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Under present conditions Corea ran be
depended upon to laugh whenever Japan
la tickled.
Every cloud has a silver lining. The
storm-driven wayfarer can seek con
solation In bock beer.
The Cuban congress is amusing Itself
with a deadlock of its own. Anything
to be thoroughly up-to-date.
Bourke Oockran demonstrates that bis
voice Is all right, even if be baa not
succeeded In getting his opinions on
straight
Lent ends today In Russia. Having
fasted the required forty days, General
Kouropatkln may now proceed to get
bis fill of Japanese.
Whenever congress Is ready to sus
pend publication of the Congressional
Record the people will try to bow grace
k fully to the Inevitable.
European scandal mongers will ex
perience a sad, almost Irretrievable, be
reavement In the death of former
Queen Isabella of Spain.
, Nearly every city In the country has a
Civic Improvement league under one
name or another. Here la where com
petition Is a good thing.
Ill-health may be u blessing In dis
guise for Joseph Chamberlain, for he
may be compelled to take no pnrt In a
fight where he has no hope for success.
: If Mr. Harriman and Mr. Hill have a
really genuine falling out the public may
get to learn the inside facta of the great
merger scheme which met a premature
death. ,
rrincess HaUfeldt may bave regis
tered as "Mrs. Roberts" at London, not
because she likes to travel "Incog," but
because she can no longer pay $1,000
for a dress.
If Viceroy Alexleff succeeds In keep
ing the Russian soldiers from liquor
during the present campaign he will
have demonstrated a power which will
be cause for envy by General Miles,
The aeronautical congress in connec
tion with the St Louis exposition will
not be held until October. It would
hardly be safe to pull off a hot air fest
until after the midsummer beat sub
Bided. If Judge Tarter ever had any Idea that
Colonel Bryan might finally rally to bla
support the avowal of friendship for
btiu by Mr. Cleveland should put that
Idea out of his head. Bryan and Cleve
land will not ride in the same band
.wagon.
., It Is to be hoped that Norton F. Plant
Will have better luck In Europe, where
he goes after the Cape May and Em
peror's cup, that Sir Thomas Upton has
bud In trying for th America's cup.
Charlie Barr will' si sailing In atrauge
waters.
Evidence In ths Grand Rapids boodle
cases Implicated two more Michigan
legislators said to have received, one of
them $00, and the other $350. The
scandal here la that there should be
such a wide difference In the price of
lawmakers.
Immigration CointnisHlouer Sargent
Joins the popular cry about "the un
desirable class of immigrants from
southern Europe,'' but he falls to point
out how he would apply the strainer to
keep out. the iudlgestlble and let In the
desirable European.
In the attack by the Germans upon
American art the Americans cannot be
deuied the right to quote the opinion of
Emperor William as to one school of
Teutonic art while the crown prince's
opinion ss to the other school will give
thtsa, mat eaUeiactioa. -
t.TIT Jiff. BVMMKRS.
Williamson 8. Summers has been
Miinnmrilr relieved from duty as United
States attorney for the district of Ne
braska. The popular Impression that
Summers was removed by the president
because of offensive activity in procur
ing the Indictment of Senator Dietrich
Is unfounded. Summers tins not been
removed, but lins served fifteen months
beyond his full tt nn of four yenrs. He
wor.lrt hnvc been removed in disgrace
two ypnrs nsro hud the Nebraska sen
ators been able to agree upon a suc
cessor. Williamson 8. Summers should never
have been appointed United States dis
trict attorney in the first instance. He
win one of a score of disreputables
foisted upon the federal service during
the Thurston regime. He hnd estab
lished an unenviable reputation as a
chronic deadbeat in Beatrice and Lin
coln lefore he was commissioned United
States attorney, and had been notori
ously affiliated with the gang of state
officers Impeached by the legislature In
180.1, even before he became the inti
mate companion and counsellor of the
state treasury embezzler, Joseph 8.
Bartley.
