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WO 13 27.HOO 14 27.NSO Total , TVO.SBO Lest unsold copies 10,401 15... 2T.020 K 27.3HO 17 2S.IOO ig no.ono 19 80JIOO 20 27.no a. ar.ciio 22 27.5IO 23 27.340 24 2H,1.0 2.-, .10,4110 26 34),lBO 27.. 27,540 28 27,72 Net total sales T8,00 Daily average 2R.181 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day ot March. ISOi. (Seal) M. B. HUNOATE, Notary Public. Now that Senator Burkett lias taken his orrlciul oath of office the fight In the First district can begin. Everyone In Washington knew before the parade reached the ottpltol that the Rough Hitlers had arrived. Alter an me Russian ,army seems more willing to give ni a pass than the average American olHceholder. If Itojestvensky doesn't hurry he may find it necessary to Join the officers of the Lena in retirement at San Francisco. General Kouropatkln seems to have lost his "regret to report"" stamp, but the effect of the dispatches is the same. Washington yesterday gave St. Peters ,burg an Illustration of how the capital should hail the chief executive of a nation. ; Elevation to the vice presidency Is usually a high honor, but it. has to be taller than usual to lift Mr. Fairbanks up higher. Unless It opens tip a new spouter at least once a week the Kansas legisla ture will be In danger of falling to the level of tameuess. It goes without saying that Speaker Cannon will be mounted for action on the same platform lu the next house of representatives as in the last. Nebraska contributes its youngest member to the United States senate. It will expect him, however, to dis tinguish himself in more wa, than that. A African railroads may ask the British government to grant permission to pool their business. American roads would have pooled and dared the government to stop them. According to the dispatches the Lon don Times will wait to see whether the president or senute is running the for eign affairs of this country before taking ; a decided posit iou. Wfceu that army of 200,000 Japanese learns that General Kouropatkln has cut them off from the rest of their forces they may be tempted to carry the news to St. Petersburg. If Canada will send Greene and Gay nor back it will be forgiven some of the contributions It has sent over the border without the asking, even Including that weather of January. I . m La Follette and Spooner. as twin United States seuutora from Wisconsin could only be matched by Cleveland and Bryuu yoked to double harness from New Jersey or Nebraska. From now on It will not be permissi ble for his enemies to refer to him as president "by grace of an assassin's bul let," lie Is now prosideut by grace of . the largest popular majority ever re curded for any American chief executive. Customs guards are said to have sue ' ecssftilly resisted four attempts of Japa " nese to sink a boat in Manila harbor. If ) such stories as these prove true people ' will be led to wonder Just how much opposition Oyuiun Is rrally meeting from the Russian urmr. 1 lu. Colonel VouDKhushand seems to be Hearing about the same relation to the tliscussloiK of Thibet lu London as Ad miral bewey bore to the Philippine dls trsslon and the relation of the United Stat? ti Agulnaldo both knowing more than they care to tell. . . i , . '-va Now that Judge Swayne has been vin dicated, the right of federal Judges to travel In private cars without expense to themselves may be considered firmly esfabltshcd as u precedent not to be overruled except by the United States seur.i eittlinj tut court of lm- UCUcltUJCUt PRLS1VEXT RlWSKVKLrS 1XAVOVHAL. President Koowvelt's inaugural ad dress Is brief, wholly free from anything of a political nature, thoroughly patriotic In spirit snd wholly optimistic In Its ex pression of faith in the people and lu the security of our free Institutions. It ut ters a warning against any feeling of vrtlnglory because of the greatness of the republic and urges a due sense of the responsibilities which 'have come with our success. We must maintain toward other nations an attitude of cordial friendship, -showing them by word and deed that we desire their good will. Those who hare charged that Mr. Roose velt is not a friend of pence will rind refutation in his deliverance. The president rightly says that our most Important relations are among our selves and the problems that have grown out of the nation's Increase In wealth and iower must be met seriously and "with the unbending, unflinching pur pose to solve them aright." He points out that not only our own welfare, but also the welfare of mankind, depends upon the success of our experiment in free self-government. Therefore our re sponslblllty Is heavy and while there Is no reason for fear as to the future we must not ignore or avoid any of the problems which confront us. Not merely In great crises, but In the every day af fairs of life there must be shown the qualities of practical intelligence, cour age and endurance. The address Is nn expression of un questioning confidence In the future of the republic, of an abiding faith In the wisdom and patriotism