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14 Till? OMAHA DAILY BEE; SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1002.. Tie Omaha Sunday Per ROBEWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT UORN1NO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, pally be (without Sunday), on Year... 10 jiiy He. una Sunday, jum tear HM illustrated bee-, un. Veer .....w tw eiunaay bee, on Year .uu arfturuay bee, uni Hear 1 '.twentieth Century i ariner. On Year., l.uu DKUViiKtD BY CAHK1EK. pally Be (without Sunday), per copy... 2c &aJiy be (without bunuayj. per ei.,.Uo Laliy be (including (Sunday), per wek..lio (Sunuay be, per cupy i Evening be (Without Sunday), per week. luc Evening be (including (tunday). par ( loc Complaint of Irregularities In delivery ahoula be adureesea to City Circulation lparUDnl OFFICES. Omaha The Bee building. South Omaha city Hail Building, Twn-ty-rmn and M btreeta. Council Jbluifs It) Peart Street. Chicago l4o Unity building. New xork Temple Court. Washington oul Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. 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Tsachuck. secretary of Th Be Publishing Company, being July sworn, ays that the actual number of full and coinplet copies of The Daily, Morning, fcvanlng aud Sunday bee printed during the month of July, U02, was as toliowsi l k iru.sau j7 mtio I XU.S70 IS t,ttJO I SO.ttO It XV.0TO I , JtU,SM l XUiS I itu,3xo u ao.tuo ......JtU.aoO t2 0,54W f so.s to It llOfiW I JTO,4W M avfitht t ,S44 K Slt.UTO 10 at,660 16 ,840 U 2t,B10 . 17 OT.4HO XX S9,tUO 28 2V.0SO IS X0.81S 19 attWK) 4 2,ttUO to ao.uio It 20.6OO U 1W.B20 It 9,BDU " ToUl VIO.eSO Tss unsold and returned copies .... w.uau Nat total sale J , Nt dally a'rag Wi.aM QKO. B. TZSOHUCK. Subscribed In my presenc and aworu te before m this list day of July, A. V. 19ul t8oL U. B. HL'NQATH. Notary Publiu. Theodore, jr., must have ambition to bo something of a Ntmrod himself. From external signs the cojil trust ap pears to be determined to revive the popularity of the backyard woodpile. Chicago puplla required to carry boiled drinking water to school with- them iwill be acquiring the bottle habit early. " Governor Savage might learn a lesson from the parrot that achieved wisdom when it discovered that It talked too much. ' ' The only thing missing at the Jack onlan outdoor blowout seems to have been the presence of Saint Jackson him self.; . ' ,'' Before many daya the foot ball will be inviting both the golf stick and the tenuis racquet to go way back and alt down. . King Corn may be a trifle backward, but he may be depended on to push hla way to the front before Jack Frost gets too lively. No well-behaved oyster that observes calendar etiquette will make his debut before tomorrow ushers in the month of September. Those naval sham battles are great things for war correspondents, who .were on the verge of losing their placet In the public eye. With men ajaln trying to swim the British channel, we may expect soon a few more foolhardy attempts to shoot over Niagara falls.' bl ... , ; . An asbestos mine has been discovered In Michigan. It should be at once trannplauted to the vicinity of Pelee If It is to be put to its fullest usefulness. In hla quest of rest from worry Steel Magnate Schwab has immolated himself In the quietude of Purls. When , be .wants rest from Parisian diversion, he will come home. It la asserted that the striking anthra cite coal miners can hold out all winter. But .what about the consumers of an thracite coal? How many of them can .withstand an all-winter siege) Governor Savage says tht tempter (Wrote on the paper pad $7,500 at an offer for four pollc t-oiuuilsslou appoint ments. The governor must be mistaken. The figures plainly mean $75.00. Henry Watterson has now gotten around to the point In the democratic game where he la calling for a new deal and a new deck, ou the ground that the old cards are thumbinarked. If ex-Senator David B. Hill is really the w hole thing in the New York state democratic machine this year, New .York will not be found on the 1002 itinerary map curried by Colonel Wil liam J. Bryan. After exacting indemnity from the Chinese for damages inflicted on Ameri can missionaries, the United States can hardly ignore the complaints of mis treatment of Chinese subjects In this country. The golden rule Is the basic .principle of International relations I L J Tba thrifty housewife who got ahead of the glassware combine by finishing up ber Jellies and preserve before the prices of tumblers and glass Jars were screwed up, deserve a special reward. No more malicious outrage could be perpetrated than the action of the glass ware autocrats raising their price sched ules right in the ruldt