THE OMAITA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 19. 1904
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(SeaU M. B. HUNGaTE.
Notary Public.
Ouly ouo wei'k more fur Christmas
chopping.
I'ntil tho jiutonxiblle Hlelgh is invented
Santa CIiuih will lmve to Ktii'k to lils
reindeer and Hied.
At lust the prohibltionittts have found
one irregularity which cannot be attrib
uted to "the demon of rum."
rerhaps the t'ssur in holding those
eeuiHtvolttt proposals back for ti Christ
mas present to tho Itussiun people.
Kandit liuisouli was evidently not im
pressed by that vicarious punishment
with which the sultau ,of Morocco was
threatened.
Think how fate compensates in ease
of those Mormons who have to "play
Ham a Clnus" ut hulf a dozen different
households.
Now that Eugene V. Ware is out of
office he may play even with some of
those clamorous congressmen by ''put
ting them into rhyme."
If such accidents as that of the Ulen
Island continue to be common, traveling
on steamships in coastwise trade will
soon be classed as extra hazardous.
General Miles will know tho full
meaning of 'Mho pomp und panoply of
war" when lie calls the Ancleut and
Honorable Artillery of lioston beforo
him for review.
Itend the advertising columns of The
Hee. They constitute tho blll-of-fare of
tho Christmas feast spread by our enter
prising merchants and a tempting bill-of-fare
It i. too.
Tort Arthur's fall does not look as
near at hand us It did before Generul
Htoessel and General Nogl held confer
ence, but that otHelal map of tho strong
hold may play u part never Intended by
Its maker.
Tho saluto to the body ot former Pres
ident Kruger ordered by Kiug Edward
nnds a parallel only in the United States,
where soldiers of the United States army
march In procession held In honor of
confederate dead.
Possibly the celebrated criminal law
yers retuined by Mrs. Chodwick are
working for remuneration like that re
ceived by her bunkers, but It Is more
probable that they insisted on a prepay
ment of cold cash.
The discovery, announced from gov
ernmental quarters at Washington, that
artificially colored butter Is unwhole
some food may be a "boost" for the
oleomargarine manufacturers as well as
a "knock" on tho creameries.
Those members of tho British privy
council who object to the form of appeal
f the United States In the (Jaynor and
Green cuso should Inspect some of the
petitions tiled in American luw courts
Setutm thuy become too critical.
Wb.en the Colorudo supreme court gets
through with the election contests the
honest voters of the state will realize
that If a man Is to be Judged by theroin
pauy he keeps, all of them were In
rather bad company on election duy.
Farmers who feared competition of
Canudlau wheat may nnd 'their own
sales Increased by Its Importation after
all, as the mixed Hour is wild to be the
best and millers claim that they will use
more of the native product iu preparing
the Imported for market. It's nu ill
wind.
The Standard oil company ha re
duced prices on crude oil ." cent right on
the heels, too, of the ucceptuuee of Mr.
Rockefeller's donution to the University
of Nebraska aud lu spite of the assur
ance by the opixinents of tho itift that It
would be followed immediately by a rise
In oil quotations. J'rophett of these days
are uot lufallibl
.v ixtersta te commerce cuvrt.
The creation of an Interstate commerce
court, which bj receiving serious consid
eration at the hands of President Roose
velt, memlers of his cabinet and meiu
lers of congress. Is the natural sequence
of the Interstate commerce luw and the
more recently created bureau of corpora
tions of the iK-partment of Commerce.
When the Interstate commerce law was
enacted In sst, after years of agitation,
it was foreseen by the advocates of gov
ernmental regulation and supervision of
railroads that the commission created by
thut act would be Impotent unless it wus
given power to enforce its decisions.
It 1ms always been an open iiestion
whether coliirress could confer upon the
Interstate Commerce commission both
executive and Judicial functions, such ns
have been exercised by the Board of
Trade of Great Britain. Our constitu
tion draws a broad line of demarcation
between the three co-ordinate branches
nf government nnd neither of the co
ordinate branches can delegate to nny
other lody powers that are expressly
vested In it.
It will be remembered that the first
national anti trust convention, held at
Chicago In 1 Si adopted resolutions
nfter a protracted discussion of the prob
lem of trust regulation that the Initial
step toward making trusts harmless
should be the creation by net of congress
of a bureau of supervision and control
of corporations' engaged In Interstate
commerce with powers for its chief sind-'
lar to those exercised by the comptroller
of the currency over national bunks.
