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18 THE OHA1IA DAILY I1EK: SUNDAY, MAKC1I in, 1002. Tim Omaiia Sunday Per R ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. trams, or Bt-BBCRIPTION. Dally Be, (without Sunday), on, Year..ll.M nt - hen Exra P. Savage over bis alg lIIy Be, and Sunday. Una Year J W t x. . fc. Uluatrated lie, On, tttr 1 ' ; I Twentieth century rarmer, on, Tear., l oo DELIVERED BT (.AKKIin. D.llf B, (without BunJy).r copjr ,lc E!'i'.?t?-iln.,id;8ui"1',,,l',r we.1::15S Evening Bei (without Sunday), per wMk.loc wV""..lV:r. Complaint, of iireguiarttia i """TYrl nnuid b, aaarei sed to City Circulation Department. -v OFFICES. Tli YliitlHtna- South omaha-city Hail Building, Tw,n- rotTMrpcarl Street. ' chicag-o-iMO unity UD- WaTb?noniPFounen'th Street correspondence. torlal matter should be addressed: Omaha communications relating to nu Bee, Editorial Department. Bu,'ine,sitt,r. and remittance, should b, addressed: Th, Be, Publishing company, nrUITTiNCBfl. Remit by dralt, xpre or postal order, (syable to The Be, Publishing Company. payable to The Be, Publishing company. Only I-cent stamps accepted In payment ot mall acoounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. TUB BJEK BUBLISHl.Nti COM PANT. BTATEMENT OF CIRCU1ATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, m.: Ueorge B. Tsechuck, ,crtary of Th, Be, Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that th, actual number ot full and complete copies ot Th, Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Be, prfuUd during th, mouth ot February, 19W. waa as foi- lows: 1 80,100 t so,sso S SO,5JIO 4 so,rao 1 80.4MO .80,040 1 80,1110 1 80,800 t 80.2SO 10 80,100 11... 80.34C U... 80,880 U 80tl0 M 80,480 16 14 17 1 1 J0??? so.ioo 8o,sto "i"' I 20 n!!!.'!!!"!!!o,iso aoao tt 8o,iao so.loo U 8O.470I Total 4T4o Lee. unsold and returned copies.,.. 1Q,14 Nat total aalas 8sr,sie OU UM I N,t dally avarare Stt.oaa GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my nraa'ence and sworn to jfor, m, this 28th djj ""J v before i 1901. (Seal.) Notary Public The American consul at Lyona, France, has refused to pay taxes, and be Is not an Omaha man either. The census bureau will continue In uninterrupted operation, but It will not be permanent officially until next July. Congressman Loud of California has been living up to his name quite fre quently in the recent debates la con gress. Havln braved a three-dav reoentlon In, Chicago, General Funston is doubt- less ready to go back to the firing line for a rest 1 With the rural delivery mail carriers fully protected by civil service regula- tlons, the city delivery carriers may rest assured against attack on their I tatua. . I Colonel Bryan seems determined to drive Senator German Into an offensive and defensive alliance with ex-Senator Hill on the plan of a political commu nity of Interests. Americans In London are soon to have a club of their own which will be as exclusive as any of the great English clubs In that city. This Is carrying the American Invasion to the limit From the preponderance of the sugar question, this congress must be in a "sweet session" as distinguished from the "long sessions" and the "short ses sions" recorded In our parliamentary history. If the distinguished nun rtr.trn rt aervo on tha local Jury panel at $2 per oay minx ueir time is worth more money they might call in the Civic fed eration arbitration committee to settle the differences. Successive postponements of Presl dent Roosevelt's nmmluxl visit' rn Charleston ought to make bis presence all tha more appreciated when he finally puts In an appearance aa the guest of the southern exposition. Applicants for dog licenses are com-1 pelled to give the description and breed of the animal to be protected by the tag. Borne dogs may be easy to class- lfy, but the majority would come under the class of simply dog. If those dressmakers who want to or-1 ganlse Into a trades union embracing the whole country only take the mil- liners In with them, those after-Easter to that of the state courts In the punlsh bllls will add another cipher to the fig-1 ment of the crime of train robbery. In urea that used to ornament the checks required In payment The authorities of Minnesota have de- elded that the paroled Younger brothers are legally dead and consequently neither of them can" marry, Presum - ably, if they should violate some law. It would be necessary to resurrect them In order to punish them. Senator Jones of Arkansas, who Is stHklng a re-election, pleads the statute of limitations on the cotton bale trust charge. As the trust Is still In opera- tion and the senator is still connected with It the court which in this case Is tha public, la apt to consider It a con - tlnuous transaction. Tha banks now propose to