of the preserving Season. Not one of the vile offenders should be allowed to liave.jaoi for hit breakfast for a whole year. LIFT THAT CIO Alt BuXLIU. During the criminal trial of former State Treasurer Joseph R. Hartley It was brought out In the testimony that Hart ley kept In a cigar box a large mimlierof tineollcctlblo notes, due bills and I. O. U.s for ensh advanced to various parties of more or less prominence In political and business circles, who hnd borrowed from hlin money taken out of funds belonging to the state. For some reason ncter yet explained, the names of these parties and the amounts they respectively owed to Hartley, or rather to the state, have never been divulged. It Is an open secret, however, that Bartley while in prison threatened from time to time to take the lid off that cigar box unless he was granted a pardon. .It Is to be presumed, of course, that this historic cigar box was la some safe hid ing place up to the time Governor Sav age gave him an unconditional pardon, but whether Bartley was liberated on coudltlou that he would burn up or tear up the telltale notes, due bills or I. O. U.s In consideration of his liberation Is still a state secret The only man besides Bartley who claims to know positively that this box contains damaging proofs of criminal collusion with the great embezzler Is Ezra I. Savage, governor of the state of Nebraska. In the letter recently ad dressed to the editor of The Bee Gov ernor Savage says: There are many skeletons In that much mooted cigar box that may at some future time caua feelings suck as soma people experience while walking through a grave yard at the dead hour -of the night. Now, Inasmuch as Governor Savage has proclaimed to all the world over hla slgnatuie as chief executive of this state. that be knows the contents of the "mooted cigar box," which would cause such fright to some men as would the apparition of a ghost when graveyards yawn, the people of this state have a right to demand that the governor take the lid off that box so that they may know the contents and the prosecuting officers of the state may have the oppor tunity to institute proceedings for the recovery of the lost money from such of the beneficiaries of Bartley't embezzle ment as are able to pay and bring to Justice through criminal prosecution such others as have been In collusion with the embeszler. Of all the officers In the state who are expected to enforce the rights of the state against beneficiaries of defaulters and embezzlers, and who la in duty bound to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law men guilty of this crime, Is the chief executive, who is sworn to ex ecute tuts taw lev iue me tail where it may. If Governor Savage wilfully con ceals the truth from the people and has purposely and deliberately entered Into a compact with anybody to suppress the truth concerning the beneficiaries of state embezzlement he is equally culpa ble with them. Such conduct constitutes an Impeachable offense that also would subject him to be brought before the bar of Justice as an accessory to the crime. While Esra P. Savage will cease to occupy the executive chair by the time the next legislature convenes he is nev ertheless impeachable for misdemeanors in office, and the penalty of removal from office, which is the mala object of the Impeachment, could not be Inflicted, the second penalty, of perpetual disfran chisement, can be Imposed so that an ex ample may be set for the coming genera tion that no man occupying the high po sition" of governor shall dare to disregard the sacred obligations Imposed upon the chief magistrate of a great common wealth. LABOR HtRM AMD ABROAD. Mr. James R. Keene. the well known financier, who has Just returned from an extended visit to Europe, sayt the condition of the laboring classes In Hun gary, Austria and part of Germany Is really pitiful. The rate of wages barely admits of existence and when he saw the workmen In those countries he wondered what we would do without a tariff. . "America is the paradise of earth," declared Mr. Keene. "Here is the greatest return offered to the man who has muscle or brain 'to market Here is the place for the man of .ambi tion to discover that energy and worth find their way to the top more suddenly than anywhere else on earth." This statement of a man of large and careful observation should command t lie attention of American worklugiuen. The more intelligent of them of course know that labor is better rewarded 'u the United States than in any other Country. They know that the wnjfj worker hat greater respect here than in any other land. But do they generally appreciate why this is so? ' Forty-five years ago labor in this country was in about the