At tin first conference held In Chicago
in lKU'.t the editor of The Bee asked the
conference to reiterate the demand for
supervision and control and to supple
ment tho demand by urging upon con
gress the creation of fin Interstate com
merce court, with exclusive Jurisdiction
in all cases arising out of the violation
of Interstate commerce laws.
Tills was the first time that nn Inter
state commerce court was publicly advo
cated as a measure Imperatively de
manded to Insure the more effective en
forcement of the Interstate commerce
laws, and It is highly gratifying that the
country Is nt last awakened to the Im
perative need of such a tribunal. The
apprehensions nnd fears expressed In
certain quarters that an Interstate com
merce court would cause interminable
delay in tho disposition of complaints
caused by tho violation of the Interstate
commerce net is unwarranted, If not ab
solutely groundless. Instead of causing
delay the interstate commerce court
would reinforce the Interstate Com
merce commission and expedite the final
disposition of cases arising under the
interstate commerce laws.
The original recommendation for the
creation of this court, as made at tho
Chicago conference, contemplated a tri
bunal composed of either seven or nine
Judges, holding their positions for life
with salaries that would Insure for the
commerce bench lawyers who occupy
front rank at the bar or on the bench.
It was also contemplated that new court
was to have exclusive and final Jurisdic
tion over Interstate commerce cases to
whose adjudication its entire time should
le devoted. The proposition that the
Judges who now constitute the court of
appeals In the various federal circuits
should alternate and perform the func
tions of Judges of the new commerce
court can scarcely be entertained. It
goes without saying that the duties that
will devolve upon the proposed court of
Interstate commerce will monopolize all
tho time of tho most capable and effi
cient Judges that can be found In the
land. As time rolls on there Is likely to
be more business for that court than It
can expedite In ten hours each day all
the year round.
AMERICAN CITIZEXSIUP
One of tho most important recom
mendation mado by President Roose
velt in his annual message is tha'; re
lating to immigration and naturalization.
It refers to a policy which is basic in
our governmental policy and which
needs today more than ever before in
our history to be regulated upon abso
lutely sound and safe principles. While
It may be admitted that at the outset
of our government it was wise and ex
pedleut to adopt an absolutely liberal
policy in the matter of naturalization,
there can be no question that at the
present time a different rule Is neces
sary and that greater cure is required
in the matter of admitting aliens to citi
zenship. We think this fact is now uni
versally recognized, so that there is prac
tically no opposition to the proposition
of Mr. Iloosevelt in his annual message.
In the opinion of the president there
Is no danger of having too many im
migrants of tho right kind, and this
reflects tho Judgment of the country at
large. There is plenty of room here for
till the people of the right kind thut come
from abroad. They have been assimi
lated and utilized In the pifst and will
be In the future. But the question of
makjug these aliens citizens of the
United States is another matter and It
is a question of the very first importance.
As President Roosevelt said In his an
nual message, the citizenship of this
country should not be debased. "It la
vital that we should keep high the stand
ard of well-being among our wage-workers
and therefore we should not hdmlt
masses of men whose standards of living
and whose personal customs and hublts
are such that they tend to lower the
level of the American wage-worker." In
regard to naturalization the president
said that the greatest care should be
taken, in order to prevent the frauds
which lmve been practiced to an un
precedented extent during recent years.
In reference to this the president pointed
out iu his message that within the past
year the cases of false, fraudulent and
improper naturullzution of aliens coining
to the attention of the executive
brunches of the government had in
creased to an alarming degree, and he
r.rgcd the necessity of a comprehensive
revision of the naturalization laws, with
a view to correcting the existing defects
and rendering It lesa easy than at pres
ent for aliens to secure citizenship.
The jiositlon of the president In this
matter, the Importance of which cannot
lie overestimated. Is unquestionably cor
rect. The admission to American citi
zenship is a most serious matter and
should ! safeguarded with the greatest
possible care.
VOLltE REFORM IX A XLTSI1ELL.
1. Banish the saloon from the pro
scribed district.
2. Rotate the police officers doing
duty in the district so that no patrol
man detailed for that beat shall serve
more than ten days successively, nor re
turn to the same beat more than once In
twelve months.
3. Replace the police nffb-ers and pa
trolmen stationed at the police station
and jail by a fresh detail, at least once
each month, so that the same officers
shall not 1k In charge of the police sta
tion more than one month In any single
year.
