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'ate f Nebraska, Doug'as County, si.
I 'wight Willlnms. circulation mansger of
The Hee Publishing Company, being duly
sworn saj that 'he actual number of full
and complete copies rf The Itallv, Morning,
evening arid Sunday Been printed during
the month of December. 1310, was as fol
io :
1 43,870
2 44,000
I 43,tS0
4 43, KO
S 43,670
43 43"
" 4,2C0
43.33.
4a,G6"
10 43,400
11 44,380
n 43,580
1 43,400
14 14,330
15 4.1,970
IT 43,10
1 44,830
It . 43,530
10 43.GC0
tt 43,640
22 44,300
21 44,830
24 44.690
2f 44,350
1 44,400
7 44,350
2g 45,330
29 43,990
0 43,580
II 43,540
U 43,060
Total 1,355,750
Returned Copies 11,483
Net Total 1,344,887
iJili.V Aveiago 43,364
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fcobacrlhrra Iravlaar etty tem
porarily ahnnld kart The Be
mailed to them. Addreaa will b
chanced aa often aa reqaeated.
Legislative refrain:
hero seen "Shally?"
lias anyone
I'lothcH may not make a man,
they Eometimps break him.
but
This wealher will at least serve to
repress the early spring poet.
Folks may forgot how Senator Hev
eridgo cHme in, hut he is Bure going
out like a lion.
Ohio bousls of an odorbvss onion.
I'robably a scheme to offset the aroma
of Adams county.
llaltimoic is accusing some of its
colored population of sending a Black
Hand letter. Possibly. .
The church must not Imagine 'that
tirneral Apathy is In command of His
Satan it- Majesty's forces.
The Hcp'b Junior Birthday book will
lie found on Sunday on the children's
pa;e In (lie household section.
Before determining the success of
our world peace project, let's wait un
til somebody starts something.
Tlie llous-ton Post writes on "Bad,
Teeth r.n Fnemy to llood Morals." The
brent h that poes with them is usually
vol se.
Now that the stock yards and pure
beer bills are in, the legislature may
proceed witlithe real business of the
.Now, it remains to be seen what
rtlVit the warning of Colonels Harvey
and W'atteison will have on the un-
terrifipd
Mill who say this is not a literary
age certainly could not have been get
linn the benefit of that -lO-cents-a-word
raic.
The thermometer registered 80 re
lently in Oklahoma City. Must have
had a hui time rejoicing over the exit
l llBhkell.
'I' lit; saddest feature of this piose
tut ion of Standard Oil is that Mr
Hot kelolle. s woid should have beeu !
brought into question.
It is to be hoped that the city coun
cil is gcttiux all the illumination on
tlie gas question that may be ueces
ary for intelligent action.
"I'xtry :
Sensation: AM about itV
Corbett Kay a. 'Lack of confidence and
worry beat .lefT." And Jaiues collects
tlie money for saying it. too.
cv of Mrs. Carrie Nation's ner -
ous collapse occasions no surprise.
I. Mug la a tempest of txcitemeut is
calculated to break down one's ner-
mis s5 stem.
tiovet hor Aliliich has u few banking
boitid jobs to give out that were not
tot. nied in the original reckoning, it
is sale to say, howevtr, that he will
hmo no trouble in finding willing
I a 1 1 iota
It is unfoi ttiuate. but not surpris
int. that folk find It difficult to recog
in c bandits lo whom they were uev er
in 1 1 mliu o(i ami onlv met lor a moment
n.cicr i li'cumstaiivt's discouraging lo
a ut bU itic.il
Fopulnr Choice of Senatois. j and, more than that, the realization of
The favorable repot t by a senntp'what mutual good will moans to all
committee on the proposed const it ti-j com rued. This Is no doubt what
tlnnal amendment for popular rhoiiojMr. Carnegie lias, in mind. Too many
of I'nlted States senators signals theilarse labor wars are uselessly pro
rapid culmination of the movement voked or romp from trivial causes. It
that ha had that object In view. Is well when men of Mr. CarppRie's
What ban brought about this chaiiEe
the senate, hitherto Invariably up
cored to such a
Ilan, is tinqiipjitloii-
ably the gradual accunnilation of reso
lutiona by state legislatures demand
ing constitutional convention to for
mulate and submit the desired aniend
mpnt under that section of the consti
tution which makes It mandatory on
congress to summon a convention
when three-fourths of the states join
In the demand.