condition that labor it now in most of the countries of Europe. It was not steadily employed and It was poorly paid. In 18o5 Horace Greeley wrote: "The cry of hard times reaches us from every part of the country. The making of roada la stopped, factories are closed and housea and ships are no longer being built. Factory hands, roudmakert, carpenters, bricklayers and laborer! are Idle and paralysis It rap idly embracing every pursuit la the country. The cause of all this sto page of circulation Is to be found In the steady outflow of gold to pay foreign laborers- for the cloth, the shoes, the Iron and the other things that conld be prodnord by American labor, but which cannot be so produced under our pres ent revenue system." Theu the country had a "tariff for revenue only," which not only failed to yield sufficient revenue to meet the ."X peudltures of the government but kept the industries prostrated. In his mes sage to congress In 1857 President Bu chanan thus presented the situation: "With unsurpassed plenty In all the productions and all the elements of natural wealth our manufacturers have suspended, our public works are re tarded, our private enterprises of dif ferent kinds are abandoned, and thou sands of useful laborers are thrown out of employment and reduced to want We have possessed all these elements of material wealth In rich atyiudnnce. and yt notwithstanding all these ad vantages, our conntry, In Its monetary Interests, Is In a deplorable condition." One of the severest panics the country ever experienced waa in 1857 and It was particularly disastrous to labor. There were bread riots in New York and some other cities and destitution and suffer ing among the laboring classes was general. A change came, with the Inauguration of the economic policy of the republican party and it Is needless to point out what has been Accomplished under the operation of that policy for American Industries and American labor. All In telligent men are familiar with it and it Is this which the wage workers need to bear in mind when they are appealed to to strike down or seriously Impair that policy. Labor conditions in the United States may not be In all cases what could be desired. Improvement In some respects Is to be wished for. But on the whole American labor Is vastly better off in every way than is labor in any other part of the world and this It one of the beneficent results of the policy which has made the United States first among the Industrial nations. SKiriXO MACHINES, PIANOS, WATCHES. The brilliant geniuses who constitute the railroad tax bureau have thrown out a paralyzer in Bulletin No. 45, which embodies an exhibit of the ridiculously low assessment of certain classes of personal property, including sewing ma chines, pianos and melodeons, watches and clocks and billiard tables. Taking the returns for the year 1900 and the assessment for that year, the bureaucrats call attention to the fact that the total assessment of all sewing machines aggregated only $200,314, each sewing machine being assessed at (2.82, while the aggregate assessment of pianos was $281,0645, or $22.10 per piano; the aggregate assessment of melodeons and organs was $141,080, or $5.82 each. and the aggregate assessment of watches and clocks was $120,833, or $1.70 each; 'billiard tables, $0,500, or $12.06 each. These figures would seem ridiculously low at first sight, but upon close in spection they afford no proof of the alle gation that the ratio of assessment of these articles Is from one-fifteenth to one-twentieth of their actual value. At the ratio of one-sixth, sewing machines assessed for $2.82 are presumed to have an average actual value of $16.02. Pianos assessed for $22.16 have an Waaaai 1 A.a,uj I. aa.a.u.uvSa aill:Aitt-4lk an- sessed for $5.82 have an average value of $20.10, watches and clocks assessed at $1.76 an average value of $10.56, and billiard tables assessed at $12.06 would be presumed to have an average value of $72.36. Now remember that all these articles are second-hand, many of tbem almost used up and worthless except for what they would bring as old metal or kindling wood. We venture to assert that the sewing machines appraised for an average of $16.19 can be replaced at that price new, if purchased at the fac tory at wholesale. We venture to as sert that a public sale of the second hand pianos in this state would come nowhere near bringing $132.00 apiece, nor would second-hand melodeons sell for $29.10, on the average. As to watches and clocks, there are luuusouuu in tms state mat were bought by their owners at retail for a good deal less than $10.50. The very best of clocks can be bought at from $3 to $6 apiece, and, while $10.50 would not buy a gold watch with a