4. Prohibit members of the police
force from soliciting or accepting gifts
of any description, including free
cigars, free drinks, or free show tickets,
nnd dismiss summarily any man con
victed of violating this rule.
When these reforms shall have been
inaugurated a great step will be taken
In the direction toward purging police
government from scandal and oppor
tunity for corrupt practices.
THE rEACE COXFEREXCE.
It is announced that every government
to which the United States addressed a
note of invitation for another peace con
ference, with n view to settling ques
tions that were not disposed of by The
Hague convention, have accepted t he
principle suggested by our government,
only Russia making the condition that
the proposed conference shall not be
held until the war In the far east is
ended. Japan, however, is willing to
participate in the conference, with the
single reservation that nothing shall be
determined affecting the war in which
thot country Is engaged. It Is stated
that this is regarded at Washington as
perfectly proper and reosonable, and as
a position In which Russia will perhaps
concur, so that even that power may be
willing to participate in an early con
ference. The action of the United States in
inviting another peace conference has
be-n regarded by some ns Ill-advised,
but the general acquiescence of Euro
pean governments, made after careful
deliberation, shows that no mistake was
made in the matter by tho Washington
administration. As a matter of fact the
acceptance of the Invitation by the neu
tral powers is abundant manifestation of
their belief that tills is a most favorable
time for the nations signatory to The
Hague convention to discuss questions
that were left undetermined by that con
vention nnd the settlement of which has
become especially urgent. This can be
done without any reference to issues
growing out of the Russo-Japonese war,
or at least affecting them. Consequently
there seems to be a fuvorable prospect
that the proposed conference will be
held in the near future.
AS TO A iWS STATE CEXSVS.
Tho constitution of Nebraska directs
the legislature to provide for the taking
of a ceusus every tenth year, midway
between the federal' censuses, upon
which is to be bused the reapportion
ment of legislative representation. Al
though the legislatures preceding the
year 1SU5 willfully neglected to carry
out tliis maudute, thut will not relieve
tho impending legislature from tuklng
the steps .necessary to carry out the
pian of the constitution makers.
The excuse for the omission of IX!).")
census was the straitened resources of
the state, duo to a successsiou of drouth
yeurs, und also tho fear that the re
sults of a census, taken immediately
after the exodus of drouth sufferers,
would by comparison with the previous
federal census of 180(5, show up det
rimentally to the Interests of the state.
The objection based upon the expense
will, doubtless, be urged again, but
tho objection bused upon a feur of the
results, will not hold good this year.
All the damage that could be done to
Nebraska and our principal cities by
skrinkage of census figures has already
been done by the census of 1900, which
effectually exposed the reckless pudding
of the iH'M census and made It appear
that Nebraska had almost stood still in
the decude covered, while its cities
actually went backward. Wo all know
thut this setback was a setback on
paper only, but the proof to the outside
world cun come only from another cen
sus that will show the additional head
way gained slnco the enumeration of
l'JoO. From a standpoint of results,
therefore, we have nothing to lose und
everything to gain from a state census
the coming yeur.
On the question of expense, too, relief
Is In sight. In the report of the director
of the nutloiial census bureau, atten
tion is called to thu fact that Nebraska
and certain other states are expected
to provide for a census in 1005 and the
recommendation is offered that congress
arrange for co-operation between state
and federal authorities. The director
of the census cites a law enacted in
1879, at the suggestion of General Fran
els A. Walker, then superintendent of
tho census, permitting the authorities
of any state that should take n ceusus
of its own Inhabitants upon schedules
corresponding to those of the national
census, to deposit duplicates with the
Interior department and' receive an
order upon the treasury for 50 per cent
of tlie outlay Incurred in gathering the
Information. Although this law has
lapsed, a bill to lv-enact It Is pending In
congress, upon which favorable action
Is earnestly urged by the present census
director. "If it call be passed ut an
early period of the approaching ses
sion," he siijs, "It will undoubtedly
leud to legislation In some states for a
cooperative public population census in
If our Nebrasku delegation in con
gress, then, will exert Itself In this be
half and our legislature take care of
the necessary preliminaries, the coming
state census cau be had with half the
expense ttorne out of the national treas
ury. With only a short session of con
gress aheod, no time is to be lost by
either national or state legislative
bodies. Unless this Joint action Is had.
the ppople of Nebraska will either have
to defray tho entire cost of the count
ing, or will be compelled to continue
to submit indefinitely to the grossly dls
proportioned allotment of legislative
representation, which we have endured
now for more than fifteen years.
