looks on every man as an enemy and on everything in llfo with a Jaundiced eye. Coming down to the bottom facts, diet la really the basis of the wholo social, moral and physical structure of t!i human sys tem. The soul of a man Is wlu.t he Is, and ho Is what he eats. A man who Is dyspeptics cannot be kind, charitable and loving. A man w' t is bilious cannct be unselfish, high-minded and noble. ' hen a man's stomach is out of ordor it lb useless to hold up to him high ideals of living; one might as well expect to run a fast express in Its best trim on defective fuel. Desire of stim ulants and drugs do not come from well nourished end healthy systems; experienced workers among the poor have agreed that soup is a moral argument to empty stom achs on the necessity of religion not to be despised. So this cure-all apple may be symbolical of the great truth that a good digestion Is a big aid to a good conscience, and that the real solution of the great human problems which have hitherto been mistakenly handed over to mind and senti ment is good diet and plenty of it SCHOOL SUPERVISION. Its Worth Shoald Be Measured by Hlgrher Standards. Dr. J. M. Rice In The Forum. Th duty of knowing what can and ought to be accomplished In the elementary schools, and of knowing, furthermore, which of the schools are and which are not, doing satisfactory work, devolves, of course, upon the superintendent; for if su pervision has any purpose whatever it is to see that the schools are conducted upon a plane of reasonable efficiency. If we accept this muclt, we must also agree that the fundamental condition ot successful supervision is constituted by a knowledge of the best that can be done; for It is evident that the term "efficient service" can convey no definite meaning unless baaed upon a clear conception of what our most successful teachers have been able to accomplish. And if this be true, It is equally true that the funda mental condition of successful supervision has not yet come Into being; for standards In educational achievement are as yet abso lutely unknown. In brief, up to the present time, every superintendent has been simply a law unto himself, and supervision has been merely a haphazard affair. In thus criticising supervision I desire to emphasise the fact that my remarks are directed against our system of supervision, and not against the superintendents them selves, who, as a rule, are extremely ear nest and hard-working men. In a word, the difficulty does not lis with the super vising officers, but is due, fundamentally, to the perverted view that the teacher's efficiency must be estimated by what she knows and by the methods she employs, and not by what she accomplishes. In consequence of this, the supervising officers have largely lost sight of results, and have concentrated their efforts upon observing their teachers at work and upon teaching them psychology and methods. And this again has led to the current view that ths efficiency of a superintendent must be esti mated by the number of visits he pays to the schoele, the amount of psychology be knows, th number of teachers' meetings be hold, the breadth of his course of study, the ciiarsoter of his reports, etc., etc.; while th actual worth of supervi sion must not be looked for In the ways and means by which it approaches the ed ucational problem, but In the extent to which It realises Its purposes, I. e., th ex tent to which the schools succeed In de veloping Intelligence and efficiency In the children, and this can only be teoted by testing the Intelligence and efficiency of the children. Tenth Belled Down. Detroit Free Press. The man who puts his riches In trusts appears to b worse oft than th on who puts bis trust la riches. It's a fact that below a certain price, the best in quality is inv possible. Sheridan Coal Has struck that point exactly. Not only the best for the price, but the best coal at any price. Nut $G.OO fine for cooking. Lump, f 6.50 for heaters. VICTOR WHITE COAL CO , 1603 Tarnam St Tel. Ul FCVtVAR SHOTS AT THE Pll.PlT. Indianapolis Journal: Dowle had another pleasant Sunday at Melbourne, liMng chased around the city by "the rougher element." Alexander shouldn't foment men a breaking of the Sabbath day. Ixmlsvllle Courier-Journal: A New York minister declares that there are no women angels In heaven. If that Is true ih earth Is not as bad a plsre as some theo logians Insists It Is; there are a good munj women angels hero. Buffalo Express: Nearly 60 per cent ot the Protestant and Hebrew ministers In Rhode Island have promised to perform no marriage ceremony where one of ths parties has been divorced. When the other 60 per cent ar gathered in, divorced people will continue to remarry; but not in ths churches. Philadelphia Record: That stormy petrel of Methodism, Dr. Ella C. Swallow, Is having a halycon and vociferous time of it In the Central conference at Harrisburg. As a rule his brethren de not appear to be ablo to go along with Mm. As a conse quence there is heated debate. The theo logical fur flies. There Is difficulty In en forcing parliamentary rules. In the end Brother Swallow Is overwhelmed; but