Howard movement it will buy half a dozen Waterbury nickel case watches or brass watches dipped in gilding fluid. To the railroad tax agent 172.30 mav appear ridiculously low for a billiard table, but If all the billiard tables in Nebraska were put up at auction we doubt very much whether the bureau crats would be willing to buy them in for $50 apiece. If the theory of the raiiroaa tax Jugglers is correct, how ever, all of these commodities are as sessed at only one-tenth of their actual value, which would make the Durchase price of second-hand sewing machines $28.20, the average of second-hand pianos $221.60, the average of second hand organs and melodeons 152.50. the average value of second-hand billiard lames $120.60 and the average value of second-hand clocks and watches $17.00. Just advertise, If you Dlease. that th railroads will buy up all the second-hand watches and clocks, sewing machines. billiard tables, puiuot and melodeons in Nebraska at that price, and we ven ture to assert that all the empty ware houses in Omaha could not hold the goods that would be at the disposal of tne railroads at those prices. But the railroads, Instead of being assessed at one-sixth or one-tenth of their actual value, are assessed at about one-thirteenth of their actual value. And this is why the state board of railroad assessment should be recon vened to do Justice to the tax oa vers. who are overtaxed for the benefit of the railroads whose property has been out rageously undervalued by it 3 XlKKlXQ StLf-PRoTSVTlOS. There appears to be no doubt that the British government is most earnestly seeking a plan to protect Its shipping Interests in the Atlantic trade against the operations of the Morgan combine. It is manifestly not an easy problem, but there seems to be a profound con viction that It is absolutely necessary to' find some solution and the govern ment la said to be bending all its ener gies to this end. Accordlug to the latest advice there Is Intense Interest in the question and a disposition Is being shown among those most directly con cerned and whose influence is undoubt edly great to adopt an aggressive policy toward the American combine. The threat Is even made of golug so far as to make a commercial war against this couutry, but it is not at all probable that the British government can be Induced to go to any such extreme at that, to dependent Is the United Kingdom npon this country for its foodstuffs. The plans of the British government In the matter ore not yet perfected, but the expectation Is that they speedily will be and when ready they will lie an nounced to Parliament There will be hardly less Interest In their character here than In England, since it is quite possible that they will necessitate some radical changes In the policy of the At lantic shipping combine. Meanwhile there Is no reason to apprehend anything that might seriously disturb commercial relations between Great Britain and the United States. ALFRKD D. JOtiKS. ' The death of Alfred D. Jones, although stayed until he had reached a rlpo old age, far In excess of the allotted three score years and ten. Is an event of more than passing moment in the current his tory of Omaha's progress. In the birth of the city Alfred D. Jones towered above all others. As the engineer who staked out the lines for the townslte that was to become the future metropolis of Nebraska, he builded far better than he knew. While mnch Importance has been attached to the fact that he was Omaha's first post master and literally carried the post- offlce about with him in the lining of his hat It was as one of the sturdy pioneers who laid the foundations of the present city that his chief glory redounds. Mr. Jones must have had au almost prophetic vision of the twentieth cen tury city when he made a first map and labeled it Omaha City. Streets 100 feet wide to accommodate the rushing traf fic of busy marts of commerce, blocks divided into lots of liberal dimensions, affording room for ' commodious store buildings' and dwellings, public squares conspicuously reserved for public build ings and centrally located parks for beauty and recreation all platted on the treeless prairie before a single white inhabitant was on the ground what could better illustrate the broad ideas and expansive projects of the builders of our city t That Mr. Jones should have lived to see so much of his early vision realized in the creation of the Omaha of today must have been his llfe'b greatest satis faction. The high esteem in which ho has always been held by the community and the honor paid him by his associ ates in those pioneer undertakings, most of whom have preceded him to the great beyond, are tributes to his worth ren dered while he was living