IXTERXA TIOXA L A RBI TRA TO.Y.
The mass meeting at New York on
FMday in the Interest of International
arbitration cannot fail to have an im
pressive influence not only lu this coun
try, but throughout the civilized world.
The sentiments expressed at this meet
ing of distinguished men, who are most
earnest in their belief that there is a
way to settle international disputes
without a resort to war, cannot fail to
commend themselves to the intelligent
Judgment of their countrymen and to nil
people who feel that the time baa come
when the nations of the world should
seek to settle their differences by an ap
peal to reason rather than to the arbitra
ment of the sword.
There are circumstance under which
no nation will refuse to appeal to arms
lu defense of its rights and its honor.
Every country will tight always for the
Integrity of its territory and for the
maintenance of those rights which are
essential to its existence and welfare.
No court of arbitration and no treaty
can prevent this. But there are many
controversies arising between nations
which are of a nature to be settled by
arbitration and It Is for the amicable ad
justment of such difficulties that the
movement represented in the mass meet
ing nt New York was Intended. It (flight
to exert the Influence upon congress for
which It was designed. The treaties
that have lioen negotiated providing for
arbitration should be promptly ratified
by the senate. They commit tho United
States to no alliance with any country,
but simply recognize und give effect to
a principle which this nation lias always
acknowledged nnd urged. From the be
ginning of our government It lias been
favorable to the principle of interna
tional arbitration, so that what is being
done today is simply following out a
policy that is ns old as the republic and
has always been regarded as an essen
tial American principle. The arbitration
treaties which have been negotiated and
which In nowise constitute nn alliance
with nny foreign country should be
promptly ratified by the senate, so that
the civilized world may be assured that
the sentiment of the American people in
favor of universal pence is not a mere
pretense, but a sincere nnd earnest con
viction, in tho realization of which they
are prepared to go us far as any other
people.
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The latest developments In tho Reed
Smoot case causes one to wonder just
what federal or state statute provides
thut a church, us such, shall take no part
In politics. Church Interference may be
bad form and worse policy in the long
run, but such things have been known hi
other states and in other churches.
Attorneys for the railroads that are
fighting the taxes levied ou them under
the new revenue luw propose to show
by the minutes of tin; state board
that the assessment was not reached by
the proper route. Had the figures to
talled up a few million less the route
would not have been questioned.
The public is no doubt ititerested us to
the terms of agreement between Luwson
nnd Greene nnd magazine sales may be
Increused thereby, Luwson cun evidently
bent Upton nt advertising even if he
cannot meet him in a boat race.
Are We Growing Better?
Minneapolis Journal.
Tho citizens of America beg pawdon,
L'sona wero fairly luw abiding during tha
month of November. Not a single caso of
lynching was reported during the month,
the first calendar month to show a clear
record since 1S85. It may have been an ac
cident, but maybe we are growing better.
Talent Ueta the Salary.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The president of the American Base Ball
league Is to have a salary of $10,000 a yeur,
which Is $2,000 a year more than the United
States pays to tho secretary of the treas
ury, it must be remembered, however,
that a good president of a huso ball league
can't be picked up unywhere.
The Dream of Dresmers.
Brooklyn Kagle.
Tho idea of a Jewish republic, under a
Jewish flag, Is attractive to ninny of those
who listen to the urgfugs of Mr. Zangwlll
and others, but we imagine that the num
ber of Jews who would leave New York to
live In a new Palestine, would be about ns
lurgo us thut of the Irishmen who are will
ing to resign American citizenship to free
Ireland, or live in It after It Is free.
I'liltSOVAI. AM) OTHKIIWISK.
Let it be suld in Mrs. Chadwlck's favor
that she didn't spell her name "C'assye."
Mrs. Chudwlck contldenced tome lawyers,
too, but the lawyers were quirk enough to
get their money buck.
Judge Swayne has the chance of a life
time to test the efficacy of an Injunction
on tho Impeachment proceedings.
Chicago has Just dedicated a. temple of
music, und at thu mine time opened up a
cat show. Thus the mews and the musv-s
divide the attention of society.
Mrs. Htty Qreen says "nil the croc lis
are nut in Jail yet." Right you are. Hetty.