go Into the money order business in competition with tho government and express com - panic. - It took the banks a good many years to discover that a system of ex - change at a reasonable pries waa a profitable business, Perhaps th fact that th postal money order Is a step - ping stone to postal savings banks may hav something to do with th present sudden deslr to extend Uoaa to the public. sccommoda vonnxon satagm asd ivttoh browx As to nf personal differences be tween F.xra r. Savage of Custer county and M. A. Brown of Buffalo county, the cltlsene or J.ebraska bar no concern. ""i " . dresses an open letter to M. A. Frown, editor of the Kearney Hub fof the spe .,, nrnna nf tii.tlfrln tha nnrdnn - ' ' tJl ... Unters tbe domain of state politics and incomes a subject for public discussion. Governor Savage calls attention to the fnct that thousands of dollars of state funds deposited by the state treas urer were lost by the failure of banking houses of Kearney during the panic. One of the banks, be charges, had a $0, 000 state deposit at the time It failed and among Its assets notes and obligations o( Editor Brown amounting to almost $14,000. When tbe receiver undertook to realise on some of these assets be was unable to find a purchaser who wouid tfre anywhere near the face value. With these facta as a basis, the governor submits these questions to Editor Brown, "Who Is the real culprit, tha man who deposited the money in the bank lawfully and presumably In good faith or the man who borrowed It from the bank and never paid It back? Yon are not the only Individ ual whose attitude on the question Is to minds of honor amaslng and re proachfuL There- are many others who contributed In tbe same way to this mle- guided man's downfall who apparently grt junt as vigorous In denouncing the ATonMaA nf plmniv as Wftii are. e Morally you directly owe this money to . . the bank and indirectly to tbe state, it ,ou wj,0 borrowed the money could not . . . . ... , 16 , 80,300 uu uu- VnJ vuia nuai ;uu - 2!!!""'."!!o,o70 rowed, bow Is the bank going to be pre fl ao,D6o nBrui to nav or how do von eznect Mr. Bartley to pay?" r regnonse to these auestlons. Hal fnr admlts p, obligations to tBe Kearney National bank amount- .... lng to about 4,000 while tbe other loans were made by the publishers of the Hub all secured by mortgage on city and farm property regarded -as ample un der ordinary business conditions. But when these properties were driven to forced sale they brought a compara l tlvely small figure. This explanation should bo satisfac tory to Governor Savage n exculpating Editor Brown from any culpability for the loss sustained by the state which ! should have recovered on Its depository bond If reasonable vigilance bad been exercised by the state authorities. But the governor persists In labor ing under tbe delusion that Mr. Bartley was a misguided man whose downfall 9 duo to the financial distress following 10 tne wttKe or lne ana general business depression. The governor seems to be oblivious of the fact that the crime for which Bartley was con- vlcted was not the failure to collect money lost In failed state depositories but for money deliberately embesaled from the state treasury. The 20-year j penitentiary sentence Imposed upon Bartley was for converting to own use the proceeds of a state warrant arawn for $181,000 and so part of these steal Ings has even been disgorged although Bartley has expended thousands of dol lars for lawyers, ball bonds, and pardon petitions. The man whom the governor considers a misguided martyr is known to the people to have looted the treas ury of hundreds of thousands of. dollars for lawless speculation and political I loans he never expected to see repaid, Governor Savage forgets that the press bas Its duty and function as well as the executive, Mr. Brown as a cltl sen would have a right to repress bis personal feeling or resentment over the extension of executive clemency to a great . embessler but as editor It was W" dutJ to voice the sentiment of tbe community for which his paper assumes to speak. That be baa honestly voiced this sentiment nobody will gainsay. Had be failed to do so for any personal reason, be would have Justly merited the withdrawal of public confidence from the paper be edits and destroyed ,tB Influence as a molder of public opln- 10 SCPPRtSHlUN Or TRAIH ROBBEBT. The house Judiciary committee bas rerjorted favorably on the bill to sup- cress train robbery and doubtless tht measure will become law. It provides the death penalty for train robbers when death results to anyone on the train; otherwise imprisonment for from five to ten years. It Is not the purpose of tbe bill to deprive the state courts ot jurisdiction and if enacted into law I will not have that effect, but It will add the power of the United States courts I gome sections of the country the power Uf the state Is not sufficient for tbe rea son that the robberies occur near the I borders of a state In sparsely populated I districts and the guilty parties quickly I escape Into another state or territory. 