The movement for popular choice of
t'nlted States Renators must not be
confounded with the so-called Oregon
plan or the initiative and referendum
or similar devices to circumvent rep
resentative government. On the con
trary, many of the advocates of the
popular choice of United States sen
ators, Including The Hee. which has
favored this reform year in and year
oat. take no stock In the new-fangled
schemes for direct legislation hatched
out in Oregon and Oklahoma, and
there Is a plainly discernible line of
demarcation between them.
The framers of the constitution had
before them as models the legislative
bodie of Europe, and particularly
that of Great Britain, most of which
consisted of two houses, one the pop-
ular branch and the other with hered-!
Ity membership. With no royalty or
nobility in the new republic, their
problem was to differentiate the house
and the senate so as to make one re
act quickly to popular sentiment and
the other serve as a check and bal
ance' for more careful consideration
and sober Judgment. Our Benate,
therefore, is made to reflect the equal
ity of the states rather than their pro-1
portionate population. The age quali
fication for United States senators
calls for greater maturity by five
years. The term of the senator is
three times as long as that of the
house member and the senate is a con
tinuous body, only one-third of its
membership being replaced every time
the house is completely renewed. But
while house members are directly
elected by their constituents, the sen
ators receive their commission indi
rectly through the legislature.
Other conditions might have been
prescribed with equal reason, al
though they were not. The majority
required for the election of senators
might have been increased to a two
thirds or three-fourths vote, service in
the lower house might have been de
manded as prerequisite to eligibility
In the upper house, the senators might
have been given life tenure the same
as the federal judges. ,
Popular choice of United States sen
ators, therefore, could effect only one
element of difference between the two
houses and would in no way put them
both on the same basis. It would
eliminate the legislature as a piece
of Intervening election machinery and
make responsibility to the people im
mediate and continuous, but the sen
ator would still look to the entire
state as his constituency, as against
the house member representing only
one congressional district and a frac
tional part of the stale. With popular
choice of United StateB senators the
senate as a body would still consist of
two senators from each state with
equal voice and vote; their terms
would be for six years, only one iu
three going out at a time; the mem
bership would be of mature age, and
the smaller numbers, as compared
with the multitude in the bouse,
would keep it a deliberative body.
So long as the senate Is made up of
equal representation from the states
and under the constitution no state
can be deprived of this right without
its own consent the senate will oc
cupy in dignity, power and influence
the predominating position in national
law making as much with popular
choice of senators as at present.
Mr. Carnegie on Strike..
Andrew Carnegie makes the sweep
ing assertion that nine-tenths of. the
strikes are due to employers' assist
ants. That Is lifting the onus from
the shoulders of the proprietor and
placing it upon those of his subordi
nates in a wholesale fashion. Possi
bly it is not a matter that can be so
definitely determined, but at any rate
the point Mr. Carnegie makes is worth
considering. He says that he as the
employer of thousands of workmen
; has not had a strike on his hands in
i twenty-six years. That, too, is a te-
markablo statement, but It is a matter
of record. And Mr. Carnegie adds
that he has never delegated to others
the responsibility of dealing with the.
i lftL,r question as affectinn his ein-
!
i If more employers would follow this
rule there would, doubtless, be fewer
strikes. It does not always follow
j that the employer's assistant iiiten-
1 t ionally precipitates trouble with the
men. but generally tie i not In a posi-
men, but generally he is not In a posi-
tion. really, to do wust Is expected of
him liv the men or renuired bv th..
proprietor. He may be charged withleiaM output Incorporated into t he
more, responsibility than he is clothed ' Record by the 1. h .-to-pi iut route.
with authority. This is potential of ' (' illier's is no doubt rip.ht In saying
ill results. Or, as is sometimes tliethiit the ( onurehsnian w iio w ants to j not the harbingers or agricultural de
case, be may not have the capacity keep in i !oae touch with his const it u-1 pi essions; tlie.v do not warn men
for meeting the trying Issues of a la- i nits by correspondence ami d ist ribu-j a w ay from the country as a place to
bor dispute. Possibly he iv obsessed tion of spoP( hes should not be penal- make money
with an exaggerated idea of 1 i posi-! ji d as acainM the congressman who I Sir Horace aeciiis to be right in in-
tion's importance, and this tnay stand
in his way of effecting a peaceful set-
i tlement
Rut the einplovrr. ti'.e M.rtti or nun
who actually pay the laborer his hire,
has both responsibility and autuoiiiv;
stamp gtvp hrst consideration io tnis
field of industrial pcarp. Failure to
do so would stultify his efforts for
world amity. It In a rase of rharlty
boEiniiinn at homo. Hut It will take
a mutual understanding and recipro
cal sympathy to bring It to pass.
Age Limit for Preachers.
Some of the religious journals have
deemed It necessary to raise objection
to a tacit rule of certain churches not
to call pastors over 45 years of age.
