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Notary Public.
The work of the press censor in Man
churia seems to begin where the work
of the army ends.
: Colonel Bryan, pretends he has to
chooHe between Roosevelt nnd Tarker.
There is Tom Watson.
How are the union veterans of Ne
braska going to vote November 8? That
question is not a poser to the union vet
erans. They will vote as they shot
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It is now reported from Mukden that
Oyama's counter movement has been
Checked, but tha correspondents may
possibly have gotten the checks mixed.
Molders of public opinion in all lan
guages can earn $50 a week from now
until November 8 by applying to tha
president of the electric light company.
An earthquake is reported from St.
Louis.-' There is nothing those St. Lords
people would not do to make the Fili
pinos feel as much at home as possible.
Recent advices from Rome would in
dicate that the clerical party is to be
one of a fusion deal, where the fusion is
to be so complete as to be almost a
merger. ... . ,
That trouble on the isthmus was prob
ably caused by Bouie fellow who cannot
get over the revolutionary habit in tbo
short time Panama bus been free from
Colombia,
Omaha's bank clearings for the last
week exceeded those of Milwaukee and
St. Paul, each by more than $1,000,000,
nnd those of Buffalo by nearly $2,000,000.
Not bad showing. ,
8t Petersburg announces that It ex
pects Port Arthur to hold out until Feb
ruary, which probably means that no
one Intends to urge Kouropatkln again to
action in Manchuria.
Judge Parker starts out as If he in
tended to make a number of speeches
before election, day. After that tlmo
few will have any interest in what he
ays, and at the present time the inter
est is mainly accidental.
While the Russians and the Japanese
re struggling in the quagmires of Man
churia, the American people are getting
ready for the great buttle of the ballots,
Which has been ordained to rage from
sunrise to sundown on Tuesday, Novem
ber 8, rain or shine.
Already democratic speakers are be
' ginning to count Senator' Hoar as one of
the meu to be followed, since he is dead.
They quote with approval much thut he
said, but republicans continue to vote as
be voted, and voting Is the reul test of
a man's political convictions.
From now until after election there
will be 'a-marked Improvement In the
normal power of the electric street lamps
to impress upon the people of Omaha
that the coiupuny can furnish 1,200
caudle power are lights as well as 300
candle power lights wheu It Is so dis
used. Students in Livonia have been per
mitted to wear distinctive liats, a privi
lege . for . years denied thenu If
this tendency to liberality coutinues the
Russian student may in time reach that
high state of cIviMzutlon where he can
indulge in hiulug and play rowdy foot
ball, all in the interest of "true sport"
ud college loyalty. ' .
The Iowa supreme court has decided
that Interurban electric lines entering
cities do not come under the law regu
lating railroads, but rather under thoxe
provided for the regulation of street
railways. If this rule holds good lu
Nvbruska several promoters will have to
deal with the local authorities, should
prvst-ut plans prove successful. . . ,
LET THERE tE LIGHT.
The electric lighting monopoly which
supplies Omaha with normal candle
power arc lights is trying to diffuse a
great deal of darkness In its effort to
defeat the proposition for the establish
ment of a municipal public lighting
plant Every argument so far advanced
by Its subsidized newspapers, pnld lobby
ists and beneficiaries is grounded upon
the presumptive ignorance of the people
of Omaha.
We are told, for example, that the pur
chase and acquisition of t hi water works
will be defeated and indefinitely post
poned if the electric light bonds are
voted by reason of the elapse in the
charter that limits the Indebtedness of
Omaha to $2,500,000. Tills is a down
right piece of imposture.
The establishment of a municipal
lighting plant costing half a million dol
lars, or less, will have no more effect
upon the acquisition of the water works
I plant than has the establishment of a
municipal paving plant for which the
council has set apart $10,000 already,
and which may in the long run Involve
an outlay of $25,000. There is nothing
whatever In the charter that will hinder
the city from the purchase of the water
works whether the cost shall be $3,000,
000, $0,000,000, or even $10,000,000. The
charter expressly provides that bonds
Issued for the purchase of water works,
electric lights, parks and city buildings
shall not be included within the limita
tion fixed for its bonded indebtedness.