1 Tha state where the crime was com I mitted feels no particular interest in I pursuing or searching for the criminals I and the state Into whrcn they escape ot course has no Interest in the matter, as I the crime was not committed within its I Jurisdiction. The result in many in I stances Is that the authorities ot the state in which the crime was committed watt for a large reward to be offered and so the crime goes unpunished and 1 the criminals escape. I Under the proposed law the authori ties of tho United States, reaching Into I all states and all territories alike, will I not be restrained by any question of 1 Jurisdiction and the marshals and dep- I uty marshals will feel at liberty to pur- 1 sue the criminals promptly wherever I they go within the limits ot th United I States. Th only objection that has 1 been mad to th bill ia oa th ground I that it Is aa Infringement of state I rights, but opposition on this scor - 1 not likely to hav much weight There Is bo question that legislation of this kind Is needed and tbe measure framed by the house Judiciary committee ap pears to meet every requirement There ought to be no difficulty In making It a law and probably will not be. a. . President Roosevelt's first veto bas, It Is to be hoped, put an end to thj demoralising practice of Inserting the names of deserters Into the national roll of honor.' Within the past twenty years hundreds of bills have been passed at every session of congress removing the charge of desertion from men en listed In tbe union armies during the War of the Rebellion - and restoring them to good standing In the ranks Of the veterans who wore the blue. Why congress should by special acts temovo tbe charge of desertion from renegades and cowards, who ailed to be mustered out with an honorable dis charge passes comprehension. Why any body who bad any pride In bis army rec ord should wait twenty, thirty or forty years before filing proof positive of his loyal service aa a soldier Is Inconceiv able. It Is a matter of history that thou sands of men enlisted in the union armies during the four years of war on heavy bounties, or as substitutes for unpatrlotlo stay-at-homes. These men for tha most part never Intended to ex pose their bodies to the enemies bullets or subject themselves to the hardships of war In any form. They simply en listed for the bounty and throwing away their muskets at the first oppor tunity found their way to Canada, Mex ico, or other foreign border lands. Many of these deserters were profes sional bounty Jumpers who after enlist ing, secured the bounty and deserted, changed their names and re-enlisted for new bounties only to desert again. To place the names of these mou upon tbe roll of honor puts a premium upon'de sertlon, the highest crime known to mil itary" law. Against the abuse on the part of Con gress, The Bee baa vainly remonstrated for years. The position taken by Presi dent ' Roosevelt has at last called a halt that cannot be disregarded and will, we hope, put an end to the Intro duction of such scandalous legislation. A KtPREHEXSWLK SCBtMK. It is announced that speculators are negotiating for the purchase of the Buf falo Temple of Music, In which Presi dent McKlnley was assassinated, with a view to transferring the building to some other city and preserving It as a financial venture. This with the other exposition- buildings was ' sold to the Chicago Wrecking company and it Is with that company that the parties who think they see an opportunity to make money by catering to a morbid public curiosity are negotiating, so that the reprehensible scheme of the speculators for turning to a mercenary purpose one of the most lamentable events In the country's history does not reflect upon the exposition managers. With the wrecking .company, of course, the sale of tbe building Is solely a matter ot business. . The scheme of the speculators cannot be too strongly condemned. An attempt to make money out of the terrible tragedy at Buffalo Is to the last degree reprehensible and will certainly be so regarded by all right-minded people, There is perhaps no practicable way to prevent the carrying-out of the brutally mercenary purpose, but public sent! ment should be arrayed so strongly against tho speculators aa to Insure their failure to reap the revenue they expect The. scheme la so utterly re pugnant to every consideration of pro priety and decency that' it ought to be safe to say no self-respecting person would countenance It A SATlOSAli