which cannot be enhanced now that he Is dead. Suf- fee It to y, tb rtarn of Alfred II Jones will always be inseparably inter woven with the history of Omaha, in which it plays a most notable part THE AMERICAN t ARM SR. Addressing the farmers of Maine President Roosevelt said that while as a necessary effect of the growth of indus trialism the cities and townt have In creased In population more rapidly than the country districts, "yet It remains true now, as it has always been, that in the last resort the country districts are those in which we are surest to find the old American spirit, the old American habits of thought and ways of living." He said that almost all of our great presidents have been brought up la the country and that the forces which made these farm-bred boys leaders of men when they bad come to their full man hood are still at work in our country districts. There has been change and progress In farming and farm life. The farmers of the country have grown more and more to realize new conditions and farming has. tended more 'and more to take its place as an applied science, "but after all this has been said," declared Mr. Roosevelt "It remains true that the countryman, the man on the farm, more than any other of our citizens today, is called upon continually to exercise the qualities which we like to think of at typical of the United States throughout Its history the qualities of rugged in dependence, masterful resolution and in dividual energy and resourcefulness." The life of the farmer Is passed In healthy surroundings, which tend to de velop a high type of citlsenshlp, and moreover in the country the conditions are such as to allow a closer touch be tween man ajid man than is fouud to be the case in the city "men feel more vividly the underlying sense of brother hood, of community of interest" This recognition of the qualities and character of the farmers of America is entirely correct. At a whole they pre- tent a type of citizenship which it ad mirable and unquestionably exerts a wholesome Influence. In loyalty and pa triotism the people of the country dis tricts are at least equal to the people of the cities and towns, while In Integrity and the other virtues they are on the whole superior. There is far more in telligence, also, among the people in the country than they are commonly cred ited with and the farming communities are steadily progressing In this respect As agriculture Is the basis of prosperity, so is it true that the agricultural pro ducers are a most potent factor in American citizenship and their influence is largely for what is best in citizenship a due respect for law, performance of the duties and obligations of the citizen, devotion to the government and a care ful regard for those principles which are essential to right social conditions. The bald assertion Is made that more than 20 per cent of the teachers in the Chicago public schools are incompetent and should be dismissed from the serv ice. The Omaha plan of planting sis ters, cousins and dependents of board members and people with a pull must prevail, only to a much more exteuslve degree, over In Chicago. 1 Superintendent Machen of the rural free delivery division of the Poetofllce department declares that he can pee no limit to the extension of the delivery sys tem until the entire rural population within reach of a general poetorOce re ctives ltt benefits. The persistent de- maud for rural free delivery In all parts of the country Is the distinguishing mark of the present era of postal prog ress. Just as the rate of postage has never been raised again after reduction, so the area of free postal delivery is bound to keep on enlarging and never contracting. Here la a prescription for success given by George W. Perkins, now one of the head partners in the J. Pierpout Morgan firm, who a few years ago was visiting Omaha as the western repre sentative of a big Insurance company: Too many young men in this country do not want to work hard. They prefer to take things easy stay up too lat at night and II abed too lat ta th morning. They never can get ahead In that way. Times and conditions may chang, but the old rule remains, that there la no success without everlastingly keeping at It The voting man who has allowed him- I self to be persuaded that all the op portunities to rise In the world have been blocked by modern Industrial de velopment will profit by reading this over several times and pondering on it Pattln tt FroTldence. Baltimore American. ' The coal mines, b it known, ar held by divine right This puts th increased coal bill in such a light that tt may be called a dispensation of Provldsne. Adrantage of Knowing How. Saturday Evening Poet ' Spitting on the bait don't