Equally deceptive is the assertion that
the proposition placed before the people
of Omaha for the purchase of an electric
light plant is simply a scheme designed
for political ends and not for the promo
tion of the public welfare. Everybody
In Omaha knows that the electric bond
ordinance was passed in response to a
popular demand that exacted from all
candidates at the last city election the
pledge that such a proposition should be
submitted to the people of Omaha.
As a counter Inducement for the de
feat of the proposition for municipal
ownership the electric light company
filed a proposition with the city council
which is represented as the lowest price
for electric arc lights in the world. The
price offered was $75 per arc lamp of
normal candle power, which means any
candle power the company may see fit
to generate, when cities that own public
lighting plants are being supplied at
from $50 to $00 per year for arc lights of
from 1,200 to 1,500 candle power. If the
new contract proposed for municipal
lighting is really the lowest price in the
world, why has Omaha been. compelled
for many years to pay double the price
at which it is now offered? Is it to
ward off the menace of municipal owner
ship? The genesis of electric lighting in
Omaha may be summed up as follows:
In the beginning, some fifteen years ago,
about 100 electric arc lights were hung
about the city by a local company of
moderate capital. . Then came a contract
by the city of Omaha with the New
Thomson-Houston Electric Light com
pany for not less than 200' "arc Mights of
2,000 candle power at $114.50 per lamp
per annum, for a period of five years.
On February 28, 1002. when this con
tract still had a year and a month to
run, the manager of the electric light
company railroaded a new contract
through the council by which the city
bound Itself to use not less than 300
lamps of "normal candle power" at
$04.50 per lamp per annum for a period
of Ave years. At the time this extension
was made the contract still had one
year to run. Under that contract, which
will remain in force until January 1.
1906, the number of lamps had increased
by January 1, 1003. to 446; by February
1, 1904, to 501, and. by October t, 1904,
to 526. The cost of 520 lamps at $94.50
a-ggregates $49,707 a year, while the'
same number of standard arc lights, each
equal to three or four lamps of the
Omaha style, only cost the city of De
troit $31,560, computed on the basis of
the cost of production, interest on the
investment, weur and tear and deprecia
tion of the plant
Tbo most absurd argument advanced
by the opponents of the municipal light
proposition Is that embodied In the re
port of the committee of the Real Estate
exchange, which oraong other trivial ob
jections points to the fact that the evo
lution of electrical machinery Is still In
progress and, therefore, the city would
assume the great risk of purchasing ma
chinery that might in a few years be
succeeded by improved machinery. This
is certainly an argument as is an argu
ment IMPORTING WHEAT.
Northwestern . millers are said to be
Importing wheat from Manitoba, the
duty on which is 25,. cents per bushel.
A rebate of duty can be obtained when
the flour made from this wheat is ex
ported, but' the arrangements under
which a rebate may . be obtained are
stated to be very unsatisfactory, and
the millers are joining In an endeavor
to have the drawback law amended in
a manner which would bring into op
eration a more liberal system of refund
ing duties paid on Imported produce
used in the production of exported mer
chandise. One of the millers explains
that as the 'law stands now the margin
between the price of wheat and Hour is
so small thai the profit is .wiped out by
the trouble and expense of 'identifying
exports as part of the material on which
duty Is paid. The result is that not only
we our exports of flour decreasing, but
it S becoming necessary to thiuk of re
moving mills to Canada in order to es
cape the duty.
It is manifestly important that con
gress shall take such action In this mat
ter as will be in the interest of the mill
ing Industry of the country, which Is
one of great value. The millers are not
expecting a removal of the duty, which
would doutHlesa be opposed by our
wheat growers, but stniply want such a
modification of the drawback In w as
will enable them to obtain at less trmiblo
and eiiwnse the rebate on exports of
J flour made from Imported wheut The
THE OMAHA
matter is entirely practical in character
and involves the question whether the
milling industry shall be maintained and
enabled to grow, or shall be allowed to
decline and part of it go to Canada.
Representatives in congress from' the
northwest will doubtless be found fa
vorable to such amendment of the draw
back Itw as the millers deem necessary.