As prosecuting attorney Summers had
a sympathetic ear for crooks and skill
fully played into the hands of combines
that were organized to plunder and rob
the government while pretending to
carry out instructions of the Depart
ment of Justice In the enforcement of
public land laws and tho prosecution of
speculators Implicated In land purchase
frauds. He made the grand Jury In
quisitions into these violations of law
a mere farce. In his seal to prevent
the indictment of the Thurston county
land lease ring, that had fleeced the
Winnebago Indians, he used the machin
ery of the court to persecute the men
who had exposed the fraud.
His performances Immediately prior to
and after the Indictment of Senator Die
trich were a mere masquerade gotten
up adroitly for diverting attention from
himself and cleverly designed to extend
his term Indefinitely.
A most consummate hypocrite, he has
posed as the fearless public prosecutor
and advocate of civic virtue while he
was linked with embezzlers and cheek
by Jowl with, rogues. By systematlo
deception and Imposture he has habit
ually played upon popular sympathy and
personal credulity. Those who have
learned to know him . most Intimately,
however, bave been amazed that a man
of his stamp could so long retain any
degree of popular respect In a com
munity where his devious and serpen
tine ways have become fairly known.
The Department of Justice Is to be
congratulated that It has at last gotten
rid of an officer who was lacking In
every element of morality and integrity.
COST l)F HA RBUR IMPROVEMENT.
It Is stated that there are now before
the committee on rivers and harbors of
the house of representatives approved
projects for river and harbor improve
ments calling for the enormous appropri
ation of $500,000,000. The force of army
engineers is large enough to superintend
the expenditure of only about $20,000
000 a year on river and harbor work
and the committee has placed that limit
on appropriations for a single year. At
that rate It would take the engineers
about twenty-five years to carry, out
projects that ' bave already been for
mally approved, not taking into con
sideration any new work whatever. In
addition to the $500,000,000 worth of
projects the committee has thla year
been called on to authorize new enter
prises Involving a very large expendi
ture. The chairman of the rivers and har
bors committee is Representative Burton
of Ohio. He la said to be of the opinion
that the time baa about arrived when
the goverrirnent must insist on local
authorities sharing the expense of cer
tain projects for improving channels and
streams. He says the proposition of
dredging waterways at public expense
has assumed such gigantic proportions
that a pause must be made to consider
a change In the old system. Mr. Burton
thinks if It Is to be continued the gov
ernment must call on the state, county
or city authorities, or upon persons or
corporations whose property Is to be
benefited by water improvements, to
bear a part of the burden of expense.
I While this la not an unreasonable Idea,
It la most Improbable that the change
from the old system suggested will meet
with general approval. Improvement of
rivers and harbors by the national gov
ernment Is one of Its particular func
tions and It la safe to say that the
people of no state in which such Im
provement is called for would endorse
the Burton' proposition. The general
government will for a long time to come
be looked to to provide the money for
river and harbor Improvements and the
best that can be hoped for Is that the
committees of congress whose duty it
Is to make provision for this work win
exercise all possible care to avoid ex
travagance and waste.
CAN ADA s UROtriMO POPULATION.
The population of Canada la being
rapidly increased by immigration, which
the government has for some time been
encouraging by the offer of liberal In
ducements. Last month 4,000 immi
grants entered the Dominion by way of
the port of Halifax alone, an equal or
greater number undoubtedly entering at
other porta. This Is of course very
small In comparison with the immigra
tion to the United States, yet if main
tained It promises most important re
sults in Canadian development, for the
majority of these newcomers are homo
seekers, who will go to the northwest
provinces and settle In the great wheat
region, where tbey can secure land at
a very moderate cost
It Is stated that In gaining new cltl-
sena Canada la now leading the world
not In quantity, but In quality. During
the past year there were 32,682 home
stead entries, which "Included 8.021,230
acres; the iHnd grant railroads and the
Hudson Bny compony sold to settlers
4,229.011 acres more, while in 1SIM the
homestead entries were, all told, less
than 2.0(10. Nearly 60,000 of the 12S.