MCORPORATIUir LAW. The question of tho supervision snd regulation of the combinations engaged In interstate commerce is a difficult one, but' it is a question the solution of which Is urgently demanded and Its pub- lie discussion should b earnestly main tained until it is solved. A suggestive contribution to such discussion has been made by Mr. James B. Dill, the well known corporation lawyer In an address before Harvard university, in which ho favored th enactment of a national Incorporation law aa dlstin guished from a national control of State-created corporations. II urged that the business of the country de mands uniform corporate legislation, formulated upon the good of the coun try as a whole snd not sectional leglsla tion. state against stats. A national law should be along tha lines of tbe ca tional banking act not abridging the powers of tbe state to creat local cor porations, but affording an opportunity to organise corporations, national In x tent whose business relates to trade with foreign countries or between states, under national law and with the protection of the national government against conflicting state legislation and local political enactments. Mr. Dill expressed th opinion that wa can look for no effective publicity no effective restrictions or regulation of cor porate power under a divers aud sys tematically opposed state legislation, therefor public opinion formulated Into statutes, to bo of tbe highest efficiency and to bo freed from evils of subordi nation, oven of prostitution, must be uniform among all th states and na tional In extent as to whether corpora tlons would voluntarily avail them selves of , a national law be bas no doubt that they would. They would do this for self-preservation, as a protec tion against the varied, divers and to day inconsistent laws of various states, and for tha reason that no corporation engaged In interstate commerce or de siring to do business throughout ths length and breadth of th country could afford to b other than a national organisation, sine It would not b long before th Investing public would draw the lines sharply between state-cre ated organbuUous assuming to da. business national In extent and true national corporations. It bas already become necessary for the sound cor porations to differentiate their position from those otherwise situated and It therefore seems reasonable to assume that all such would avail themselves of a national Incorporation law. Under such a law as suggested the national corporation should be subject to national supervision and examination and there should be required at least private publicity," which Mr. Dill be lieves would result In "public publicity." The former contemplates full Informa tion concerning the affairs of the cor poration accessible to every stockholder and as the stockholders Increase In num ber this would ultimately become pub lic publicity. Mr. Dill rightly says that the tendency to conceal vital facts from stockholders Is Indefensible, that they should receive definite and Informing statements at least yearly to enable them to act with a common understand ing. Thla Information would be made accessible under a national law. This suggestion of one who has had much experience In the organization of great corporations and Is regarded as an expert in the matter, certainly mer its consideration. If a national Incor poration law be practicable and consti tutional it might remedy many of the difficulties in dealing with the great com binations. TBI PRESS AS AS ZDVCATIOWALTACTOR Replying to a request for his opinion as to the relative Importance of the university and the press as educational factors, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the new president of Columbia university, is quoted as saying: This question caniot bs answered with out aa elaborate explanation. Th press and the university are rather to be con trasted than to be compared as educational factors. The press belonss to that group of unsystematic but very real and powerful educational Influences, ths place and func tion of which are only Just coming to bs recognised. It is aa old-fashioned notion that education is given largely, or chiefly, la the school; but nowadays we recognise the falsity of this view and see how ex tremely influential other factors are and among these the press not only la shap ing publlo opinion, but In forming and developing Individual minds. More taea get their opinions from the newspapers than from any other single source, probably not excepting Inheritance. Although not usually viewed In that light what President Butler says about the contribution of the press toward the education of the citizenship of tbe day will be readily conceded by all Intelli gent students of society. For the great mass of the