RESPONSIBILITY OF DIRECTORS
The comptroller of the currency, In
an address to on association of bankers,
lias pointed out the responsibility of
bank directors, taking occasion to show
that they are not always mindful of
their responsibility. He made the state
ment that no national bank whose offi
cers strictly obeyed the national bank
act ever failed, the practically universal
rule being that all failures are due to
excess loans to an Interest or group of
interests, generally owned or controlled
by the officers of the bank itself. Re
ferring to the provision of the bank act
defining the duty of directors, the
comptroller urged that the duty of a
bank director, if he would fulfill the ob
ligation Imposed by his oath and protect
the Interests of the shareholders for
whom he is a trustee, and the creditors,
to whom he Is under even greater moral
obligations, requires that he should know
positively that the nffuirs of the bank are
being properly managed. The bank act
requires that a director shall take an
oath to diligently and honestly adminis
ter the affairs of the association, and "no
man is fulfilling the obligations assumed
in this oath," said the comptroller, "who
accepts an election as director of a Irnnk
and then allows the officers to man.iee
all its affairs without really letting him
know what is going on in the bank at
all, as is too often the case.''
The closing words of the above con
stitute an arraignment which ought to
make 'an impression alike Upon the
shareholders and the creditors of banks
and lead them to inquire whether the
directors are faithfully fulfilling the ob
ligations and duties Imposed by the
bank act It is a rather serious state
ment which the comptroller made in re
gard to the failure of directors to prop
erly inform themselves respecting the
affairs of the banks and while it is not
to be assumed that this is generally the
case, it evidently exists to a considerable
extent or the comptroller would not
have felt called upon to speak of it as
he did. He did well In calling attention
to the matter and his statement ought to
have a salutary effect, though possibly It
will havf. none at all. Our national
bank system has been called the most
nearly perfect system ever created, but
evidently there are some defects in it
and these should be remedied. A loading
financial paper suggests that some way
must be found to increase the sense of
responsibility of directors, but how this
enn be done it is not easy to say. That
paper remarks that if the penalties at
tached to failure of the directors are
made too severe business men of finan
cial standing will be reluctant to enter
the boards of directors. On the other
hand, if these penalties are made too
lax, the result is a constant temptation
to Indifference and neglect.
BONDS OF TUB BELLIGERENTS.
It is stated that American holders of
Russian and Japanese securities are ap
prehensive that unless, there is early
intervention to put a stop to the war
the struggle will cause irreparable finan
cial losses to American interests. East
ern capitalists who hold government
bonds 6f the belligerents and who are
heavily interested in railroad and other
projects in the countries at war, are re
ported to have appealed to tho Washing
ton administration to use its good offices
to bring hostilities to on end. Tbey de
clare, according to a New York report,
that great damage will be caused in
that financial center unless the conflict
is terminated before next spring. The
value of Russian and Japanese securi
ties is gradually depreciating and the
owners thereof believe that their hold
ings will be wiped out if the war lasts
more than two years. Americans abroad
are especially apprehensive of the se
curities and their pleas portend finan
cial disaster to Americans who have as
sumed important responsibilities in Rus
sia and Japan.
It Is altogether probable that the hold
ers of the securities of the belligerents
are feeling somewhat anxious respecting
them, but It is not apparent why they
should expect any action on the part of
the ' government under existing condi
tions. When the war is over if either
Russia or Japan should attempt to btoUI
the payment of the bonds doubtless our
government would interest Itself in be
half of the American holders, but there
Is nothing to be done at jiresent and the
talk of Intervention is idle. We do not
know what amount of Russian and Jap
anese securities is held in this country,
but it is unlikely that the amount Is so
large that any serious consequences
would result if it should be entirely lost,
of which there Is of course very little if
any danger.
Undoubtedly European holders of the
securities of the belligerents are also
feeling somewhat, anxious, in view of the
probability that the war will continue
for at least another year, unless the
powers should agree upon Intervention.
What is plainly suggested Is that both
of the belligerents will find it very diffi
cult to dlnpose of any more of their
securities abroad while hostilities are in
progress. This is especially so as to
Japan, by reason off the fact that her
resources are vastly less than those of
Russia. Moreover, Japau has already
plHced a chnrjre on her customs revenues
and may speedily be forced to hypothe
cate her Internal revenues in advance of
their collection, while Russia, on the
other hand, has not as yet been obliged
to resort to any such means for keeping
her war fund ample.
It Is now said that the Prussian gov
ernment is co-opeiutljig with Russia to
scud buck emigrants striving to escape
conscription. The kaiser evidently sees
more danger to Germany in nullifying
DAILY UEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1904.
conscription laws than In increasing the
fighting power of his eastern neighbor.