0(10 immigrants who entered the Do
minion last year were well-to-do Amer
ican farmers, who went to seek their
fortunes anew In the wheat region of
the Canadian northwest,-over 41,000, or
nearly one-third of the total, were of a
similar class from the British Isles,
while the 37,000 from continental
Europe were homeseekers and settlers
far above the average of the immigrants
who came to this country.
It is highly probable that the Do
minion will hereafter attract an Increas
ing number of Immigrants from year to
year, very largely of the class of people
who have entered that country within
the past year or two. There are op
portunities In Canada for- the Indus
trious and thrifty and the government
is making every effort to induce such
to come to the country. It seems a
safe prediction that within the next
twenty years the population of the Do
minion will be nearly If not quite double
what it is at present. Our northern
neighbor is prospering and progressing
and Is every year becoming a better
customer of the United States, In spite
of the fact that her tariff makes a con
siderable discrimination in favor of
British manufactures. How much
longer she will continue to be so good
a customer Is an Interesting question.
MUNICIPAL OWNCHSIUP SENTIMENT.
The most significant feature of the
municipal election In Chicago last week
was the overwhelming .majorities given
to the propositions bearing on municipal
ownership submitted on what was
known as the "little ballot." The Muel
ler law authorizing the city to acquire
the street railway properties was rati
fied by a vote of more than four to one,
and the declaration Jn favor of the im
mediate action under the law approved
by a vote of nearly three to one.
The Chicago papers bave been bpsy
trying to explain bow this demonstra
tion In favor of municipal ownership
was brought about ftnd to read into the
vote on the several propositions differ
ent Interpretations that would modify
the force of the demand thus voiced for
fear It may aerve to strengthen the so
cialistic propaganda. What has hap
pened In Chicago, however, Is probably
no different except possibly in degree
from what would happen in almost any
other large city In which the same ques
tions were submitted to popular vote
under the same conditions.
The only explanation of the Increasing'
sentiment for municipal ownership of
public utility concerns In our various
cities is as an upheaval against corrupt
interference by the public service cor
porations with the management of mu
nicipal affairs. It is an evidence of the
growing conviction that in no other way
can these corporations be put out of
politics than by a point blank refusal of
the city to grant further franchise privi
leges. ' " '
The fraction situation In Chicago has
long offered a most flagrant example of
pernicious intrusion of corporation cor
ruptlonlsts into' all branches of local
government. The street railways there
have not only failed to give the charac
ter of service which the people have a
right to expect but their representatives
have ridden rough shod over every at
tempt at reasonable regulation. They
have not only manipulated city councils,
and controlled legislatures by question
able means, but have been caught fixing
Juries and tampering with the courts.
It is no wonder that the revolt Is pro
nounced and that the people look to
municipal ownership as the only avail
able solution of ft pressing problem.
While street railway abuses in Chi
cago bave been Intolerable, their coun
terparts are to be found In almost every
American city In which rapacious fran
chlsed corporations are constantly over
stepping the bounds of decency. It is
to be hoped the object lesson presented
by Chicago will not be- entirely lost on
the public utility corporations In other
cities, which in the knowledge of having
a tsood thing should take beed not to
invite popular revolt unnecessarily.
4 BRIUMH FAILURE.
That the British government has thus
far utterly failed to carry out the prom
ises made regarding the development
of the Transvaal Is a matter of common
knowledge and there seems to be no
prospect of Improvement in the colonies
wrested from the Boers. Immediately
following the termination of the war
there was an Influx of people to the
Transvaal country and a good deal of
speculative activity, but the inevitable
reaction has taken place and in this
portion of South Africa there la reported
to be great depression and Increasing
dtatrcs. The great boom which was to
follow British occupation has not ma
terialized and retrenchment Is the order
of the day. So far as the Dutch popu
lation Is concerned, It is said to be
behaving In the most exemplary way.
The conquered people are simply mind
ing their own business, building up their
ruined homes and cultivating their lands
as well aa their crippled circumstances
will admit.