One paper denounces it as "foolish,"
and that seems a mild term to use.
Such a disposition on the part of a
church plays a shameless travesty on
consistency. In the first place, it very
wrongly presupposes the maximum of
church usefulness to be reached by or
before ii; that men under that age
are effective ministers, while all over
it are ineffective. In such a case the
ministry becomes an isolated profes
sion, for in every other law, medi
cine or the exclusive sciences the
period of preparation, counting early
practice as part of it, is little more
than completed by that time. Is the
art of successful preaching so much
easier to master? Is the theory car
ried to its logical conclusion not some-
thing of a cheapening of the gospel?
The average evangelical church to
day is pleading with young men of in
tellect as well as courageous heart to
come into its pulpits and complaining
because so few comparatively heed the
call. But what does the church oITer
them? The glory of preaching the
gospel? Yes, but the church has
found that that alone is not filling its
pulpits with the kind of men who can
best glorify that gospel and attract
thinking men. The ministry is, after
all, pretty much of a human calling,
because the exigencies of the times
make it so. Then, we give this, says
the church: The privilege of winning
souls, with less opportunity for keep
ing yourself and your family in com
fortable circumstances, and almost
none for laying up a competency for
the future and, at the age of 45, when
you should be Just entering the zenith
of your useful period of service, we
put the ban upon you and class you
with the undesirables.
The average man who enters the
ministry , completes his seminary
course, after leaving college, not
earlier than 26, if as early. Many
are not out and ready for a church
before 30, and some not before 33 or
34. But' place the average at 28. Un
der the 45-ypa4" limit the man has sev
enteen years of "desirable" activity
before him. And after that he is su
perannuated and must take what mer
ciful suffrance chooses to give him.
Such a rule tends to destroy the dig
nity of the ministry and men; to in
vite ridicule; to crowd superiority out
and bring mediocrity into the pulpit;
to give the meat to the world, the
husks to the church.
No wonder the religious journals
have arisen to smite such a tendency!
The church will wield the influence it
should when it elevates its ministry,
its leaders; when it treats them as
well as the outside world treats its
"preachers." It would naturally seem
that if there is a vocation anywhere
that calls for years of seasoned mind
and judgment, of ripened experience,
that (ailing is the miuistry. . . . .
In Defense of the Frank,
if anyone started to bunt for a de
fense tif the congressional frank the
last place be would look would be to
Collier's Weekly. But here we have
Collier's protesting against Its curtail
ment or abolition. The fact that
some members abuse the frank and
its purpose by using it on what ought
to be shipped as freight Instead of by
mail it pushes aside as comparatively
inconsequential. "There should be
no limitation," declares Collier's, "on
the liberal distribution of letters from
congressmen, and even speeches and
extract from the Congressional Rec
ord. At the worst, even when Chaun
cey Depew floods the state of New
York with his platitudes, It does no
harm The bulk of it is educational
In the highest degree and tends to
promote interest in the affairs of the
government. There are better ways
to meet the demit in the Pestofflce de-
! partinent than by cutting off the con-
i gressional franks."
That the congressional frank should
have such a valiant champion Just at
the moment it seemed on the point of
being put "hors de combat" is proof
thai there inii.-t be some good in it
I and that our congressmen have been
grossly undervalued as popular edu-
I 'aUrs- So,,,e f,,lkS n,,K,u ttl,nk "Vcry"
I thing purporting to oe educational
tiiould have free run of the mails
1 whether printed in the Congressional
j Record or nut. but the answer to this
1 is easy that ambitious authors
; bhould first rot themselves, elected to
; should Fist r,-t themselves elected
: cuiipn ss or make arrangements witnitliat lor me eam me aiue ui our
ih.ir i nn u rcss men to have their lit-
ignore: and tlii'u s the people at home.
Hut if ihe posiace expense should
proiierly be borne (by the government
it !,(! onulit not lo In (harmed
uuaiu.-i i he Po-io'lice department and
li!l into iis delicti, but should be met
by appropriation on account of con
gress the same as the appropriation
for congressional salaries, printing,
stationery, soap and bay-rum.
Mrght Doet Not Make Right.
Most people admit that with all the
barbarity of warfare there have been
many righteous wars. Issue have
arisen, which, in the dispassionate
Judgment of wise men, could have
been settled In no other way than a re
sort to arms. As good and wise a man
as Abraham Lincoln, much as be de
plored the civil war, came to believe
that without it, the issue between the
north and south could never have
been finally and effectually settled
and time seems to vindicate his view.