PROMISE VF BUSINESS EXPANSION.
That was an exceedingly encouraging
address which was made a few days
ago by Mr. Vanderlip, formerly assistant
secretary of the treasury and now vice
president of one of the great banks of
New York. He said he believed the con
ditions are again favorable to a return o
prosperity and that so long as we hold
close to a proper conservatism the course
of financial events seems likely to fol
low only one general direction, and that
Is toward improvement, toward expand
ing business and toward better times.
"I am convinced that the possibilities
of another great business expansion are
nt hand," declared Mr. Vanderlip, and
It Is most natural to think that in this
he voiced the opinion of the financiers
with whom he Is-associated.
After pointing out the mistakes that
were made during the period of great
prosperity, which necessarily produced a
reaction from which the business of the
country is now recovering, Mr. Vander
lip noted the conditions that Justify his
optimistic view of the future. The
country lias vast accumulated wealth
and it is steadily Increasing. There is
an abundant supply of money which is
also being constantly added to. The
crops, if somewhat less than the highest
record, in the aggregate, are still ample
and will pay the producers better than
In former years. Railrond earnings are
now large nnd will grow, while there is
more industrial activity than for a year
or more. All this certainly points to n
resumption of prosperity which will per
haps be equal to the highest the country
has had. But bright as the promise is.
Mr. Vanderlip Judiciously counseled a
rational conservatism. "Encouragement
to a wild speculative boom at this time,"
he said, "might set the whole period of
recovery back a month, six months, a
year. A great speculative boom now Is
not what is needed. It Is indeed one of
the special dangers. If bankers in the
great centers are unconservatlve In the
inducements they hold out to secure de
posits and accumulate great stocks of
money which will loan nt such low rates
ns to encourage unduly a speculative
spirit, they will strike a blow at this
returning prosperity which may long de
lay its coming." There is reason to be
lieve that bankers generally at the great
centers hold the same view as Mr. Van
derlip. very few if any of thera being
disposed to adopt a policy that might
encourage reckless speculation.
Referring to the more confident feel
ing in financial and business circles, the
New York Commercial remarks that un
doubtedly what has contributed to it is
the growing prospects for the election of
President Roosevelt., With him again
Installed In the White House many of
the most Important business interests
would feel assured that there would be
no radical modification in the national
government's policies and that they
could safely proceed with new enter
prises and projects without danger that
the latter would be Jeopardized or upset
by hostile legislation? at the federal capi
tal. "The great majority of the Ameri
can people," says that paper, "appar
ently take the same view of the matter.
They see that the country is again on
the high road to prosperity and they con
perceive no reason why there should be
n change In the political complexion of
the national administration."
The latest well defined rumor in con
fidential circles is that the Civic federa
tion proposes to bring charges against
Chief of Police Donahue next week.
Why the Civic federation, which is pre
sumed to be a nonpartisan body, should
always wait until a few days before elec
tion with its dynamite cartridges will
always remain a mystery. At long
range it looks as if the demo-pop politi
cians inside of the federation want to
use the organization for partisan ends,
with civic reform as a matter of sec
ondary consideration.
There has been great apathy in the
present campaign, but the candidate Is
beginning to make bis rounds with ap
propriate cards and the windows of pa
triots are being dressed with portraits
of the favorites for congressional and
presidential honors, but he torchlight
procession and the mounted infantry In
50-cent uniforms and the plumed
knights in borrowed masquerade suits
ha vex deferred their processions until
1908.
In resolving that the sale of liquor
should be forever prohibited in any state
created from the Indian Territory
the Mohonk conference seems to be
putting up a new obstacle to statehood
bills. A lot of people In the southwest
clamoring for admission into the union
would rather live in a territory with
whisky than in a state without, whisky.
At last the Amerlcun has found a
point upon which be can hang much of
the history of the present war in the
Orleut His ideas of Vlfangow, Shak
hepu and even Venial may be more or
less confused, but Lone Tree Hill and
tho desperate fighting to capture that
position cdn be pictured like Littlo
Round Top.
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Not this time, some other time. Now
that the proposition for municipal own
ership of electric lights Is before the
people, they sre told to wait until after
we have acquired the water works. Can
anybody tell how soon that will happen?