The colonial government proposes to
Import coolie labor to do work in the
mines and this Is not likely to prove so
beneficial to the country as its advocates
profess to believe. The ordinance
adopted by the Transvaal legislative
council Is a measure providing for the
Introduction of voluntary slavery Into
the colony, one of Its conditions being
that the transfer of an imported con
tract laborer shall be made from em
ployer to another without the laborer's
consent This, however, the British
colonial secretary refused to approve
and certainly Parliament would not
have acquleeced in the labor Importa
tion program with this condition re
tained. Unquestionably British rule In the
Transvaal has up to this time been ft
most lamentable failure and nothing of
a really practlcnl nature Is being done to
remedy the unfortunate conditions which
prevail. Nearly half of the $15,000,000
appropriated for distribution as com
pensation to the P.oers for their losses
In war has been M asted In expenses, the
officials using the money freely for their
personal enjoyment. Perhaps ft better
state of affairs will come In the not dis
tant future, but Just now Great Britain's
new Smith African colonies are In a
condition projierly described as deplorable.
IXFURMATllifi FUR IMMIGRANTS.
The bill in the United States senate
making provision for furnishing Immi
grants with information that will old
them in determining where they shall
locate is a judicious measure and should
It become law It Is riot to be doubted
that much good would result from It.
A very large majority of the people who
come here from abroad are of course
totally Ignorant of the country and have
no definite Idea as to where they will
settle or what opportunities they will
find for earning a livelihood. The ques
tion of the distribution of these people
is a most Important one. At present a
very large proportion of them go to the
large cities, where they naturally expect
to find tho chances of employment best
The consequence is that thousands are
annually added to the congested urban
populations and the number of the In
digent is steadily increased.
Were the immigrants on their arriral
put In "possession of such information as
the bill reported by the senate commit
tee on Immigration contemplates, show
ing where there are opportunities to ob
tain work throughout the country and
other facts of interest to newcomers,
undoubtedly very many who under pres
ent circumstances settle in the cities
would go elsewhere and thus a most de
sirable distribution of Immigrants Would
be had. There ought to be no opposi
tion to the senate bill and its early pas
sage should be assured.
The municipal election at Chicago last
Tuesday developed a unique and novel
electioneering medium. Teter Relnberg
was elected alderman to represent the
Twenty-sixth word in the Chicago city
council by a plurality of nearly 2,800
votes. Reinberg's campaign was fought
and won by a bombardment of flowers.
From the beginning to the close of the
struggle which resulted in such a pro
nounced personal triumph at the polls
Peter kept up a shower of bouquets
roses, carnations and bunches of pinks
which were lavishly distributed among
the voters of the ward. Last Sunday
Peter sent Easter flowers to the twenty
nine churches within the wurd and
twenty-nine congregations were pleased
with his attentions and pleased with his
intentions to. represent them In the mu
nicipal legislature. Asa lover of flowers
and believer in a campaign beautiful he
was evidently not only a nice man, but
the man of the hour at least he so
Impressed the taste and culture of his
constituents, who, regardless of previous
party affiliations, cast their votes for
him.
Chicago truant officers have made a
report to the effect that gambling of
various kinds prevails among school
children to an alarming extent pro
moted by slot machines, dice, etc., fur
nished In nearby drug stores, candy
shops and fruit stores and they charge
much truancy up to the temptation of
this sort of dissipation. We, should
think that a vigorous application of the
old birch rod remedy would be -the
proper antidote.
Predictions are being made already
that the republican national convention
will not extend over more than two
days. That Is not what Chicago bar
gained for. A two-day meeting is
hardly worth fighting for, to say nothing
of putting up the guaranty fund to de
fray all the convention expenses. If
there is any way of prolonging the ses
sion we may be sure Chicago will be
resourceful.
The rumor that Willie Hearst Is ready
to sell his following In the St Louis
convention to Judge Parker for the
promise of a seat In the cabinet of
President Parker is manifestly a cam
paign roorbach. In the first place the
promise could not be cashed and in the
next place Willie would be paying too
much for the whistle even If such a
deal were consummated.