people the Instruction re ceived as children In the schools fur nishes but the foundation of their edu cation, which must bo rounded out and completed In the school of experience. Tbe proportion who can pursue a sys tematic course of higher education In the colleges and universities, although increasing, Is comparatively Insignifi cant but everybody In or out of school who reads at all resorts to the press for more or less of his reading. Where the' universities reach one per son the press reaches thousands. That the university educator realizes tbe oar- row limits of bis lecture roora. as com pared, with tbe broader field o the press, Is evidenced by the frequency with which he avails himself of the press to impart to a larger circle re sults of his study which be thinks of more than ordinary Importance. Where not many years ago it was considered almost a breach of tbe professional code for a scientist to contribute to any but technical periodicals designed only for th perusal of specialists in the samo line, the university professor of today has no hesitation In writing for periodicals of popular clientage, and even for newspapers of general and In discriminate' circulation. In other words, rather than be content to be overshadowed by the growing educa tional Influence of tbe press, the unl verslty is rapidly coming to utilise the nress as a concomitant factor in the work of popular education. Nor can the universities justly com plain that In this tbe press has not met them more than half way. Excluding certain well known yellow types, the educational standard of the press of this country today is higher than it has ever been, while its scope also Is more comprehensive and tbe area of its actlv ity broader. The university and the press are coming to complement one an other to an extent scarcely yet realized In fact the press is but beginning to appreciate Its own power as an educa tional factor but the possibilities of tbe near future are sure to bring the educa' tional side of tbe. press out In unex pected prominence. After traveling through Mexico with an eye out for caref j". observation of conditions as they actually exist ex Secretary J. Sterling Morton asserts that any American publicist who fainll 1 arizes himself even In a most cursory manner with the finances ot that repub lic and who will then honoatly advocate th adoption of the sliver standard for tha United States "Is utterly incapable ot logical thought snd wholly devoid of that good Judgment which every Amer ican publicist should have." Now we know why Mr. Bryan has never taken that trip to Mexico which has been so often scheduled for blm In tbe public prints. The Intimation Is given that the same dread of collision with th law that Is Dromntlng th railroads to dissolve all their passenger and freight associations and repudiate traffic understandings will fore an abandonment of tbe work lng agreement under which the two great telegraph companies have been doing business in the United States. That the telegraph cuarges have been altogether non-competltlv even between points where both companies are sup posed to have competing lines Is a mat ter of common notoriety. Th same schedule of price per word for different distances and for day and night meev jjages baa been observed without yaria . tion, no matter which company trans mitted the dispatch. A similar mutual arrangement Is said to exist with the long distance telephone companies, obli gating the latter not to use their wires for the transmission of telegrams or to compete for business by reducing toils. If the termination of these agreements should lead to real competition between the different concerns engaged In wire communication, a merry war would ensue that would find Its end only In tbe absorption of all tue long distance telephone and telegraph lines either by one gigantic corporation or by tbe gov ernment Itself as part of the postal service. The death of ex-Governor Altgeld re moves another of the staunch props of Bryan from the political arena. To Alt geld, more than any other One man, Mr. Bryan owed the support of Illinois In his political following at both national conventions that nominated blm for the presidency. Without Altgeld It Is doubtful If the Illinois standard will be again carried in the wake of that of Nebraska, The wife of Minister Conger enter tained a number of Chinese princesses at "tiffin" tbe other day. In the ab sence of any dictionary ot Chinese so cial customs It is impossible to say whether this Is like a pink tea, a ken- slngton or an old-fashioned quilting bee, but it is a safe guess that the absent ones were not forgotten in tbe con versation. Better Than Roae. Bomervtlle Journal. Wealth doesn't always bring happiness, but it can generally furnish a pretty good