It may be one year and It may not be
for three or four years.
A man's shirt Is always nearer to him
than his overcoat There are a whole
lot of Important questions nearer home
than the Philippines Involved lu the de
mand of the democrats that the repub
lican administration be ousted and they
bo given control of the uatlunal govern
ment Instead.
Iowans are of the opinion that they
have been made the subject of a visita
tion from Bourke Cock ran because thcie
Is little danger of injury to the demo
cratic party in that state. Even Judge
Wade conveys the Impression that he
did not ask for the Tammany spellbinder.
A Desirable Change.
New Tork Mall.
Perhaps If the railroads set lower price
on freights and a higher price on human
life they would suit the public better.
Charms of a Forlorn Hope.
Pittsburg Despatch.
The knowledge that he cannot be elected
anyhow gives Tom Watson the Inalienable
and priceless liberty of saying whatever
he pleases.
War's Gift to Feare.
Philadelphia Record.
It Is mentioned that Andrew Carnegie In
tends to erect a magnificent palace of peace
doubtless out of the profits of the manu
facture of armor plate for ships of war.
Shears In Trim Once More.
Philadelphia Ledger.
A lot of people with no money to burn
are wondering whether there Is a boom In
stocks or whether the manipulators are
playing a little game to lure the lambs on
to slaughter again.
Art Ontrlnsaeil.
Baltimore American.
Nature Is giving her annual gorgeous
free color show of the woods and defying
all the schools with her lavish and elabo
rate use of tints a mere human artist would
never dare to put together.
Nail It Down.
" Chicago Record-Herald.
Employes of the United States Steel cor
poration are reported to have made a lot
of money owing to the recent rise In the
price of that stock. They might do well to
bury It where they can find It when they
need It.
Live l'p to the Compliment.
Minneapolis Times.
President E. Benjamin Andrews of the
University of Nebraska has Just paid a
high compliment to western students. He
says they work harder than their eastern
brethren. In the east the professors- must
be constantly prodding the students, while
In the west the students are forever prod
ding the professors. Now, boys, that ought
to hold you down to business for a while.
Live up to the compliment.
An Opening- for Indians.
Philadelphia Press.
The Indians on the western reservations,
when they hear of Judge Parker's Views,
will naturally ask for their Independence.
There Is no reason why they should be
discriminated against In favor of the Fili
pinos. And yet they have been kept In
subjection and not even allowed to vote for
over a century. But then Parker has only
Just awakened on this question. The In
habitants of Porto Rico may also be stirred
up, providing they ever hear of Parker,
The Clio r oh and Divorce.
Chicago Chronicle.
The house of deputies of the Episcopal
general convention is opposed to a canon
forbidding the remarriage of the "Inno
cent party" to a divorce. Perhaps the dep
uties urn right, but, paradoxical as It may
seem, the Innocent party to a divorce is
frequently the guilty one. In thousands of
cases a divorce suit and a divorce are only
the culmination of a series of wrongs and
persecutions that have gone on all through
married life. On the other hand, the
divorced person Is frequently the 'Innocent"
person and has provoked the divorce or
provided for It by cruelty end collusion.
Take a. Covrae of Corn Food.
Boston Transcript.
There Is more ihan a grain of truth in
the statement recently made that In our
scramble for new breakfast foods we have
failed to Appreciate the nourishing, health
giving properties of corn and of cornmeal.
And the context of the statement men
tioned deals in facts when It says that the
mush and milk of a few years back pro
duced children of a ruddier hue than those
we are accustomed to see In these times.
Cornmeal Is possessed of Just those proper
ties that make It a highly suitable winter
food. Besides this, It seems an accompani
ment the most natural for pork chops,
sausages and such thing that we Amer
icans favor for cold weather breakfasts.
Let us take, then, a course In corn prod
ucts. PERSONAL AD OTHERWISE.
Lovers of autumn foliage originated the
Idea of rainbow chasing. - '
There Is no visible ground for doubting '
that the Russian position Is Shakhe. !
By far the greatest problem that per
plexes St. Louis Just now Is to find some .
in te 1rAan OfAaManfr G.anl. V,.. .... - I
the show closes.