I mm
The conclusions reached by the Ger
man Meteorological society of Berlin,
that forests exercise no perceptible In
fluence upon climate, should not deter
Americans, and especially Nebraskans,
from properly celebrating Arbor day by
tree planting. Whether trees draw
moisture from the skies or not they are
a beauty and a joy forever.
The time of the democratic leaders In
congress will be occupied from now
until adjournment in making campaign
literature. The republican majority is
so large that obstruction will seldom be
effective, so they must be content with
posing as prophets of evil, a role In
which they have never shown' marked
success.
Events leading up to sn outbreak In
the Balkaua are progressing rapidly.
Turkey and Bulgaria have signed a con
vention to permit no revolutions. When
this news reaches the "loyal" Albanians
there will be a revolution at one end
of the country or the other.
Officially estimated population of the
United States proper is 79,000,380,
or 3.0O5.814 more than the 1900 census
figures. The 1910 census will surely
show upward of 85.000,000 people living
In the United States, exclusive of In
sular possessions.
Nebraska Is to bave forty-eight dele
gates In the populist national convention
under the call summoning ft meeting at
Bprlagfleld, ' IIL, Jul 4, to nominate ft
presidential ticket a dozen more than
the state's representation In republican
and democratic conventions combined.
With this advantage In their favor Ne
braska populists will not be living up
to their reputation If they do not In
cubate a favorite son boom for the vice
presidency, If not for the presidential
place on their ticket
Some tin for Bad Roads,
Baltimore American.
At last a use, has been found for bad
roads. The terrlflo highways of Corea are
proving more effective than an army corps
in protecting the Russians from'the Japa
nese. Bad roads have defended many a
community or state against attacks of
progress and prosperity.
Blots on (lillliatlon's Shield.
Philadelphia Record.
Almost contemporaneously with the
slaughter of 600 Thibetans by the English at
Guru 641 Achlnese wero massacred by the
Dutch soldiers In Sumatra, Thus does civ
ilization vaunt Itself at the opening of the
twentieth century. The methods of argu
ment by which the Christian nations under
take to convince the heathen whose lands
they covet are as old as the Invention of
gunpowder.
A Safe Prediction,
Chicago Tribune.
Ths Japanese occupy Corea. But that
does not signify that the Japanese will con
tinue in possession of it after .the treaty of
peace is signed. If the Russians can shat
ter the mikado's forces in Manchuria they
may be able to compel his men to retrace
the steps of thlr wonderful march. But
one thing Is sure that the Japanese re
treat through Corea would be a far bloodier
affair for both sides than was the Japanese
advance.
Thus Rons the Tale.
Pittsburg Despatch.
Many years ago Charles Sumner sent to
the csar some acorns from an oak which
overhangs Washington's tomb. A stately
tree grew from one planted near the im
perial palace. Now Secretary Hitchcock
will plant in the White House grounds a
sapling from this oak In St. Petersburg.
Isn't this a breach of neutrality, or does
it show that free acorns can germinate in
autocratic soli?
Test of oil ne Fuel.
Philadelphia Press.
The steamship Nebraskan, which made
the run from San Diego, CaJ., to New York
by the use of oil as fuel, whereas it made
the trip to Ban Diego by the use of coal,
furnishes an Illustration of what may bo
accomplished by the change. According to
the captain of the vessel about 130,000 was
saved by the use of oil. A part of this was
gained by an Increase of 457 tons In cargo
space. There was a saving of nine firemen
in the crew. The trip was made In shorter
time with oil than with coal. If oil remains
plentiful at existing prices Its use may be
come general by steamships.
Abuse of PrlTllea-e.
Detroit Free Press.