Imitation. , Shertemed Breath for m Momeat. Bt Louis Globe-Democrat. General Delarey seems to hav hit tht English beef-eaters In ths vicinity ot the short ribs. Striking a Tenr Spot. Washington Post The increase ot rates by ths lnsuraaes ompanles was not devised ss a popular affair and it is coming up to expectations In this respect. "Things Coming- Oar Way." Chicago Inter Ocean. It is a little bit strange that Omaha should have been selected as the scene of the first tornado of the season, when Kansas City or Wichita would have paid well tor the space It occupied ia the news papers. OlS Farorltea la New Qnlse. Boston Transcript. A spring school ot medicine for practic ing physicians who wish to catch on to the most up-to-date developments of their science, is about to be opened at Phila delphia. A school of spring medicine Has been in operation sine, before our grand mother's time. BeaeSt of tlaleigrsaal Wires. New Torlt Tribune. All the telegraph, telephone and trolley wires in or near great cities in every part of the wsrld in which tempests may send poles toppling down ought to be put under ground. Although ths expense at the out set may be large, tbe companies win be better off in the long run, and tbe initial expenditure will be mors thaa Justified. Federal Coatrol of Railroads. Philadelphia Ledger. Publlo control ot railroad is imperative, else these creatures ot ths state would be come greater , than the stats itself. But their lines are too long and too widely spread to be wholly under the control of any individual commonwealth. What fol lows logically, then, is that they must be controlled either by concurrent action on the part ot several states through Which their lines run, or by the general govern ment, acting for tbe entire community. Present indlcationa point to the latter its ths mere feasible of the two methods. Modera Tawnee Thander. Cleveland Plain Dealer. There will be a good deal of sympathy felt for Chief Whits Eagle of tbe Pone tribe, who Is going to Washington to plead with th president to remit the order requiring th reservation Indians to bathe. White Eagle says It might kill his braves if the order is enforced and he intimates that some ot them would rather die than take a bath. Of course a deep-rooted prejudice should be oombatted with great discretion. Ia this case tha contact with water must bo extremely gradual. Perhaps tha very best way to begin would be to coax these Foacaa t tak, a drink of the hated fluid. HABIT OF SATllfO. Th Old R,llaI Financial Independence. Indianapolis News. In July of last year the individual de posits in the national basks in this country amounted to 13.228,000,000. The deposits in the savings banks in the country at the same time amounted to tl,67,ooo,ooo. The savings banks of the world had 18,901.140, 000, representing 43,070,000 depositors. The average individual account for the world waa (141.24. The average individual ac count for th Vnlted Elates was $480.80. It should be said la a time of prosperity that n habit is mors valuable to cultivate thaa the habit of saving. Prosperity avail a man nothing unless with it be has strength of character to savs la proportion. Dickens has a character in on of his doom that every time he prospers treats himself. so to say; Indulges himself with seme extra Sxpeadlture as a reward. That is likely to be a tendency with too many. It Is the old truism about prosperity being mors difficult te stand than adversity. No man can pros per that does not spend less than he makes. He car not greatly prosper uniesa increas ingly he spends less proportionately thaa he makes. While money-making Is a posi tive achievement as much sa th sreatloa of anything Is, frugality Is something that need watt on no gift, but may b, praotloed by all. Whether a maa be rich or poor, whether he be gifted mentally or emotionally or be dull there la for everyone la this lit ths lesson of self-denial to learn, aad as this life ts an exceedingly practical thlag, ths basts of self-dental might almost bs said te Ho la material savings. Where a man has not the ability to Increase his Income he should decrease his outgo. He that does this will soon begin to get a margin. Tbe process of saving is slow, but it la sure. It can literally work wonders, sad once started It grow like the rolling snowball. Tbe smallness at the beginning should be no discouragement. There is aa opportun ity for tbe man that can save 10 cents a week as well as for tbe maa that can save $10 a week. The way Is long, and to begin with may be difficult, but persistence la it makes it easy. Life Is more s matter of habit thaa of intention snd tbe habit of thrift eaa as easily b, cultivated as ths JJiAblt of prodigality. SECTLAR SHOTS AT THS PtXPIT. Washington Post: And now Bishop Pot ter