Advance sale of seats for tho Chicago
Horse Show netted J17.B00, or, $6,000 more
than last year. Evidently the managers
cast their lines In. a paying pooL
A Cincinnati woman places the value of a
kiss stolen from her at 115.000. The Inci
dent Is characteristic. Cinclnnatlans spurn
cheap articles by reaching for the luxuries
of millionaires.
People who follow the war dispatches
scarcely need to be reminded that the Rus
sians and Japanese are past masters In
the art of diplomacy, commonly known as
the art of concealing the truth,
The man who declares that he can bring
the north pole Into communication by
means of his Improved wireless system
seems to have overlooked the rather im
portant need of first reaching the pole.
An Indiana man who died In an asylum
possessed the largest and heaviest brain
on record. So the doctors declare. This
gives t Jolt to the notion that big-brained
people nre the Intellectual salt of the earth.
Whatever fears prevail regarding the
political status of Indiana may be banished.
The Hooaler state la safe. Debating socie
ties are wrestling with the problem, "What
Becomes of tho Light When It Is Blown
Out?"
Another scientist, doubtless a bachelor,
urge mothers to use hypnotism on their
children to make them good. The sugges
tion will Increase the galty of the nur
sery. Meanwhile, those unfamiliar with
the hypnotlo art will accomplish equally
good results with the palming art.
A Chicago court defines a woman's "full
dress" as "short at the top and long at the
bottom." Really the wisdom of some of
our courts crowds the prostlge of Solomon.
There Is vast room for missionary effort
In Arkansas, where s young man. at s re
cent pqhMo meeting .Impeached the honor
of his mothejr.
JThe coursge and determination acquired
on a score of battlefields continues un
diminished In the case of a New Tork
veteran,' who, at 98. married his third wife.
Judge Parker hes been tripped up re
peatedly for using too many ciphers In his
statistics. Still, crltlos might practice a
little charity, considering the stock of
ciphers that troop upon him.
General Joe Wheeler, hero of three wars.
Is anxious for another scrap, expressing a
desire to break Into the scrimmage In
ManchurH. No need of going so far from
home. Flvhtlng Joe can get another pill
by Jroprig acl to tre di mor-r' tlo ran' s.
It Is settled nnally. by scientific oraolrs,
that a steady diet of prunes strengthens
the moral nature of the consumer. The
oracles might go further and show that lbs
strengthening power of prunes have
enabled men to swear off. without Inci
dental provocation.
IF.CVLAR SHOT9 AT TUB Pt'I-PIT.
Chicago Record-Herald: Bishop Totter
has received a case of ftn old whisky as
s reward for his services In dedicating that
New Tork saloon. In his esse the question
will not be "Where did he get Itf but
"What will he do with It?"
Minneapolis Times: The archbishop of
Canterbury spoke In Psneull hall, Boston,
the other day In a state of which the gov
ernor Is a Methodist and In a city of which
the mayor Is a Catholic. The proceedings
began with an address by the president of
Harvard college, an eminent Unitarian. Re
Jlglous toleration seems to be fairly secure
In this country.
Philadelphia Record: At a recent spir
itualistic seance in Brooklyn a doubter at
tempted to lay hands upon the materialised
spirit and was whacked over the head with
a "blackjack" which the ghost carried, evi
dently having been warned before leaving
celestial territory that there might be trou
ble. Skeptics who go to Brooklyn seances
should remember that nothing makes a
ghost so mad as to be pinched on the neck
or tickled In the ribs.
Chicago Chronicle: The Methodist min
isters worked In good earnest over the di
vorce problem, and no doubt will accom
plish some good by their efforts, but they
should have been mors specific about the
period of courtship. They did not say how
long It takes "for the quality of love to
have sufficient test to prove Its conformity
to common sense, to science and to sacri
fice." Love at first sight has often proved
lnstlng, while a courtship of years has been
followed by a disastrous honeymoon. Cupid
is the most uncertain of the gods, and ab
solutely refuses to have anything to do
with time or space. 1
Chlcngo Post: In this- scientific age It
Is surprising to read that a woman weigh
ing 300 pounds was nearly drowned In
Pennsylvania while; undergoing the sacred
rite of baptism. It appears that the good
bishop had no difficulty In tipping the lost
lamb Into the water, but when he at
tempted to raise her to the surface both
his physical powers and her spiritual ex
altation were unequal to the tax. She was
finally rescued with great difficulty. Wt
repeat that In this period of scientific ad
vancement such a misadventure is unpar
donable, and that It Is the duty of denomi
nations practicing Immersion ' to provide
against perils by water, as well as perils
by Are. A derrick, while not an attractive
object in Itself, would seem to have a sym
bolic tendency, and while pleasantly typi
fying a saving power, would be useful In
facilitating services and assisting the over
worked clergy. We seem to need mors
practical Christianity.