The recent action of the house In expung
ing from the Congressional Record an at
tack made upon one of Its members by an
other of the body under the extension of
leave to print calls attention to the gross
misuse to which that privilege is frequently
put and the necessity of restricting the
practice. Originally Intended to expedite
matters and rive members an opportunity
to Insert In the record, where they could be
read later and digested, statistics and other
matters appertaining to the toplo under
discussion, the rule has been distorted and
the privilege abused by unscrupulous per
sons until it has reached a bolnt that occa
sionally becomes unbearable, '
Prose Poem on Spring.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Now flow the fountains of the hills, and
over the venerable rocks the torrents pour,
bearing down the surplus of the snow,
which yet in such a season sinks largely
below to feed the earth of the summer that
la to come. The buds are starting on the
earliest trees ths buds that for a month
have shown the pulse of life and the
streams of sap are busy In other than
maples, which now on the hills are fur
nishing those life currents which mako the
maple sirup and sugar; and yet go on to
All the great trees themselves, and so give
of themselves, ot their, very lives, some
thing to nourish and please the ungrateful
race of man. It is a season of Infinite
charm and glory that Is opening let us
taste of Its confluent pleasures, and delight
In its promise, and be good.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
The early bud catches ths blistering
frost ,
Amiable and gentle April Is altogether
too gay for Us reputation.
Diamonds, according to a London dis
patch, are Increasing In price. This la a
good time for newspaper men to unload.
General Kouropatkln Is said to bave a
gorgeoua uniform In his suit case. The
Japs are disposed to give him a new base
to fit it on.
Cigars and tobacco valued at $300,000
were cremated at West Tampa last week.
Another Instance of the unchangeable de
crees of fate.
Advance agents of Medicine Hat and Cal
garry are needlessly Impressive In demon
strating that winter's backbone oould
stand a few more blows.
Let history be made right at any oost
John D. Sullivan declares that it was his
whipping of an Englishman that gave
America Its flrst boost as a world power.
Kansas cannot fairly claim a monopoly
of human wonders. A"all River, Mass.,
policeman, after fourteen years of service,
resigned' because he regards It wrong to
work on Sundays.
The festive pass does not say much, but
It gets there 'Just the same. "How oould I
vote for that measure with my pockets
full of passes," exclaimed a candid Chicago
alderman as he registered a loud "No" on
the antl-pasa ordinance.
A Philadelphia belle who was caught in
the street and hugged by a negro said
after her escape she supposed at first
that one of her friends was trying to sur
prise her. Is that the way the friends of
Philadelphia belles usually surprise them
In the streets?
An eastern banker, who had business
dealings with the dethroned cotton king,
testified that he loaned Sully $700,000 the
first time he saw him. The wonder Is
that "the talent" should waste time and
energy in cracking safes and things while
bankers are so dead easy.
The other day In Brooklyn, after the pas
tor had delivered the customary pathetlo
eulogy and turned the services to the un
dertaker, the latter posted himself at the
head of the coffin and In tear-eompelling
tones called out "Now the friends will
please step forward and say 'good-afternoon'
to the corpse.'
If Admiral Togo succeeds In bottling up
Port Arthur he will have earned the right
to dine on strawberries three times a day.
No greater reward oould heroism wave for.
The attempt of a Kansas City man, dur
ing a fight to bite a pleoe off the cheek of
a Kansas City woman cost him several
sound teeth and $10 and trimmings In court.
Some people cannot appreciate a hard
prvfiwsUlOB until they i siiuwo.
SERMOS9 BOILED DtV
Regret cannot uproot wrong.
Labor Is the salt of our lives,
Doubts mako a poor refuge from duty.
It takes more than a fence to make a
garden.
A shallow man usually has his soul In
Ms skin.
Present character la a prophecy of future
condition.
Man s noblest right Is that of giving up
his rights.
Rrst Is religion's opportunity for reln
vlgcratlon. There Is no clear thinking apart from
clean living.
Respectability may be quite different from
righteousness.
He who loses no love for others loses all
life for himself.
Nothing blinds the soul quicker than
winking at sin.
Platitudes against sin are ss harmful as
applause for sin.
In the divine scales a dime often weighs
more than a dollar.
The worst blasphemy Is that of profes
sion without practice.
God cannot blot out our past, but he can
prevent Its blight on the future. Chlcngo
Tribune.