wants tn aettla tha nea-ftt mmatlnn. What has hiAffia rf thm fhlA.faahlnneil fir,- late who devoted hi time to chnrch work? Chicago Chronicle: West side churches to) tha untnrkv number of fhtrtMn hav. combined in a war upon vice. It Is to be hoped that tbe proverbial 111 omen will not attend their efforts. i Boston Oloha A Raaitlnsv Pa. mtnlataf has stsrted on a trip to see which one ot seven fair correspondents he will marry. It would be bard luck it they should all conclude that they don't want to marry him. Chlcsao News: A Cnnnaptlnut nrearhar has been asked to resign becsuse he spec ulates in stocks. Perhaps some learned person can explain wherein it I worse for the pastor than for the flock to do such tnings. i Chicago Record-HeraM: A Pit latiur preacher is causing trouble because he neara swsing in the choir while he was delivering his sermon. II can hardly bs blamed. No man could ba einecteil tn n along smoothly under such conditions with out rcierence to his notes. Brooklyn Eaale: Tha areat rjaaalva rmh. Ho is not hostile to the churches. On the contrary, its heller In and its reverence for them and their mission ia hred in tinoi and bone. But it would be glad to aee them evinoe a mor intelligent appreciation of tbe situation. A great part of the business and debate which engross ths time of con tentions and assemblies appears to the average man to have very little to de with religion at best and to be specially fatuous st a time when ths very existence ot the churches themselves appear to ba in dan ger. Nor can we believe that the revision of a confession her or the modification of a Rubrlo there will have any appreciable effect upoa the matter. It has not far ha. yond all that sort ot thing. Ths people are waning now, as we believe, aot for th church to lick into shape some final state ment of theological doctrine or some doc trinaire ecclesiastical polity, but to show that It is efficient to do the business which its Founder meant It to do. This Is the task to which Us leaders should be urged and less thaa this will be almost betrayal. PERSONA!, AND OTHERWISE). Cincinnati owns tip to 100 years of age. Cleveland cheerfully admits ths towa looks it General Lord Methuen has a rent roll ot 150,000 a year, enough to keep bis tarnished hato on straight. If current Clotures of naneral TVlar, .r. true to life, his valiant burghers may be paraonea ror swearing by ths beard of ths prophet. The tendency toward the strenuous con. tlnues unohecked. An Indiana follower of the fad undertake to get married, to write a book and run for congress before the year IS out. It's a dull day when New York doesn't put some novelty into life thereabouts. A collision between a trolley car and a steam boiler Is th town's latest contribution to unique horrors. Baltimore is endeavoring to rid Itself ot lo vesuge or village life by abolish ing eow pastures within tha oitw limit. Should the rule become effective the fas cinating milkmaid will go away back and the Monument city will lose Ha picturesque charms. A Connecticut school ma'am boasts of naving spanked forty-nine pupils in thirty seven minutes. This affords atmna- nrmatton of the assertion that ths Ysnkee spirit is dying out among th rising genera tion of New Enrland. In tha i days an effort of that kind would land the teacner ia a hospital. Senator Blmon of Oregon has discovered a constituent who Uvea an ldylllo life, free from worldly cares, a millionaire one hour, but poor when sober. "When I take a drink," aays this philosopher in a let ter to the senator, "I am at peaoe with all mankind. When I have had two drinks I am a millionaire. With my third drink I own the world." Jolly old aoul. It would be a real pleasure to soak him once. Two of Chicago's hair trigger professors are discussing the probable location of the Garden ot Eden. Considering the season, there are many who will accept, without further debate, th ruling of the late Jobs Boyle O'Reilly. "I cannot understand," said the genial poet, "how any maa who haa read Genesis oaa question that ths Oarden of Eden was in Ireland. I base my conclusion on tho fig leaf Incident Adam and Eve, you know, were evicted for ths wearing of th green!" The Equitable Life In speaking of his early business exper iences Mr. Payn became reminiscent, and said: "Although I had beea la business for some Urn. J consider that I got my first start on ths road to financial auoceae from this fact: Whea I waa about 20 ysars old I took out a twenty-year life insurance pol icy. This was about to mature, whea my attention waa called to ths possibilities ot a tract of land la ths northwestern portion of ths city. Roswell Miller becam associ ated with in, -In the matter. I thought that I could anticipate my policy for a few days, and went to the late Edward