of the people and of 'a deep sense of the responsibilities and duties resting upon us as a people. It will make a good Impression at-home and abroad, reassuring foreign nations of the desire of the United States to cul tivate their friendship and good will and conveying to our own people the promise that the executive branch of their gov ernment will continue to give earnest and careful attention to their Interests and welfare. PERJCRY PROMOTERS. A murder trial at Des Moines has just reached the climax of sensation by charges of jury fixing and wholesale perjury. A recent case in the United States court at Omaha was Interrupted by the presiding judge long enough to order the arrest of a witness who boldly confessed that he has given perjured testimony. The repeated exposure of at tempted perversion of 'Justice in our courts by Jury fixing and perjury must cause thoughtful nuyi to pause and pon der over the growth of these nefarious practices. It may safely be put down that In nine cases out of ten the commission of perjury to clear a prisoner accused of crime is instigated by or in behalf of the beneficiary. The ordinary witness who gives perjured testimony is no more capable of fixing up the' story ho Is to tell than would be a cracksman of bor ing a safe without a drill. Tbe evidence can be brought out only in answer to questions, and the questioner must know the answers before he propounds -the questions. That the fountainhead of per jury Is to be found among the lawyers who lay out the plan of defense Is self evident. The lawyer, as a rule, knows what sorf of testimony he requires to clear his ellent, and If it Is procured by perjury he can seldom fall to be cog nisant of It. The legal perjury promoter is, of course, too sharp tp do the work himself. He operates through agents and accessories, but without the guid ance of the lawyer attempts to defeat Justice by perjury would luvariably go amiss of themselves. To visit the perjurer with severe pun ishment may make It difficult for the perjury promoter to procure the tools of his business, but It does not roach the real criminal. To stop the evil effec tively requires going back of the per jurer to those higher up. Thu profes sional perjury promoter disgraces the legal profession and Is entitled neither to protection nor to sympathy at the hands of honest lawyers. If the bar could purge itself of those who bring odium upon It, It would .rise many de grees In popular estimation and Inspire Its own inemlerB with new confidence In the righteousness of our judicial system. OUR REPRESENTATIVES ABROAD It is said to be the Intention of Presi dent Roosevelt to make numerous changes In the consular and diplomatic service, weeding out those who have been found Incompetent or inefficient. There Is doubtless substantial ground for the statement, for It Is the opinion of the president, as was expressed in hl Inst annual message, that the consular service can be improved and It is In the power of the administration to effect the needed improvement. In referring to the matter the New York Times observes that Mr. Roosevelt Is In a better position than auy previous president to lay the foundations of u real service, In which both Initial ap pointments and promotions shall be made for fitness, so far lis that fitness can be ascertained by the tests adopted lu other branches of the civil service, It points out that one of his advantages for this work is his own .unquestioned Interest In the merit system and another Is the value of the advice and assistance of the secretury'of state, who has repre sented the country abroad. Still another advantage possessed by Mr. Roosevelt Is the huge popular majority which makes him Independent of the spoils politicians. But perhaps the most important consid eration Is the increasing recognition of I he importance of our being worthily represented. No one, It Is safe to say, Is more heartily lu sympathy with the demand that we shall be worthily represented abroad than the president. ThV be knows the weak places In the consular and diplomatic service Is not to be doubted and all who occupy these places will undoubtedly be removed, whatever Influence they may Is? able to command. Iu this matter the presldem will prob ably give first consideration to the great business Interests that can be benefited by an Improved consular scrvlv and will find men of some practical experi ence and familiar with the resources of the country. Applicants who have merely political bucking will receive very little If any attention. Men who have been faithful and efficient lu tbe service will undoubtedly not only be re tained but promoted, as has already been done in several cases. While It Is unquestionable that the consular service can be Improved, It must not be assumed that it Is generally bad. On the contrary It Is on the whole very good and very efficient. There are faults and defects in spots, but with these exceptions., not numerous, the United States consular service compares favorably with that of any country and Is superior to that of most of