War in itself may never be righteous,
except as It becomes the power for
righting wrong, for destroying evil,
for substituting good for had. And it
is Justified only in such cases.
The maxim that "might does not
make right" constitutes a most potent
argument against the principle of war
as means of settling international dis
putes. It is strange that in this propa
ganda for world peace it is not more
frequently urged. It is easily possible
for the lesser and weaker nation to
be right and the stronger one wrong,
but it does not often transpire that
the weaker nation becomes the con
queror. It was in the case of Japan
and Russia and therefore we seem to
have the verity of this truism demon
strated. But history records compara
tively few such examples. Even grant
ing that in every case the outcome
was right, might did not make It so;
it is dangerously liable to produce the
opposite result.
When the day of disarmament
conies and nations shall "beat their
swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning hooks," this prin
ciple will have become fully recog
nized. Men see it today, but not
enough of them see It to the exclusion
of leas righteous considerations. When
all realize that war is no guarantor of
equity and Justice, the world will give
up war. But when that -day actually
comes we shall be much nearer the
millenium that we are now.
' . Housewives, Look Out
The Porch Climbers' association
has reduced the' task of getting Into
the choice corners of homes in Cleve
land to a simple basis. It selects
some of its more prepossessing ap
pearing members to make rounds of
homes during the day under the guise
of representing telephone or gas or
electric light rompaniea, sent out to
make inspections or repairs. Of
course, with a card from such corpor
ation the. agent haa no difficulty in
gaining admittance. Then, once In
the house, he finds It a very Blmple
matter to locate all the means of en
trance and egress, also the corners
where valuables are most likely to.be
kept. In fact, he makes a chart, In
his mind, of all these things, and
when he gets back to "headquarters"
reduces them to writing, forming i
record which is kept by the index sys
tern.
Thla must be much less hazardous
to the porch climber than the old way
and less annoying to the householder.
Of course, there Is no reason to sup
pos that this modern method is ta
plicable alone to Cleveland. It might
be adapted to the exigencies of any
other city. Housewives, therefore,
who would like to have their homes
robbed after the latest and most ap
proved manner will kindly follow in
structions and admit to their homes
every stranger who presents himself
on any pretext with "work to do." It
will save trouble when the association
sends its man around in the "wee
sma' " hours to complete the Job.
Having a chart of the house, showing
Just where everything is kept, he may
be able to enter and leave with a gen
erous loot without annoying the fam
ily to the extent even of awaking it.
If the housewife was engaged Just
when the visitor arrived and did not
care for his services, since all her
utilities were in good repair and none
had been reported, of course, that
might serve to arouse her suspicions.
Country Life and Farm Values.
Sir Horace Plunkett's book on "The
Rural Life Problems in the United
States" is an instructive treatise of a
subject on which he is an authority
and in which Americans are deeply in
terested. He urges the interdepend
ence of town and country, though ad
mitting it is less obvious, but not less
real, today than it was during
the era of ihe local market. Of this
general problem he s-ays:
Hut the timln consideration I wish to em
phasize throughout . that the problem
under review U mural and hocihI far more
economic., human rather ihan ma
terial. Young men are surely not leaving
or refusing to go to American farms
today because they lack in material
opportunities. TIip lure of the city is
not nieiely the jingle of coiu. Sccie-
to,tary non ie. jim. Ku nifj
: farms was increasing at the rate of
j ;',. Dio.iifi.i a year The crops of those
farms last year came to -ni. thing
I like :.(MJ0.uuo,uoii. These signs are
fisting that it is a soc ial
i more than an economic.
a human,
material
problem that confronts ie. And that
is precisely the foundation on
which former President Roosevelt con
structed big w hole Country Life ( otu-
mlasion plnn, an achievement which
he pronounces the capsbeaf of his pub
lic services. It is the theory on which
we are working in many portions of
the country. Amerli ans have aw akened
to the necessity of making country life
more attractive, of bringing the com
forts of the city nearer to the farm.
Unless this plan works out success
fully the problem will change and be
come more economic than social, more
material than human.
The obligations of citizenship are
cdmmcn and the town can help the
country murh more than thi country
ran 'help the town. This Irish student
of American life goes so far as to
assert that we "cannot hope for any
lasting national progress," so long as
we neglect the rural life. This neglect
means a waste of energies and re
sources intellectual, moral, human
which the nation cannot afford. In
times of greatest stress and crises the
nation has drawn heavily upon the
country. It will need to do so again.
It must do so constantly to thrive.