If all crooks got their due Jail accommo
dations would have to be quadrupled.
Copies of ,i large placuxd reading, "All
women applicants for money must apply
to the L'harlty Organisation society," are
selling at fancy prices among the bunkers
of the tust.
The firm of lawyers which successfully
defended thu rights of the Cliuctuw and
Chickasaw Indiana to certain tribal lands
secured u fee of $7Eu,OoO. The land won by
the Indians Is worth $.',UIO,UUO.
A Chicago crook who supplemented his
dally wage with evening hold-up explains
his dual life by saying ha needed "tha
thrill of adventure." His captors kindly
supplied a few thrills with their cluha.
MR. HAHOHEr'8 VtSDICATIOX.
O.MAllA, December 17, liAH.
To Timothy J. Mahouey:
When a Frenchman of quality Is ag
grieved at anything published about him
he challenges the editor to the Held of
honor and if he succeeds in pricking his
skin and drawing one drop of blood he
considers his honor restored and his
vindication complete. Hut you have seen
fit to seek a vindication for an alleged
libel through tho criminal courts. As a
former prosecuting attorney you doubt
less know that the most lenient penalty
for criminal libel under the statutes ot
Nebraska Is Imprisonment In the peui
tentiary for not less than one year. Von
know also that this drastic penalty was
inserted Into the criminal code expressly
for my benefit at the instance of legis
tive lobbyists nnd boodlers un whom
I hnd turned the limelight of publicity
in the tight for the passage of the anti
gambling law before the legislature of
1VS7.
Knowing that my term of life Is not
likely to extend beyond ten years, you
seem determined not only to have me
branded as a felon, hut to compel me
to spend nt least one-tenth of the re
mainder of my life in a zebra suit at
hard labor. This Is perfectly In accord
with the lofty ideals of a gentleman of
your stripe. You would doubtless exult
and rejoice to know that my disagree
able activities have been repressed by
incarceration In t he penitentiary nnd I be
tray no secret In saying that some men
now serving terms in the penitentiary,
several men who have served terms In
the penitentiary and nny number of men
who ought to be in the penitentiary
would rejoice with you should you suc
ceed in vindicating your honor in that
fashion.
Hut, my dear and good Mr. Mnhoney,
I cannot for the life of me comprehend
why you should have invoked tho power
of the criminal courts to restore to you
your honor. Why did you not avail
yourself of the privilege previously ac
corded to you to explain to the public
your deal with Hartley through the col
umns of The Hee instend, as you claim,
of allowing your honor to reninln tar
nished for four nnd one-hnlf months?
You doubtless remember that your sev
eral letters, bristling with malicious
slander, vituperation and libelous In
nuendoes were given as much publicity
in The Hee as the letters addressed to
yourself by me.
Many of my friends expressed amaze
ment that I would allow myself to be
villitied and traduced in my own paper,
hut I extended to you Its privileges, first,
because it lias been my Invariable custom
to give my opponents n hearing, anil, in
the next place, because I knew that a
man conscious of his own rectitude can
always live down n baseless charge, but
a man with a guilty conscience cannot
live down the truth.
You did not, however, appear content
with confining your discussion before
the readers of The Hee, but you ex
hibited your lamentable lack of manli
ness nnd honor by publishing libelous
screeds in other Omaha dailies, knowing
that I had no .chance to controvert your
cowardly assaults, and thus you suc
ceeded in creating prejudice and resent
ment against me among many people
who do not rend The Bee and who are
credulous enough to believe your fulse
accusations. Nothing better, however,
could have been expected from a man
who seeks a vindication nt the hands of
tho criminal courts for tho publication
of statements derived from a source that
the writer had good reasons to believe
to be reliable, and which, moreover, con
cern the taxpayers of the state.
Since you have seen fit to call for a
vindication iu a particular court of
justice, believed by you to be unfriendly
to myself, Instead of allowing the regu
lar machinery of the criminal courts to
be set in motion by the officers charged
with the prosecution of law violaters. it
may not be out of place for me to ask
you a few questions.
In our recent interview before !ov
ernor Mickey you admitted that you re
ceived $r00 for services as an attorney
in the defense of Hartley when he was
on trial on the charge of embezzlement.
Who paid this fee? Did Hartley pay it
or did you pay yourself? If you paid
yourself, what did you pay with? Was
It out of money deposited for Bnrtley
by some unknown friend or was it out
of money collected for Hartley from
parties who were Indebted to Hartley?