SHORT HAIXS WITH OASOMNE.
How a Bit of LocaJ Newa Grows as It
Wanders from Home.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Railroad officials have been working oujj
the problem of long and short hauls by
electric t radio, groping along as best
they might. The question of the use of
electricity on trunk lines Is, for practical
reasons, second to that for suburban uses,
especially for the drawing of passenger
trains. In this state experiments have been
In progress for months. These experiments
have been made not only with electricity,
but also with gasoline. In general It Is
the application of automobile traction to
railroad tracks. It Is declared that gaso
line Is cheaper than electricity, and this,
other things being equal, would decide the
question for railroads.
It is announced hat the Union Pacific
Railroad compan) . to have, within three
months, several gasoline motor cars be
tween Omaha and local stations on its Ne-
IMS WITHOUT.
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DOMESTIC PI.RASSTniE.
Tpu must ask mamma. It doesn't mat
ter about papa."
"Er -k but do the womenfolk always
rule In your family?" Town Topics.
Mrs. Henpeck Whnt do ynu think of
giving me a birthday presort?
Henpeck Great Icloa. Hut to whom could
I give vou? I renlly haven't nn enemy In
the world. Philadelphia Cmholle Standard.
"She says that she never has bren In
love, dors she? I positively know of sev
eral afTnlrs of the heart slvi hns had."
"Oh, she ws only engaged to those men."
Cleveland Leader.
Elderlv Relative You're going to marry
Jack jinglewe1? What on earth pos-se-fus
you. Berths?
Miss Bertha (with a becoming blush)
Jack) Chicago Tribune.
"Whst'dld her fnther soy when you arked
him for her hnnd?"
"Well, you know how slow of speech he
Is?"
"Yes."
"I wis a hundred yards awsy before he
could say anything." Cleveland Pluin
Dealer.
A good husband Is one who always acts
as If he regarded It as a prlvlleas to l.
allowed to go around among the dry goods
stores and mitch a piece of ribbon for his
wle. 8omervilIe Journsl.
He Ho yon believe In long engsgementsT
She Sure thing.
He And why, prayT
She Because a woman should allow her
prospective husband to pre as her Ideal
as long as possible. Chicago News.
Dick Do you know that you are taller
In the morning than you nre nt nltrht?
Slick Well. I know tbt I am "shorter"
at night. Detroit Free Press.
"Don't feel so cut up about It, Mr. Ske
mer," said Miss Roxley. after rejecting
him. "I'm not the first girl you ever loved,
nor, I venture to say, am I likely to be the
last."
"No." he sighed, disconsolately, "but
you're the richest." Philadelphia Ledger.
THE IlOtftH ItlDEIt.
James Jeffrey Roche In Boston Pilot.
Woe to the lords of the land oppressed
When the flowing tide runs strong.
With a freight of hate on Its sullen breast
And the vengeance that waited long!
They ruled the Isle with a rod of steel;
With a scourge they smote It sore.
Till Its manhood broke, for It would not
kneel.
And It knew its sons no more.
But back to the land of love and woe
They came to demand their own;
And n scoffing world looked on, till, lot
It saw they came not alone.
For out of the north and out of the south
And out of the cast and west.
Welcome ns rain to a land of drouth
Went our bravest and our best.
Nothing they feared, alive or dead:
They were not of the fearsome kind;
They followed wherever their captain led.
And his place was not behind.
Well to the fore In every fray.
First on the crest of San Juan height.
They fought In the straight Rough Rider
way
As their captain loves to fight.
i
They cleared the Isle of the tyrant horde;
They gave It into Its people's hand
God send one day such another sword
For another captive land!
But work Is now for the Rider bold.
To clear the land that he loves the best
Of its evildoers and evils old
And many a civil plague and pest.
What our captain says he will surety do;
What our captain does will not be HI;
And the millions behind him here are true
As the Riders who rode at San Juan hill.
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