But it cannot dwarf those resources
by neglect and expect to reap large
benefits from them. In the transition
that has come over our rural life in
the last few decades, the town has
almost lost touch with the country. It
knows little of the country and the
country comes to look askance at the
sincerity of the town. The breach
must be filled so that town and
country can go forward together to
ward greater happinness and pros
perity. What about a law to compel all
charities depending on public contri
butions to report their financial and
other operations and work under the
supervision of some public authority?
Charities that are financed on the
square and doing their best to fulfill
their mission have nothing to lose and
much to gain by such a law. But
charities that are run simply as a
blind to give officers and agents a llv
lng out of other people's generosity
may be counted on to object.
The local superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon league put in an applica
tion for appointment to the position of
county storekeeper, but got no consid
eration from the democratic majority
of the board. But he doubtless never
really expected to land a job to get
which he would need votes of men
carried into office by Mayor "Jim."
Thus far no lty which has adopted the
commission plan has shown a deriie to give
It up. St. Paul Dispatch.
Not as a knock, but to keep history
straight, Sacramento, the very first
city to adopt the plan, not only
showed a desire to give it up, but after
fifteen years of trial did give it up.
It Is to be hoped the rumor that a
number of Chinese have been smug
gled Into the country will disclose no
connection with Wu Ting-fang's re
form in cutting off the queues.
One of the little story books quotes
Santa Claus as saying that he gave
little George Washington that hatchet.
Glad to find Old Santa owning up to
it, even at this late day.
A Schenectady man awoke to find
an embalmer working over him. It
must be a slow town where under
takers cannot tell the live ones from
the dead ones.
Karnlnaa a. Yearulnaa.
Ioulville Courier-Journal.
Often as not the water In the stock
marks the difference between the earnings
and the yearnings of the soulless corpora
tion. Coin ponndlna; Kconoin j .
Cleveland Leader.
Tlie high cost of living seems to have one
very important Vompensatlon. A physician
says that those who eat the least stand
the best chance of avoiding pneumonia.
Dividends Are Safe.
Indianapolis News.
That fine of IU3.766, which the Standard
haa Just paid for accepting rebates will
hardly have any appreciable effect on the
company's 40 per cent dividends, however.
Cashable Qualities of Nerve.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Peary does not even become generous
enough to give Ir. Cook credit for the
possession of the rare genius which It
seems to us he exhibited in his shinty to
get cash for his confession.
rnblto lias a Riant tn Ivinnr.
Baltimore American.
These seem to he the last (lavs of
secrecy In the public service. The feeling
is growing that the public, has a light to
know how Its own business Is being con
ducted, and the temptations of aecie.y
are too many and obvious to nwl comment
on that score. The "open door" will he Ihe
watchword of the near futute.
agoe Suspicion Outlined.
Indianapolis News.
Perhaps it Is true, as I e l.tun ev Nicnll
asserts that the toli.uco trust has made
no Increase In prh-es to consumers, hut
aren't the packag.s somewhat miaUir than
they Ufced to he.' And then one has a va:ue
feeling that thcic was an Inere.ise In price
when the war stamp lax viae Imposed and
that Ihe price wa not pui ha
to oriyliuil
figures when the lax was leiiiowl
o l ivuri lo 1. 14 it Breakers.
Buffalo Lxpress.
President Taft s stand for iail sentence
for weallhv violators of the law vvltl meet
w ith general spprobat i.in 1'ito s he sh vs.
are nothing to such ' riuilnals b'.J they
fed themselves litelallv at lit.. Iv t) ilefv
the law and n.a.e ,i not.iin,- mote than
J' ''J,'.',, 7n ' sTi
I ,' , taken serious',.
j tent
ma se t lie
v.'u-ie ii
a di-ier-
I'lslou Kill" of ihe tlr.
Philadelphia R rd
Kv i'lenl Iv a low i cCe ,.f rule- nu'sr l,e(l'l1s 'I ifcH'.n
. t,llllSl.ed to fit as far H" lnv .; and sflei she i
,.sslhle Ihe priie Ip'es goiiipng imp ,,v . I c h ans tl" slal,
ete'.gni.v of Hie sir Tor- "ill he a n.aiti r 1 I'-1' '" Berlin or
of extreme liiftuulu ami of sow il.tei e I- I lame has m
nation Sunt i Irrig ira . lovevr. he lm- i iii.in, t" 'h"""1'
nieciialeiv done lo '- n Mi,
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People and Events.
VS rather note
We haNe eeen better
duvs."
Assurance aie ;!cn that Amrrli an dol
lars will he accepted at par value. In pav
ment for m-nu at th coronation festivities
In London.
The HrltiKh Ion! aonn to be annexed to
the houae of Uould Is two years younger
than the brides father and twenty-six
years older than the bride. How old Is
Vivian?