thcin. That It will be still better at the end of the next four years there Is good reason to believe and before the close of the ad ministration which began yesterday there may be legislation by congress making the reforms Instituted by the president permanent. THE PENSIONING OF SENATORS The United States senate Is evidently In danger of losing its most cherished prestige. The senate is popularly known as the most exclusive rich mau's club In the world and It is commonly supposed to represent in its membership the" largest aggregate of accumulated wealth of auy legislative body lu existence. The cartoonists, iu picturing the learned senators, are wont to portray them with bodies built up of money bags, and the favorite pattern for senatorial garb is a design interwoven with dollar marks. But the senate must be degenerating if we are to judge from the scramble of Its members to attach themselves to pensions as their senatorial terms ex pire. One senator, who has Just been relieved of his commission to represent his state In the American house of lords, has been provided for by restoring him theoretically to his former position in the army with the rank of brigadier general and retiring hiin forthwith on half pay for the remainder of his life. Another senator'who unsuccessfully sought re election from the people of this state has been named for Judge of the United States district court with a comfortable salary and life tenure, and his appoint ment withheld only because of a con stitutional provision preventing blni ac cepting an appointment to a pluce whose emoluments he has helped to Increase during his own term In the senate. A third senator, jarred loose by the vicis situdes of politics taking control away from the party responsible for his elec tion, has been promised a reward in the shape of a berth on the Interstate Commerce commissslou. These are only n few typical exam ples of what transpires every time the membership of the senate undergoes material changes with the advent of a new congress. The senator who fails to connect with a good thing when he makes his exit from the senatorial office Is the exception rather than the rule. To Impose upon a colleague the neces sity of returning at once from the sen ate chamber to private life -might in flict an unwarranted hardship. Voting pensions outright to themselves would be altogether too humiliating and place the august nenntors In the category of charity recipients, but the pensioning of senators In this roundabout way by bar ter and trade is a badge of distinction and a patriotic recognition of public service In which the Incidental salaries cut no figure whatever. STATE RIGHTS AND POSTAL BANKS. The Bee Is lu receipt of a copy of the speech on postal savings banks made in the house of representatives, January 30, by the democratic congress man from the Second Nebraska dis trict in Which a phase of the discus sion Is developed which we have not before seen. The speaker, in response to an Inquiry from a demodratlc col league,' was just launching into a re cital of the number of bank failures of the year and tbe disastrous conse quences of them when he was Inter rupted again in the following manner: Mr. Stafford The gentleman's reply sug gests the query In my mind whether the defective examination la not due to lax examination on the part of state officers. I assume, as he is on ' this aide of the chamber, that he believes In state rights and not In the extension of national super vision over local state institutions. I would like to ask him whether this mat ter Is not more a subject for Investigation on the part of state legislatures, and If the gentleman will differentiate wherein this Is' a matter of national concern? In these states where they have a rigid ex amination over savings bank deposits and whero It is required the kind of security that deposits shall be Invested In, can the gentleman Show that there has been any considerable loss that would Justify the national government In going out of Its way to trench upon state rights In the supervision of so-called "postal savings banks" T Notwithstanding the repeated efforts of the interrogator to get a reply to his questions no satisfactory answer seems to have been secured altbnugb much valuable and suggestive information on other aspects of the savings bank prob lem both here and abroad, was elicited. The question, however, opens tip to view the 'main bulwark behind which the opponents of postal sav ings banks are sure to take their position, namely, the Uefeuce of state rights against encroachment by the establishment of the postal savings system by the national government. It is for tills reason that the democratic party, which Is committed to tho main tenance 4j ' slate rights, can not be ex pected In take up the demand for pos ts! savings banks no matter how popu lar or widespread It may become with the masses of the people. Attention has been called to the fact that six postmaster generals of the United States have officially recom mended to congress tbe enactment of a luw providing for government