Did Hartley have nny legal right to this
money, nnd, if not, did not the money
rightfully belong to the stute?
These questions mny be incompetent.
Irrelevant and immnterinl In a court of
law, but they are pertinent in the court
of public opinion Just a.s much as would
lw the question how much you received
for services from the sureties of a for
mer city treasurer who embezzled $115,
000 nnd settled out of court for $35,000.
And it would be Just ns pertinent to pro
pound t)tp query how much you nre to
get if you succeed In hypnotizing the
state officers, or legislature, to cancel the
$000,000 ot princlpql nnd more than
$L00,0(tO of interest due to the state
from tho Hartley bondsmen on condition
tliat they get a quit claim upon payment
of the accumulated costs of the suit?
Would you be satisfied with 5 per cent
of the total or would It take more, to
vindicate your honor, thnn $30,000 to
$."0.000?
These reflections would naturally sug
gest themselves to ordinary people, even
If they do not to your nssocintes In civic
reform. E. KOSKWATER.
Canada on Its Illarultr.
lialtlmore American.
England Is alarmed over any further
closer commercial relations between Canada
and the United States. The mother coun
try has not forgotten the declaration of
her important colony that a lie la mistress
In her o n house, for declarations of Inde
pendence on this side of the water are
serious things, und she has no desire fur
history i" the case to repeat Itself.
i'aase for Wonder.
New York Herald.
A Waxhii.gton statistician suys that man
in the I'nlled States is numerically supe
rior, but wuman lives longer. Wonder who
Invented that term "weaker sex '
CRMO RO I I.ED DOW.
Endurance Is the fruit nf endeavor.
Hatred always hurts the hater most of
all.
A little helpfulness may cover a lot of
heresy.
Scret sins do not have secret conse
quences. Liberty Is opportunity for all mho realize
ths best.
It takes a grett man not to despise a
little one.
Love measures life by Its chances to give
Itself away.
People who re In the swim are not go
ing against the tide.
One never knows a man any better for
tearing him to pieces.
The recording angel knows the back all-y
s well as the front ysrd
Too many are willing to wash the dis
ciple's feet with boiling lye.
All the great work In the world is sim
ply doing the best that Is in us.
The rooters are always content to let
the other fellows do the digging.
He Is always a poor man who knows no
more In life than making money.
There Is no virtue In the ore-day sprint
that requires the wven-day snoore.
He who can put his soul Into a necktie
seldom has any heart for the needy.
The man who Insists that business is
only business Is apt to prove that religion
Is only humbug.
Some men will miss heaven because they
sit so long by the wayelde dissecting their
guide books.
One of the great changes needed In the
city church Is to take tho exit signs off
the doors and put them on the collection
plates. Chicago Tribune.
SECT I, Alt SHOTS AT Til K PI I. PIT.
Philadelphia North American: John Alex
ander Dowie has puld debts to the amount
of 1-10,000 In the last year. Llje continues
to be considerable of a bird, despite the
loss of sundry tall feathers.
Somervllle Journal: It Is mighty mean
to laugh when the minister slips on the
Icy sidewalk and fnlls down, particularly
when you remember that ho isn't allowed
as much freedom to express his thoughts
at auch times as other people are.
Roston Transcript: A New Hampshire
minister would have the promise to love
eliminated from the marriage vow. There
are so many cases where It la Impossible
for either party to perform what they
promise that he thinks they should not
undertake too much.
Minneapolis Journal: Trinity church In
New York City has announced that under
no circumstances will divorced persons bo
married by any of the clergy of that Kpls
copal parish, which Includes eight chapels.
The Trinity clergy, by their action, ac
cept the 'permission of the general con
vention, given at the recent session In
Huston, to decline to perform marriages
of divorced persons. Thla action shows the
trend of thought In the churches on this
matter.
Re&d this letter agm. It
has & striking interest ivow.
How uncertain is the thread of
life.
"Sight Draft at Maturity"
is no misnomer.
Of five companies the first to pay.
IU! Merchants National Bank
OF OMAHA, NEB.
United States Depository
Capital and Surplus $600,000.
FRANK MURPHY,
President.
BEN B. WOOD, ;
Vice President.
LUTHER DRAKE.
Cashier.
FRANAKHHtTcHa8rr'TON' Omaha, Neb., July 8, 1904.