The new president of the steel trust
climbed from a day laborer to the top of
the ladder In thirty years. The danger of
falllnu off Is somewhat reduced since his
removal from PlttHbuiK.
Mere man waa upheld In Kansas City
and shamefully thrown down In New York j
In the matter of corking the fine points of
feminine hatpins. Now as heretofore the
west Is the chosen home ot man's uplift
and Independence.
A New Jersey statesman proposes a law
abolishing tips, and the New York Hoard
of Health warns travelers of the perils of
hiskbroomlng clothes In cars. If the
economical uplift keeps on. easy money
will become a lost graft.
The perversity of the weather and the
startling curves of the weather map are
easily explained. J. k'. Morgan and Henry
Watterson have deserted the country, W.
J. JJiyan is lost In the reaches of Texas,
and a dozen legislatures are turning the
wheels. Let's be thunkful, conditions might
be worse.
The arrest of Mrs. Margaret McCo'rmlck.
who Is held In New York on a charge of
bigamy, should have a peculiar Interest
for army men. According to the police
Mrs. McCormlck frequented army posts,
and at each post her custom was to pick
out the handsomest and richest non
commissioned officer and marry him.
Then she moved to another post and re
peated, it Is alleged. Her last victim, It Is
said, was Sergeant John A. McCormlck,
stationed at Fort Dupont, Fa.
There are almanacs and almanacs
astronomical, political, modlcul, and others,
but there la only one New York World
almanac. The edition for 111 surpasses
previous annual numbers to the extent
that human affaire have progressed in a
year, and every department of that great
storehouse of current information Is
brought down to the last minute of the
closing year. Two new features are added
'The Science of Aviation" and "The High
Cost of Living." To the busy man of af
fairs, no matter what be his activities,
there Is no more faithful friend to lean
on when memory balks than this mlnlaturo
encyclopaedia, which deserves first place
among the "six best sellers" of the year.
EFI'ECTIVB MIMSTKHIAI, ItKBlKK
What Happened to a Critic of Ser
mons In Georgia.
Chicago Inter Ocean.'
A dispatch from Kllijay, (la , tella of
a somewhat unusual rebuke administered
to a disturber of church services by the
Rev. James Klmmons, the Rev: Bunyan
Klmmons and the Rev. Judsun Klmmons.
three Baptist preachers who were engaged
in holding a meeting in a pountry church
at Pisgah.
It seems that the three preachers, who
happen to be brothers, had made them
selves extremely obnoxious to the moon
shining Interest in the neighborhood by
their constant denunciation of the business.
One of these moonshiners, Carl Llngerfell,
went so far aa to threaten them with death
in case they persisted in such nondoctiinal
observations. ,
Such quiet remonstrance, however, had
no effect on the preachers. They went
right ahead. Perhaps they were a little
more severe on the local liquor Industry
than they had previously been. Preachers
are, after all, but men, and threats are
Just as likely to stiffen up their resolution
as that of anybody eiHe. At any rate, Mr.
Lingerfelt concluded that a more public
protest was needed.
With this idea in mind, he proceeded to
Pisgah church and tried to break up the
meeting, according to the best accounts.
However, his plans were not wholly suc
cessful. "rhe three preachers simultane
ously drew their pistols, and when the
smoke had cleared way the would-be dis
turber of the services was found to be
both numerously allot and entirely killed.
No one else was Injured.
The preachers, we are further informed,
are now under arrest. But as they Insist
the shooting was done in self-defense, and
as the previous threats of Mr. Lingerfelt
and divers other circumstances seem to
bear out the theory, the chances of their
early release are no doubt extremely good.
WKAI.TII OF TIIK IMIKII STATM
I'rettj Fair homlnsv, hut ot What
tt Should Be.
Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Adam Keybert, our earliest and one of
our ablest statisticians, made the fintt
computation of our national wealth for the
year 17fl. Ills total was ,"i0.10o,(KiO. The
following figures are for the most part
deduced from the censuses and are In
creasingly trustworthy as modern times are
approached :
I.i72.noii.fl00
IMO .
1 frfm (mo.ono
imi;
I k jn
I KM
1MI
1S.-.0
I.XOri.nOO.OOO
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XTtM AVI.odi)
174 OD.tKV)
11 1M1.H.IHI0
"t.riM.nni rum
r,.oii(i omi on
4 i.fluO.OiM 0-K)
Mi g.lill.0ll
7T1 II l 'I.O
(4 (VlO.nOO.lkifi
in; csiO.os'i.os
IJ5.0i0.ii0ci.ojo
pel Increase r,f ahout
I 1KIUY
lviTi
li7')
I ISj
i w
1 IVC
po(i
l'4
1'tin (estimated!