savings bnuks, but no democratic postinuster getierul Is numbered among the list. On the contrary, every practical move i the direction of postal savings banks has ome from "the other side of the chamber." and it Is little to Ik won dered surprise Is manifested over the championship of postal savings banks by n memlH-r professing democratic affiliations, justifying Hie assumption thnt he ltelleves In. state rights. The friends of postal savings bunks must see that their hope lies' not In the state rights party, but In that party that ha no Innate prejudices agnlnst the ncctipn t Ion of this field by the national govern ment. THE VZAR'S CONCESSION. Piecemeal concessions appears to be the policy of the Russian government having in view all the time a careful re gard for the preservation intact of an tocracy. After much deliberation the czar has responded to the popular do msnd for reforms to the extent of allow lng the establishment of a national as sembly based on direct class represents tlon to sit In n consultative capacity and propose laws, or as expressed In the rescript, "to participate In the elabora tlon and consideration of legislative measures." This is a step toward the realization of what the reformers have asked, but It is not a very long step. It was stated a few days ago that most of the ministers had Joined in expressing tho opinion to the emperor that such a measure, coupled with the reforms enun elated in the manifesto of December 2.r. 1!M4, guaranteeing equality before the law, responsibility of officials and prac tical freedom of the press, would meet the present situation. At the same time they agreed that such a solution could be only temporary. An assembly of the kind proposed would be an anomaly In the Russian government and would have to give way soon to a regular parliamen tary body. This fact Is said to be rec ognized by tbe liberals, whom the pro posed form will not satisfy, but who still would hall it as a practical victory for future constitutional government. It remains to be seen how the people will regard this latest concession, made with the, condition that there must be no chnnge In the fundamental laws of the empire. These lows ore of course the bulwark of' the autocracy and in or der to meet the demands for reform a change In them is absolutely necessary. A representative assembly that would be powerless to accomplish this would be of no very great value. As a con sultatlve body it might, of course. le able to secure some legislation or action on the part of the government In the Interest of the people, but with the so called fundamental laws unchunged no very material benefits to the people could be expected. Meanwhile the Internal troubles con tinue to perplex and vex tho czar and are becoming more widespread and seri ous from day to day. The revolutionary spirit Is undoubtedly growing, however Impotent It may be. In the far east the Russian armies are meeting with defeat and It Is reported that there exists among the troops a great deal of dis affection, due to the knowledge of con ditions at home. It Is a very grave state of affairs that confronts the Russian government and It may well be doubted whether the czar's concession of a na tional assembly will have any marked remedial effect upon the situation. Dr Osier's declaration that when men i reach 40 their usefulness for con structive work is at a standstill and that when they reach 60 they are ready to be chloroformed is eliciting endless discussion, but the question has not yet been brought up in the Woman's clubs as to whether Dr. Osier's axiom applies to women as well as to men. Had Dr. Osier only been more specific and exttfided the rule to both men and women he might have had to prepure himself for the chloroform at once with out waiting to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. The showing of Commissioner Garfield lu the matter, of the packing houses would be more satisfactory for the man agers of those Institutions If the presi dent had not at the sume time said some of the facts are being held secret until the Department of Justice can act on them. Some Advantages We Lack. Philadelphia Ledger. The strike In Russia haa now extended to the "maid servants.'1 The strikers .wore, however, dispersed by Cossacks. American housekeepers have no such powerful aid In a like emergency. OSLKRISM ItOOTEH. Baltimore American: The theory of a man past his usefulness at 40 suggests a horrible flood poured upon the world of Infant phe nomenon!. Chicago Inter Ocean: Should It ever be come customary to chloroform men over 60 In this country a great many men who are under 25 would have a hard time trying to prove It. nttsburg Dispatch: Since Dr. Osier says thnt u man cannot do creative work after he Is 40, and Count Tolstoi asserts that he cannot do It before he Is 40, the burden Is plainly on the men who are Just 40 to do very vigorous hustling. fit, Louts Olobe-Democrat : Thecrank who proposes to chloroform men on reaching the ii ge of M probably wants to save the pen sion appropriation. But the entire