EXIXAFI SHOTS AT THB TtXPIT.
Baltimore American: A minister In New
York opposed to -the remarrlsge of divorced
persons has changed his list of questions
to parties applying to be married, so that
now a woman cannot evade the main point
by saying her husband Is dead, with the
mental reservation that he Is dead to her.
This minister will Insist on dead husbands
being decently burled before their widows
seek the altar again, and will allow pros
pective brides with former spouses only
an underground route to happiness.
Philadelphia Press: An Easter offering
of 9n.0OO. the amount collected at Grace
Protestant Episcopal church In Rrooklyn.
does not look much like hard times. The
rector has asked for fciO.COO to apply on
th4 endowment fiin1 nf tt. .v,,-v, -a v.
J was delighted to receive JTO.OOO more than
he expected. This church Is located In
a part of Brooklyn where residences are
pivlng place to business hryjges, ftnd the
plan Is to raise a sufficient endowment to
keep the church golnflr when the rich mem
bers have removed to some other part of
the city. As $128,000 has already been
raised the plan will evidently succeed.
Chicago Chronicle: At Jersey City a
young man recently committed suicide be
cause a Protestant minister refused to
perform the marriage ceremony which
would have united him with a divorced
woman. The alternative was civil mar
riage, to which the young man would not
concent. He was a devout Christian, who
regarded marriage as a sacred Institution,
a spiritual union which could not be under
taken upon a civil contract. The attitude
of his church not only forbade him from
entering upon the married state with the
woman he loved, but the refusal of the
minister to perform the rites carried with
It on Implied rebuke which his highly sen
sitive nature could not withstand, and he
found escape from an Intolerable position
by taking his own life. This. It may be
repeated, was an extreme case, but It
serves as well as an ordinary Instance to
Illustrate the Influence of the church upon
the divorce evil, which, unfortunately, Is
not always exerted. It Is a common charge
from Infidels and scoffers that the power
of the church Is waning. If there Is an
apparent lack of ecclesiastical power, es
pecially In relation to moral rather than
religious questions, Is It not possible that
the Impression Is due to a failure on the
part of the church to exercise Us powers
In this respect T
Persistency tha.t is what wins -you
wrote my first policy. Now fifteen
years after you settle. Not here to
day and (one tomorrow.
"I am heartily satisfied." "My large holdings
affords me a feeling of real security."
Read this letter from a most successful banker and jner
chant he is a f riend of " The Strongest in the World1
A U BRANDBIS. rrast.
H. H. BRANDBIS, VlM-Prrst.
A. n.
K.
Omaha, Nob., April 7, 1804.
EL H. Neely, Manager,
Omaha, Nebraska.
- Dear Blr: Am just In receipt of your letter stating
options on one ot my largo policies. I sleet to accept
the cash option, and in doing so wish to tell 70a that
I am heartily satisfied.
filnce you wrote this, $ny flrst policy of life assur
ance, It haa been my pleasure to have you write me sev
eral other policies in the Kqultablo Life Assurance
Society of the United States, and I believe today I
am one of your largest policy-holders In Omaha.
My large holdings in this great corporation with Its
mountain of surplus affords me a fooling of real se
curity. Your truly, ART 11 UK D. BItANDEIS,
THE STRONURST IN THE WORLD"
THE EQUITABLE LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY
OF THE UNITED 5TATES
HENRY B. HYDE, Founder
120 BROADWAY. NEW YORK.
JAMES W. ALEXANDER, Pre. JAMBS H, HYDE, Vlco Prss-
II. D. NEELY, Mr. for Nebraska.
Msrchanta National Bank Building.
Wa HENRY BROWN, Cashier.
& R. ELSON sad E. 5. STREETER, Oeaeral Agts,, Omaha,
tt H. LOUOHRIDOB. Osnoral Agt., Uncol n.
JOB KLEIN, Ooneral Agt., FUttsmoutb, Neb.
ED B. JONES. Ooneral Agt., Hastings, Nob.
d R. HOOVER, Ooneral Agt, Wayne, Neb.