Roughly, this is
t per cent per annum compounded an
nuallv. The result Is prodigious and a
lei-ltimiile source of nxllorial pride A ver
ges, capital per capita in 17'M was Jl,1 nd
with s iM.puiaii'n Increased to fr oix.(ien.
tlie average capital has grown to $1. .?.", per
ch pfla
Hire Is where Ihe application of c,,.
.water becomes salutarv. v,. have hit hen ;
I done as well as we know how but our in-
I ternational competitors have done hi tter
, , . . ,
Have we not neule, te.l liuc sour, -s of
I 1 " " b nine n Hiic'iiiion in
small matters? We have reiardul llm
crow in oi our national wealth : some
1 th ,t of Ihe treat mi r, lintels and bankers of.
I K nope In order to encourage Ihe growth I
of relatively minor Industries w e haw.
thanks to our mcdlacvsl navigation la'vs
and our prnte.-tive sv stem alin st toiailv
lost the c.h r ing trade of tie world which
we one- bill fair to cli'(ts
I
i I he i arrv lu truue ot t t . a t i ;ri i am al, ne
'brines per in an annual pr.ifit of $ I i.roi.ttc,,) '
lie' iicr aunuiu Her foreign Insurance.
I n 1 1 r in and ot h r I n 1 'n 1 1 la I
u..,. ..i
"o """"".
s .u.-er profit of Mo. ..,. a tear. 1 1,-r
fcuiiu hanking normoulv swells h' r
(off. is Her in goiiail'-n of foie'un hoinlx
to $s..i I'lliKii .er annum.
poc I. teil this profit 1 1,(. ,
hv pis' ill k: I he l, I. Is In i
V ui.-t'U u,i ii
V nea i I $. ", i ii i i. .i i ;,. -
i and Holland V iuiIu 1
i t ,
P r, . nably 11 " i rofiiai I- In- 1
v.sle'l In foi.Ufcll i mi i pi l-es 'Iu'-h, loans
ami i li v 1 i ; . f , I aie so laitfiuc lalcn o !
II, liaile thai Ihe. si I , - t A I , t i.. 1 1 . repl'senl
sa 's of Kul"pcan in' c halidise. The foi -
I 1 And think up uunsiions lo pioikiiiiu
Hint-' of a shopkei pcr's police rattier thsniTu daddy when the iiisiit c omes nund.
elgn exchante business alone ef these
countries is worth more than almost nr
doaen of our petted Industries, which are
about aa virile a.s an adult fed upon pap
In piirs.liiR our present policy we de
lilieiMtelv withdraw from the latter source
of profile. Wp ere irvliiK to raise the gen
eral level of price In the country tn a.
figure where nobodv outside will buy from
from us at all. let us Invent machines,
economize labor. rtit hodljie business, or
hustle never so much.
The lime haa come lo consider these
things seriously and drop the mutual ad
miration business for a while There Is no
betier time thsn the present for reform
We must healn at the bottom. The cost of
living rent. food, luxes Is Inexcusably
high. Wh'ii wp lower these Items, labor
must moderate Its demands We must1
aty our activities and diminish our operat
ing expense, reform our currency and
banking systems, modernize our exchange
market, or tie content to drop behind the
progressively rich nations.
Our growth In national wealth of 3li per
rent per annum compares with ratio for
(ireat Hrltaln of 5 per cent, to say nothing
of France.
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
A good man only punishes when he dare
not pardon.
The world never forgets those who for
get themselves. mr-"
Love for the truth oflen means liking for "J
my own noilone
A good many who are saving
ought to rash up.
"cheer up"
The more you think of money the more
you miss true riches.
It takes more than pious wishbones to
make moral backbone.
Most of our thorns get at us In our at
tempts to sleep on roses.
Life is all wasted when every today Is a
funeral over yesterday.
It Is not what you say to men but what
you are to men that counts.
it is always much easier to rewrite a
creed than to keep an ellcy clean.
It's no use lauding recording anseN if
you're afraid of a business auditor.
The graces of character grow not through
special efforts but In ordinary du'les.
Wiien the church acts like a circus Ihe
side shows always swallow the main tent.
H Is betier for the preacher to know to
day's' children than all the church fathers.
The men who want to wind a'l the
world's clocks seldom want to go lo work
by any of them. Chicago Tribune.
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.
New York Tribune: With Mrs. Eddy's
works In the ship libraries, will the men of
our navy studv the giving of absent treat
ment to hostile fleets, or will they consider
hostile fleets mere "errors" which are lo
be disregarded?