catch bass It you don't know how to cast; and spitting on your bands won't make money Jf you don't know how to use tbem. Royal Roaader'a Freoaatloa. Chicago Chronicle. King Kewanlka of Basutoland hat gon home from the coronation, taking with him six plug hats. His experience In London with what Or. E. Benjamin Andrews calls "nights of hilarity" has no doubt inspired his majesty with the desire ' to have a varied collection of headgear tor next morn ing's wear. Science Scores A gala. Baltimore American. Great are the triumphs of science! By removing the goat's horns set on silver plates In a man's head a wild monster was transformed into a most peaceable and civ ilised being. It may be Incidentally men tioned that the wild man had already ad vanced sufficiently to elvllliatlon to make a fortune out of his artificially produced horns. Unateadlaeas of Crowa. Philadelphia Press. It seems that King Edward was so un accustomed to wearing a crown that he bumped It pretty hsrd when getting Into a carriage on the day of the coronation, and It Is now being repaired. If the crowa never gets any worse bumps than that the king will be lucky. Seiui iun ouu it' the present century quite a number of crowns are likely to be bumped out of ex istence. "Economics" that Mean Losses. Washington Star. Th beer trust declares that the distrib uting company about to be organised will save hundreds of thousands of dollars an nually by abolishing branch houses. If the public shared In the benefit of this ar rangement it might be regarded with more favor. As it Is, the beaf trust's saving must be regarded as less important than the losses of th people who will be thrown out of business. A PATHETIC TABLEAU. Historic Episodes Reprodaeedl la Mock Naval War. Philadelphia North American. It must be left to th military experts to explain the lessons of the mlmlo naval operations on the New England eoast The problems Involved ar necessarily too pro found and complex for the mlad of th layman. In due time th technicians will let in the light to that even the untrained ye may se. But In th meantime there Is on inci dent that must appeal Irreslettbly to the 76,000,000 and odd throbbing hearts of the American people. In th whole history of this great free nation thar Is nothing liner. It la the scene at th surrender of Commander Plllabury to Admiral Hlggin son. This Is the way it is described by one who survived to tell the story: "Commander PUlsbury. after he had sig naled hla surrender, passed In his barge from Prairie, walked up th . starboard gangway of Kearsarge and offered his sword to Admiral Hlgglnson. " 'Keep your sword, sir,' said the senior officer, his voice quavering a bit la spite of himself. 'I would not accept the sword from so gallant a foe.' "'And I, sir,' responded PUlsbury. with dignity, 'could not surrender to a nobler or better officer, sir.' " . Her met two Americans. Not th tremolo In tb victorious admiral's vote as he chivalrously refuse to accept th sword of PUlsbury, still proud and Ira perturbabl In defeat This is, Indeed, tb high tragedy of opart boufi war. I . NBWtPAPKH GROWTH. Statistic Reveal th CbaaTa Condi tion Fifty Year. St. Louis Republic. Weed, Bnntt, Greeley, Prentice and Raymond the grand "we" of th old school were In a small opmpany when they virtually ruled public opinion. There were only 254 dally papers In existence In 1850. Today they are 1.226. In 1850 tht combined circulation of the paper wa 766.454, whit In 1900 the circulation of th 1,226 was 15,102.156. The aggregate num ber of copies Issued during the year I860 was 426,40.78. while in 1900 It was 1,166, 148,749. It must be admitted that this growth in circulation has followed a change In the so-called mission of th newspaper. A half century ago no states man felt secure unless be had the ed itorial support of the papers. The press did not then, as now, express and lead public opinion, but formed it. Today the highest calling of the newspaper is to truthfully furnish the, news. No dally can make editorial expression the leading fea ture and eurvive. Railroad, telegraph end cable have made communication so easy that th desire of the people for the latest sews has made the circulation of th bet ter papers increase by leaps and bounds. With the betterment of transportation (acuities the weekly press has failed to keep pace with the dally. Prom 1680 te 180 the Increase .lo the daily was 25.1 per cent, while the Increase in weekly circula tion dropped from It.T per cent between 1880 and 1890 to 14.7 per cent In the last decade. There was I19t.44t.708 invested In news papers and periodicals la 1900. They had 27.679 salaried employes, who received 127.016,791, and 94.404 wagt earners, who received 650.828.061. Material