DOMESTIC PI.RASAJITRIE9.
"If your wife treats you so shamefully."
said Henperk's fri ml, "why don't you get
a divorce from her7"
"I did want to." replied Henpeck, "but
she said 'no,' and of course that settled
It." Philadelphia Press.
"Put why did the bride s mother weep"
"Oh, when It was too late, she discovered
that she had overlooked a chance to ret
an English son-in-law with a llttl better
title at approximately the same piiec."--Chicngo
Record-Herald.
Miss Vane (tome one told me today that
I whs the hitmlnonu-st girl In our street.
Miss Spelts O! that's not Incurable.
Miss vane What do you meanT
Miss Spelts Your habit ot talking to
yourself. Philadelphia Cathoilo Standard.
"Of course, the more children a couple
have the larger their doctor bill becomes."
"Not at all. The more children tliey
have the less likely the parents are to be
come alarmed at every little thing." Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
"She Is very nice," observed the flrst
guest at the Florida hotel, "bue very
ostentatious." 1 ...
"I hadn't noticed it." said the second
'"'Veil, she Is," continued the flrst guest.
"T notice that she Is registered at the
office as 'Mrs. OoWrocka and eook. "-Cincinnati
Star.
Mr. Roxley Ridiculous, sir! Before you
think of marrying my daughter you
should be making at least t&.Ouo a yenr.
Mr. Nervey Well. If you can mako a po.
sltlon for me In your office at that sal
ary I'll take It Philadelphia Press.
SOLOMON AND THE ANT.
Sir Edwin Arnold.
day Ar-Raheen! call him "Compassionate,"
For He Is pitiful to small and great.
'Tia written that the serving annuls sisml
Beside Uod's throne, ten myriads on each
hand.
Waiting, with wings outstretohed and
watchful eyes,
To do their Master's heavenly embassies.
Quicker thun thought His high commstwui
they read,
Swifter than light to execute them speed;
bearing the wurd of power from star to
star.
Some hither and some thither, near and
fur.
And unto these naught Is too high or low.
Too mean or mighty, If He wills It so)
Neither is any creature, great or small,
Heyond His pity, which embraceth all,
Because His eye beholdeth all which are.
Sees without search and counteth without
care.
Nor lies the babe nearer the nsrelng plire
Than Allah's smallest child to Allah s
grace ;
Nor any ocean rolls So vast that He
Forgets one wave of all that restless aea.
Thus it is written and moreover told
How Gabriel, watching by the gates ot
Gold.
Heard from the Voice Ineffable this TPSrd
Of two-fold mandate uttered by the Lard:
"Go earthward! pass where Solomon aeMh
made
His pleasure house, and sltteth there ar
rayed. Goodly and splendid whom I crowned the
king.
For at this hour my servant doth a tiling
VnrltHng: out of Nislbls there came
A thousand steeds with nostrils all aflame
And limbs of swiftness, prises of the fight;
I.o! these are led, for Solomon's delight.
Before the palace, where he gasetli now,
Filling his heart with the pride at that
brave show;
So taken with the snorting and the tramp
Of his war horses, that Our stiver is nip
Of eve Is swung in vain. Our warning 8uu
Will sink before his sunset prayer's begun;
So shull the people say, ''The king, our
Lord,
Loves more the long-mail ed trophies of
his sword
Than the remembrance of his God!" Go In!
Save thou my faithful servant from such
sin.
"Also, upon the slope of Arafat.
Beneath a lote tree which is fallen flat,
Toileth a yellow ant who carrleth home
Food for her nest but so tar hath she
come
Her worn feet fall, and she will perish,
caught
In the falling rain; but thou, make the
way naught,
And help her to her people In the cleft
Of the black rock."
Silently Gabriel left
The Presence, and prevented the king's sin,
And holp the little ant at entering In,
O Thou whose love Is wide and great.
We praise Thee, "The Compassionate."
BRANIIEIS. SM'r.
BRANDEIS. Trraa.