Brooklyn Eagle: The Bev. Dr. YounK
pastor of the Bedford Presbyterian church,
would have young women Invite young mn
who call Sunday evening to accompany
them to church. Nothing better could be
thought of to teat earnestness, but In cases
of uncertainty discretion will prompt the
young women to go slow perhaps sofa and
no farther.
Philadelphia Record: An HngHsh bishop
remarked that the boys Were being very
badly taught, but added that the girls
would never find it out. In sn inverted
form the consolation may be applied to Ihe
discovery that the girls of Wellesley spell
poorly. The boys at. Harvard will never
discover their Illiteracy If we may trust the
exposures of the lack of Kngllsh training
on the part of students at Harvard and
other institutions of the higher learning
for young men.
Bt. Louis Republic: The Rev. 'Billy"
Sunday conducted a revival six weeks in
duration at VYaterloo, Ja.; ha received for
his services $8,400. Mr. Henry E. Burgess
of Mercer, III., has been compiling statis
tics of Mr. Sunday's gains. He finds that
twenty-seven out of the fifty-five towns iu
which he has conducted services since H"0
have contributed to him 1155,000. This is
$15,500 a year and more than $5 70) from
each community; if the twenty-eight tow
whose contributions are not reported
raised a beggarly thousand apiece the total
Income of the evangelist his been upward
of $18,300 a year fur the decade.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
Husband You never kiss me except when
you want money.
Wife Well, isn't that often enough'.'
Hmart Set.
"1 say, Llxzle, Is your steady coinpanv
reliable?"
"Aa reliable as the day."
"Humph! Sounds like he was something
of a trust company." Baltimore American.
"Jane has a new engagement ring. Do
you know the man'."'
"Guess so. Anyway, I know ihe ring."
Cleveland i'lain Dealer.
tc
uriuus marriage, wasn't It?"
"How curious?"
"The bride was given feway. and the sir's
are saying that the groom threw himself
away." Chicago Tribune.
"Oh. she's all right, onlv her clothfs
don't fit her."
"What a mercy." Life.
Mr. Rrlggs Here's sn article tuv dear, a
verv Interesting article. In which a prom
inent doctor says that a certain cure for
nervouaness In women Is alienee coinplr'.e
silence.
Mrs. Briggs ( promptlv) -i ll bet anvthlns
sonie fool of a man doctor wroie that j
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Mrs. Sage Look how different the fate
of these two sistere. K Mi llv married and
became a miserable wife.
Miss (iiggle-How hard to bear'
Mrs. Ssge-ller sister Jane took vv .iniuic
be her fate sncl remained sn old msld
Aliss (iiKKle How unheal n hie ' -Baln-luoie
American
"When Dustlii Stas was n ho he wont. I
work like a slave enrrvinw: whI i 1o tn
elephant." "Ves And now he worl-ts lust as hvd
carrvitiK diamond necklaces to opeis an n - -ers."
Washington Stsi
DAB S LONG BOW.
.1. M Lewis in Houston l'ol
Tf M ,,ie how much w,u love me dad "
I Said iii.v wee babe and climbed up n'"''
! Im mi lap and snuggled down.
And fir awav across the town
,,,, (iked out across MKlit
r rotu oiner cimihkcn iiriKin
. "n coi wneie names pi
, Anil romp and swing and laud, a I clay.
"Tell me how much v mi lo,e me
ml
Thin I pret nclcd to be sad
! And said I must eai supper now.
I And then I've got to milk i In- row.
i'lu n I must rurl up In a heup
And Kt a good old -fashioned ship
.-o when the sun lU-hls up the ski.
t I can v1pe sleep out of III, e,-s
And I V woik III town chii wend
I To earn the nicl.c Is thai von spend
Whv. dad'
she
sa id ,v it h
ruffled brow,
I "I'm astlll win lo tell me n
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c , '.' , ,.,,. itl .,, a. at
Bight l,v the window liutuvin' me!
, ' 'H " still as I can he.
I Will, I II sll neie .i-isi as im.
1 1,, in. -I lo ', lines, ilail I will
I in, I cm ic told me and ar through.
Holiest I, i uoouncs IB'I I'leas do.
V u.i th. ii I sii ,gg-e, her up tight
A ml h.i Kl If I should talk all nlghl.
ml thi n loiiioi iow talk all dm ,
Talk I'll all time had passed asc.
If iihi i ta'fc io vou about
I- nil a'l linitfiiage was ncnn out.
And i.n'il I had grown grav and pa
I ,1 not Imr i "Id von half I he tale "
Ami ihen she snuggled to me glad
Ami rani "Vim do talk silly, eladU"
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