he has never been subdued. As other men dote on peace and quiet ho dotes on controversy. Chicago Tribune: Ordinarily, the preacher who speaks against the newspaper for not giving more space to church and religious news Is inconsistent. Times beyond count he himself goes to th newspaper for his text. Why. with the Bible In hand, should he take up some local situation, or political Intrigue, or chanos happenlnr In the world s busy life, and talk to the them to the exclusion of the book of bookaj Why else, unless the strict doctrinal toplo has palled upon his hearers? And if It has palled upon holders of pews In his church, shall it be made a news feature to the world when a convention of suoh churches Is assembled for dootrinal debate and routine business? PERSONAL AM OTHERWISE. Sure signs of soring domlnat tha t. scape today. Easter lids top the enchant ing spectacle. It has been decided to open the St. Louis fair with an ode. Here's hoping it will not close with an owed. All quiet In the Balkans. No Macedonian cry rends the cable. War correspondents are chasing larger game. Another floored pugilist threatens to for sake the arena for the bar. The change In volves n restriction of vocal talents. Shanghai correspondents are painfully re miss In their duty. In all the bombard ments yet had no mule has been reported killed. A man In a Pennsylvania town has taken a pledge against playing poker for ninety nine years Men have no business with woman's weapon, anyhow. Five Chicago men came within a scratch of being convicted of murder on the coached testimony of a B-year-old-glrl. The Incident Illustrates the possibilities of a robust, full grown professional witness. A test shows that a culture plate can ac cumulate 1.000 colonies of microbes In a New York street car. Shucks! A South side car in Omaha can show up enough robust oolonles to smash the plate and run away with the fragments. Editor Bok tells in dear little paragraphs how he went to New York city and con founded hotel, restaurant and hack tipsters. It Is gratifying to learn from such high authority that Philadelphia editors cannot be worked successfully when they stray away from home. Now comes a Milwaukee preacher with the declaration that Noah Raby, the Jer sey man who claimed to be 132 years of age, was "the greatest liar that ever lived." He outclassed Munchausen, Mulhstton and Colonel Ager. Raby can't deny the allega tion. He Is dead. People who think the civilization of Japan is a thin veneer should revUe their notions, Japan has developed a large class of pa triots capable of staying at home and mak ing money out of war. The most advanced nations could not make a better showing In the same Una DOMESTIC PLUASAXTRIES. "A penny for your thoughts," he said. "Oh. they're not worth it." she replied. "I wa thinking of you." Chicago Post. "And you want to marry this young man, you say?" "Yes, papa." ' "What does he do for a living?" "O, papa, I don't know him well enough to ask him about that." Yonkers Stated man. "Mamma, how much alimony did vou re ceive when you got divorced from papa?" "8h! My dear child, don't you know that It 1h an Indication of very poor taste to talk of financial matters In the pres ence of formal callers?" Cklcagu Record Herald. "Your rich brother Is la tho hospital, lsn t ho?" "Yes." "And how Is he progressing?" "Oh, I'm dreadfully worried about him." "So sorry. Are you afraid he will not recover?" "Oh, no, It Isn't that Vm worried about. It's his pretty nurse." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mabel Why In tears? Doesn't the ring please ymi? Helen Oh, It is beautiful, but I fear thst the stone is Imlt-itlon. "Why?1 "Arthur didn't say Anything about re turning It In case I don't marry him." Town Topics. When a woman of 3 tells you In a burst of frankness that she Is Just 28. always try to look surprised and say: "Why. I never drmrrifl you were more than 23!" Sntnervllls Journal. Talk about men being lord of erection! Why. I can twist that husband of mine ar'end my little finger." "Yes. I suppnss so. He's rather small, Isn't he snd quite slender?" "8mall snd slender? He Isn't anv such thlnir! There's enourh of him. let re toll you. to mike a million such husbands as yours!" Chlesgo Tribune. THE SINGIXG OF Ttllfi Nt'KS. The first fslnt stre.ik of morning light Had banished vlhluns uf the nlglit And awaJtened me. and all around Was mill, when suddi nly a nouiui. As from some Mrange. ethereal sphere, V as wafted softly to my ear The low, sweet chanting of a prayer. Which seemed to cieuve the upper air, And pierce tli harriers of the ky To reach the throne of llim on high. And, though I iiiMieratood no woid, The solemn thought 1 pluinly hrari. Willie all in earelehd tlurnhcr slept. These faithful nuns Ihelr vigil kept, Arising early that they might Their spirits make a purer white. Adoring with true songs of fove The holy Christ In hv'n snove. My soul, long cloeed In earthly sin, Op d s.iildenly. and uulckly in A higher longing crept, and my Poor heart stmt forth a plaintive cry, And Joined these sisters in thir song Their plea for vlot'ry o'er life's wrong. ORAC13 SORENSON.