amount It represents could not bestow rommon sense and decency on the few who are born without It and grow up to make such prop ositions. New York Sun: A careful canvass of tho national, state and territorial legislatures. nnd an examination of the constitutions ; now In force In the United States of Amer- lea, will serve to quiet the fears of any ' gentlemen of 00 years or more, who are alarmed over the chloroform suggestion of ' Dr. Osier. Indianapolis News: We believe that It could be demonstrated that a man's best work Is done after he parses his 40th year. a conclusion that Is strengthened by the fact that the great Japanese generals who are now In the field are all over DO and some over fit). And, speaking of generals, we re- ' call that Orant was 4.'J when he refused to 1 receive Lee's sword at Appomattox. Forty ' years Indeed! One only then begins to live, only then to be conscious of one's powers. PERSONAL AMI OTHERWISE. fT'ni in i SAVING For 8l Home MADE EASY BY OPENING A SAVINGS ACCOUNT WITH 6f)e Bankers Savings and Loan Association This iiNKooiation lias imhmi a successful sav ing institution for 14 vears and is now one of Omaha's solid financial enterprises. Pays 6 Per Cent Interest ON YOUR SAVINGS. OFFICERS AND DlRFCTODS. (iKO. r. ('HONK President W. V. LINCOLN vi,.P president H. KORTY Treasurer K. V SMITH Secretary TIIOS, I) CRANK Attoniev .lu.v I. Foster. 11. H. IVtcrw. F. B. Johnson. Jamps Alnseow. 2I M. lttth Street. J. S. Kykes. 'I'lione 317. The zemnkl sobor does not lend much gaiety to life In St. Petersburg. , The report in a New York paper tha "three chorus girls were barely rescued' from the recent theater tire can be readily believed. Five promoters of wildcat Insurance have been convicted and sentenced by Chicago courts In less than a year. Oood policy Pass it along. The warlike activity of the Mad Muliuh Indicates thnt he is not much impressed with the beauty and economy of The Hague urbltra'lon court. A New Jersey minister takes an advanced positfon as a modern theologian by giving trading stamps with every marriage cere mony he performs. The charms of California -climate receives a fresh boost. The pesky flea la not coming up to the scratch with the vigor and ac tivlty of former years. . Golden-winged opportunity continues knocking for her favorites. A New York brokerage firm announces a debt of $2,225, 000 and not a dollar In sight. The police of San Francisco are said to be chasing for a man who has $1 .OO.OOQ com lng to him, and they know where it Is. So far he hus managed to elude the police and the money. Mrs. Maud Gonne McBrlde Is airing her domestic troubles In the Paris divorce court The darling advocate of physical force seems to have made a failure of her first experience. A tremendous religious revival Is going on In Louisville, Ky., and the star-eyed goddess is rumbling unmoved among the senors and Benoritus of fair Castile. An Iowa professor out-oslers Osier by de claring that all women over 30 yeurs are ranky. When people hanker for notoriety common-sense scoots for tall timber. The school authorities of Queen's county, New York, are wrestling with a problem In mental arithmetic to-wlt., how can two tons of coal be put Into a one-ton bin? The solution is a secret the trade is not at lib erty to divulge. There will be great doings In New York on the 17th of Ireland. President Roosevelt will be the guest of honor at the banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, winding up the festivities with a ball in Madison Square Garden. Prof. William I Hooper, head of the electrical engineering department of Tufts college, has been granted a sufficiently long leave of absence to study the problem of the protection of high voltage trans mission lines from the effects of lightning, A clever New York showman haled into court for rupturing the Sabbath, proved to he satisfaction of the court that an aero bat who hung from a trapeze by her teeth was merely giving a dental exhilinlon. That showman would shine In the legal profes sion. Activity in the spook market grows apace. A Chicago man Is trying to recover $1,500 In good money paid for a bunch of "spirit plc- ures" which proved to be shadow profiles. An Ohio woman wants $5,000 damages from trance medium who was unable to sum mon her departed friends. Prosperity Is playing everybody as a favorite. Seventeen students from the Argentine Republic arrived In New York the, other day They were sent to this country by he Argentine minister of Instruction and will be distributed among American uni versities for a period of study. Later they will return home and their government will have a claim on their services for two years In the branches to which they have I veil special attention during their stay in Uie United States. The young men are ons of lawyers, merchunts and land own ers. Only On Flag Mow. Baltimore .American. There ought to be no feeling over the return of flags captured In the civil war. There l only one flag for the whole na tlon now, to which every nation of the country Is loyal, and those returned are merely