H. D. Neely, Manager,
Equitable Life Assurance Society,
Omaha, Neb.
Dear Sir:
I have received from you draft of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.
S. in the sum of Tan Thousand Dollars
($10,000) on account of policy on life of
Ben B. Wood.
, Of five policies in five different com
panies this is the first payment to the
estate.
Yours truly,
FRANK MURPHY,
Administrator.
"THE STRONQEST IN THE WORLD"
THE EQUITABLE LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY
UK TI1K I MTKI1 STATUS
IIK.MIY II. IIVUK, Kouuder.
I20 BROADVAY, NEW YORK
JAMEI W, ALEI ASDER, lra.
H. D. NEELY, Mgr. for Nebraska
Mrrrhaata National Bank Bulldlut.
WM. H K N It Y IIHOW, f'a.hler.
a. H. KLbOV sad IS. . nilKETEH, Grarral Aat.., Omaha.
II. II. I.UI tillHIDUi:, Uraeral Arnt, l.lneolu.
JOK HI. 1.1, Ueucral Aul, I luvulu.
DOMESTIC ri.KlStATRIF".
Adam Thank you. love. That marmoset
Is a lulu
F.ve oh. a pnrrot' Just what I wanted.
How sweet of you, dear. Town Topics.
"Are you going to marry sifter. Mr.
Frmtle?
"I I don t know Johnnie."
"That s lust what Hster said when moth T
asked her." Cleveland l'laln lenler.
"At all events." .:i.l the sympathising
visitor, "your husband 1. ft an honored
tinme."
"Yes." so!.! the widow proudly, 'the ex
ecutnts huve found thit voor i irorge wasn't
worth a cent." I'hlliidelphia Ledger.
"Hns your wife bought her Christmas
presents vet ""
"No. Flic's stl'l having the f :n nf taking
thlnes honie n1 Hien sndinn tl.. m back.'
Chicago Record-Herald.
t'nanrdson The Ides of your ruieling
modern preHchur' You haven't I..,; (n
slile a chorrh biil'dlng for twenty irs"
Atom That's nn infi-nous f l. !.,,d!
Whn I w:is In T!oTve in lvi; f sre-t r,..,riv
a wholn inv In Frier's cathedral, hi, mis
you!" Chicago Tribune.
"Are you ft netvrnper man""
"No: I'm n bunker: T w is never In a
newnnper oCre in mv life "
"VVhnt n coincidence! Now. I am a news-
f'Bper men ami have never been In a bank
n mv life."
Then thev went In nnd bud a drink
Cleveland Lender.
rtnyee Why does .i woman give so much
attention to dres"? t It because she wants
to uttract men or because she desires to
ontsl'ln her sNter wnmm?"
Mrs Itovre f'sn't a woman do tmo things
at once? Smart Set.
"So she's aetunllv rnoiged to him Vht.
she told mo he was ti e 'Rt man on enrtn
sh"'d think of marrying "
"I guess that was because he was tha
last mnn on enrth h- thought would asH
her." Philadelphia Press.
Prim Mother My son 1 nm afraid vnn
are golns: to make a mistake In tnarrylng
Miss Kasvwavs Hnth she nnd her father
nre fearfu'lv lax honst-keepers.
Pon-1 know It. mother: that's what
caught me. It's so comfortable over there.
Vou know I run sit down anvwhere In tha
parlor without belnr told that I'm mussing
things up!-Petrnlt I'ree Press
IMMOHTAI.ITY.
(Poem written by Key. John White Chftfl
wick, famous Unitarian preacher of
Hrooklyn, N. Y., who died lecemler U
aged M years.)
It slngeth 111 every heart.
We hear It each and all
A song of those who answer not.
However wo may call;
They throng the silence of the breast.
We see them as of yore
The kind, the brave, the true, the sweet.
Who walk with us no more.
'Tis hard to take tho burden up
When these have laid It down;
They brightened nil tho Joy of life,
They softened every frown;
Hut, oh, 'tla good to think of them
When we are troubled sore!
Thanks be to tlod that such havo been.
Although they are no more!
Morn homelike seems the vast unknown.
Since they have entered there;
To follow them were not so hard,
Wherever they may fare;
They cannot be where God Is not.
On any sea or shore;
Whato'er betides, Thy love abides,
Our God, for evermore.
JAMK II. IIYItK, Mee-I're..
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