Sander son, who loaned ma $5,000 for thirty days until th policy came dus. This waa my real financial start, I remember well that whea w mad the purchase th residents in that locality mads us a good many offers of additional property. Th profits oa this Investment netted me about 175,000. If I had beea endowed with the nerve eommea surat with my faith ia Milwaukee I could hav beea a millionaire, so far as wealth la concerned." Sunday Sentinel, January 5, HOT. Mr. Payae'a policy waa taken out at th age of IT and was the foundation of his fortune at a time when tbe opportunity pre sented itself. If you ars Interested la aulr cos earning our new 1&0J policy. BLASTS FROM RAM'S IIOH. It takes a great man to lead a small army. When a man really Is religious he never gets over It Batnta are not fattened on grain from the devil's fields. He who parleys with principle Is prepar ing for perdition. Information does not mke sn education without Inspiration. Stolen thunder seldom brings down showers of blessing. No man is so apt to fall as he who Is over-anxious to rise. It's a poor policy to tnke your gun to piece in the face of tbe enemy. Tbe wealth of tbe world depends oa ths value of maa and not on bis possessions. Hs does little to promote the Kingdom who Is always anxious about his owa pro motion. It Is a good Idea to have some every-day virtues In your possession before you pre tend to have any uncommon ones. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Chicago Post: "Hut how did you know that I waa In love with youT" he asked. "You were so foolish," sha answered. Detroit Free Press: VI wish to marry your dniifthter, elr." "You'll have to ask her about that, young man; I'm only her father." Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Doe Mrs, Oiigsby allow her husband's fiienda to smoke in the house?" "Not If arlgsby furnishes th cigars." Chleesro New: Ilojax Wnat became of that girl you had the flirtation with last BiimmerT Tomdlx Tou mean the girl I thought X had a flirtation with. She married me. Brooklyn Life: Husband How long is tt elnce I've ben to church? Wife Do vou mean to say you've forgot ten our wedding day? New York Bun: Deacon Goodly How do you like our new minister? Judwe Hardhead I don't like him at all. Whenever he prays he works that con temptible dodge of turning state's evidence on his fellow sinners. Philadelphia Press: Shaddock I don't think that so many joke about Easter bonnets are printed nowadays as waa th case In former years. Baasett Guess the humorists hav all got married. Cleveland Plain Dealer: The prtnr-e sailed Boston the cradle of American civilisation. "Well, It's a rocky town..all right." Boston Transerlptt Briggs I guess th new minister la all right. OrifTPS Then you have heard him? Briggs No, but my wife ha, the says he delivered a sermon that anybody could write. Evidently h, knows bqyr to express his thoughts forcibly and In a sensible manner. Baltimore American: "I doubt If Hen peck over draws a sober breath any more." "He doesn't, and his wife has no one to blame for It but herself. Tha first time he fell from, grace hie wife told him shn didn't think It worth while to talk to htm while he waa In that condition." THE BREVITY OP LIFE. Francis Quarles. Behold! How short a span Was long- enough of old, To measure, out the life of man In these well-tempered daysl Ilia time waa then Surveyed, east up and found but three score years and ten. Alas! And what is that? They come, and slide, and pass. Before my pen can tell thee what. The rsts of time are swift, which, having Their seven short stages o'er, their short lived task la done. Our daya ' Begun, we lend , . To alep to antlo plays And toye until the first stage ends: Twelve waning moons, twice five times told, we give To "JJ1"'4 1om: 'Sther breaths thaa We spend A ten years' breath Before we apprehend Xf,. i'V Uve or fr"r a death: Joys! Jea, r flll'd with painted Which pleate our sense a whil. and, wak ing, prove but toy. . How soon Our new-born light . . ..AttaJno to full-aged noon! wJi? - , i" how 00" to sray-halred night! bfitf' W blo"on and w5i neao fast11 our tne They ond When soarce begun, . And ere we apprehend That we begin to live, our life Is done fait"1 7 Uy'' nd tt l'e" Sytoo r aydUtl!satBht" Count' 009 nt verT Assurance Society UJT JNJ5 W YORK. STRONGEST IN THE WORLD. ' a Protection No Young Man Should Be Without Tha accompanying clipping was taken from the life of th Hon. Henry C. Payne, our new Post master Oeneral, aa published in the Milwaukee Sentinel, if Life Assurance receives such un qualified endorsement from one whose success is known to all. Can any youn; man do better tban provide a simi lar asset while physically able? H. D. NEELY, Manager for Nebraska, Merchants National Bank Building. OMAHA, r