relics of a time that tried men's souIh, but reunited the whole nation more flrmlj' than ever by removing for all Unit the source, of constant friction and discord. Great Things Are the Simplest. Success Magaxlne. . The trouble with us is, that we look top high and too far away for. our chances. Wo forget that the greatest things are the simplest. In hunting for roses wt trample the daisies undr our feet. We are blind to he chances and blessings near us because we are looking so far away for them. K.verything dejienda upon tae power of the mind to see opportuni ties. It Is the eye that can see the chance, the pluck and determination to lay hold of It and wring from it every possibility that we lark, rather than th chance, "to make good. ' A Traee Mor I'ut In Bleep. Chicugo Chronicle, To sutiyfy the Japanese .miuUter In Washington the Btute department hus em phatically contradicted tho story recently printed that the Japanese minister had told the president what terms of peuce Japan woulcj cunslder and that the presl deal had commurated them to t!ie Rus ulun government Without being urked to do so. The whnhf story was o palpublv false that nobody who did not regard both the Japanese minister snd the president us demented paid the slightest attention to II. However, the denial may serve to mil Min ister 'i'skahlra right at hum. WILD ALARMS FALL, FLAT. Soand Business Interests I'ndlstnrbed by Trust Cries. Chicago News. Perhaps the most notable and significant event of the opening weeks of 1905 haa been the Inauguration of a definite movement looking to the government supervlnlon of great aggregations of capital. Cme branch of congress has passed a bill authorising the regulation of railway freight rates by a federal commission. Steps have been taken toward the prosecution of the Beef trust. The house of representatives has adopted resolutions ordurlng an Investiga tion of the Standard Oil company. Similar investigations are promised of the Cnlted States Steel corporation and the Tobacco trust. Altogether the securities of corporations upon which It Is proposed to place some measure of restraint aggregate in valuu many billions of dollars. With such laws In contemplation it might not have been considered surprising If fur a time, at least, there were signs of alarm and de pression In the murket where these securi ties are bought and sold. On the contrary, us Senator Depew pointed out in a speech in New York the other evening, the mar ket, so fur from being depressed, is strengthening. Rome of t lie railway mag nates have raised sn outcry about "ecu flscstlon" and the ruin of their properties, but apparently Inventors and speculators nee no signs of ruin. Instead of taking alarm they are bidding up prices. 1 That tlio stuck market, usually so sensi tive to every menace, should be improving at this time, Is certulnly suggestive, Theru is at least wane justification for the as sumption that the majority of American investors feel that tliu proposed measures of government control aru exceedingly un likely to do any damage to legitimate prop erty lutereits. Regulation niuy cut down illegitimate profits and protect the con sumer against monopoly. The property valuu will still he there uiul the profits from it will 'till be ampin to tempt capital with the prospect of a rich return. mm f! SKHMOXS BOII.KI) DOWN. Little sins are never alone. No one can be thoughtlessly kind. Nothing Is holy unless It Is helpful. Tombstones always behave themselves. A stiff man Is not always a straight one. There are no promises without precept, Good cheer Is often better than cold cash You cannot tench where you do not touch. Brooding over troubles only hatches ou new ones. Folks who often burn out a fuse sit often In the dark. All honest doubt has Its destination In some great truth. The best amen to a sermon la the one that comes on Monday. No man who is doing good work Is sorry to hear the Master coming. It Is a noble thing to die, but it Is usually harder and more noble to live. It .gives a man a moral squint to look more at condition than at character. When all creeds can be put In one casket it will be because they are no longer alive, Many men do nothing because they de spise the little things and despair of the great ones. Some people think they are dodging the devil when they are only playing peek a-boo with him. There Is something wrong with the re ligion that cannot stand transplanting from the cathedral to the kitchen. Chicago Trt buue. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PILPIT. Washington Star: Rev. Madison C. Peters says Americans arc the most profane peo' pie In tho world. The doctor should under stand that congress is not In session all the time. Boston Transcript: The revivals In Louis ville during the last fortnight are declared to have converted ,500 persons, and so are, called the "most remarkable religious meet ings held in America during the last fifty years." Sixty-five hundred converts In Louisville? We should say so! Philadelphia North American: How would you fuel if all the clergy of a great city representatives of the Christian people in community of more than 1,250,000 human beings were to gather together to pray for you were to spend two hours In prayer that you be guided by honest principles and actuated to do your plain duty? Philadelphia Press: The greet Lutheran cathedral dedicated in Berlin this week adds another to the successful and well considered instances In which the. emperor of Germany haa placed both himself and the German empire In tho new relation which he seeks to occupy toward that broad world of German and English speech which springs from the fruitful center of Saxon Institutions about the Baltic. By every such attempt the broad current of senti ment and sympathy iu the United States Is profoundly affected. A CAISE OK DIVORCE. Mischievous Effect of Pretended Ex- pertinents In Household Economy, Philadelphia 1edger. It is strange that those who are en gaged In a war on the divorce evil have failed to note among the frequent causes of domestic trouble the newspaper communi cations and magazine articles on how to live on an Insignificant sum a week. These are apparently beneficial publications, but In fact they are to the last degree mis chievous. It Is the more exasperating be cause every experienced housewife knows they are untrustworthy. Perhaps an occa sional woman with a mania for literary eminence presents the result of an actual effort at extreme economy, starving her self and family to make a magazine arti cle, but most of the reputed experiments are fictitious and probably the work of divorce lawyers whose nefarious purpose It Is to stimulate their wicked business. These articles quote prices not to be found in the local markets and prescribe a menu which would exhaust at a slnglo dinner the entire week's appropriation. Sometimes they mislead the reuder by arithmetic as erroneous as is that of the "lightning cal culator," whoso answer to a long example Is prompt cnougli to astonisn tne speciuiur. Also this answer is wrong. It Is not the housewife who is deluded by the perfidious publications, dui ine pro- ider. He reads them with absolute con fidence in their accuracy snd practicability, and commends them to his wife as a guide wealth. "What other people can d.j In the way or noueenoin economy. no affirms, "we can do." He figures the cost of living on the hasla of these alleged ex periences and sees the way to a neat sum in bank at the end o fthe year, and that without limiting himself to cheaper cigars. Naturally, when the wife falls to achieve the Impossible, he charges her with reck less extravagance. The injustice rankles In her bosom, wrangling and recrimina tions follow, she packs a suit caso and goes home to mother, while he listens to the siren voice of the divorce lawyer. The faithful wives who deny themselves necessaries in order to keep down the cost of living would contemplate with de moniacal pleasure the electrocution of the mischievous authors of these pretended ex periments In economy. Iney are the belp less victims of their husbands' trust In printed figures. If we are to fight the di vorce evil with laws instead of public sen timent, then a statute forbidding tho pub lication of articles on how to live on less should be an early 'enactment. DOMESTIC PLEAS AM HIES. "That fellow Rllnklns is a very pre sumptuous young man. What was he doing when I entered the parlor?" "He was lust rfvlnir me n liiami In o,. Jitsu, papa. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Young Feathertnn If your oa rents, still oppose our marrying whv can't we elope? Miss Sharpe-Clilnn It would never do In the world. Everybody who knows us both would at once say that I suggested It Chicago Tribune. Bessie I low on enrth did lliv 17.1 ... gaged to Miss Shadyslde? Tom Not on earth, but on ieo H r.v,l said, "Lean on me. Miss Shadyslde; I'll support you." Puck. "No.-Mr. Woodbv. I ninnnt ho mik ari. but I will be a daughter to vou!" ' "Great Scott! Miss nn I'm nnf t i,t as all that, you know!" "N no, but you see. you're tha onlv non. per I've had for several weeks. " Cle vefand Leader. , Tom I wish that for mire In wim ltr would take me seriously. Allce-Oh, Tom, this is such a surprise to me! But if you really mean It yes I will marry you and you will find papa In the library! Somerville Journal. "That'll do. Marin-" ha bpM o . .1 had talked for five minutes without a break. 'I admit that I've squandered money foolishly, but I don't want any cur tain lecture about it." "Curtain lecture?" she exclaimed. "John Henry, you'll find this is only a curtain raiser!" As she proceeded to demonstrate. Cht cao Tribune. Friend Well, vour old love has nurrlsH your rival. I see. Discarded Suitor (fiendishly) Stfeat h ! I've got even with him! They will quarrel the first woek, fight the second and sepa rate forever In the third. Friend Great snakes! What have you done? Discarded Suitor I Drescntod th hrlila wlih one of those fluffy, red-eyed, snarling, barking pet dogs. New York Weekly. DOVT NAG. S. R Klser In Chicago Record-Herald. 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