cost 650, 214,904 and the money valae of the prod ucts was 1222,983.569. There It no way of computing the actual value of the product In promoting advancement and tavtag the cost of mistakes which Ignore ac makes st every turn. ECt I.AR SHOTS AT THE Pfl.PIT. Chicago Chronicle: A Clevelsnd clergy msn who declines a nomination for con gress undoubtedly I Inspired by the well founded apprehension that there Is not enough earing grace in stock to carry him through a political campaign. Brooklyn Eagle: Out in India they do not like mlrolonsries. It It lesrned. because the natives think Christianity Is something that destroys. Ia view of events In China and of the conduct of Christian huntera In India and everywhere elae. Is It sny wonder they think thatT Indianapolis Journal: 'There was enough truth In the statements of a preacher at Winona laks to set people thinking, at leaet. He said: "The way to get rid et gamblera, drunkards and dudes Is not to raise them," and that "Anarchy Is not born In Hsy market square, but In the houses in which boys are not taught to obey their parents." There may be something In parental Influ ences, but a vsst majority of criminals be come so through bad environments and bad training. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: It wasn't a bromide, or a tonic, or "cucumbers," or "indigestion," or anything fat all that Is usually alleged, that was the matter with Rev. Sam Small at Brattleboro, Vt., and Rev. Sara 8mall bravely, frankly and hon estly aays It wasn't, for which at least let us give him the credit of manliness. Be sure that In looking upon the highball wheu It rlveth Its color In the cup your sin will find you out, especially if you are a minis ter of the gospel. Those who undertake to teach morals as a profession must stand unshielded In the white light. Chicago Record-Herald: Kansas Is now producing some of the most wonderful preschers that ever hurled a varied assort ment of English from the pulpit. One of these expounders of the word recently en deavored to give his hearer an Idea of the length of eternity, and this Is the way he did It: "If a little sparrow were to dtp its bill In the Atlantic ocean and take one drop of water and then take one hop a day across the country and put that drop In the Pacific ocean, and then hop back to the Atlantic, one hop a day, until the Atlantie was dry as a bone. It wouldn't be sun-up In hell." It may be possible that some Irreverent people will decline to accept the Kansas preacher as an authority on eter nity, but we must admit that he help us to a realisation of the fact that time can keep going a long while without coming to a stop, once tt ha got fairly started. Still, it la hard to believe that the bird would hold out under the conditions named. PERSONAL, AND OTHERWISE. If the coal trust leaves any spare change about the household this fall, the broom trust Just organised will sweep It up. A Massachusetts woman wants 6100,000 from a Chicago man for breach of promise. The Chicago gallant must have broken off a large chunk of the Ice. Th old Mississippi is low at one point and high at another. As the game pro ceeds people look on with fear and sorrow, but ar unable to change th deck. Orand Duke Boris, imwnt rttvrM visitor to Chicago, utilised a chorus girl's slipper for a wine glass. A tub could not be had, and the ducal thirst would not brook delay. y A fish made of feathers Is the latest mil linery adornment. When women take to fish stories, it behooves the disciples of Walton to forsake th purling brook and scoot for Umber, It is somewhat ungallant to intimate that th fair ones are charged with hot air, but th way they melt ice cream these glorious evenings gives the affirma tive side several laps the best of the argu ment. The elegantly appointed offloe of the Bank, ers' trust of Chicago are In charge of th sheriff. The company by some mean scooped in 6120,000 from gullible people and burned most of it Th officers have Joined th host of mysterious disappearances. Eastern papers are making much noise about "the abandonment of the Missouri river" as f navigable stream. Yet the old Muddy is not convulsed by the news. It meander bow very much as it did for cen turies, only that its romantic banks are losing their attractions for the federal "pork bar-1." Ther ar oecaalons when money talks without results. "I will pay 1100.000 to any one who can sav my life," exclaimed a man mortally injured by a railroad train at Pittsburg. The doctors rolled up their sleeves and worked as never before, but la vain. Th grim reaper refused to honor tb draft. . A floating Bnanoler with an abundance of nerve for capital camped In a small town in Indiana, opened up a saving bank with an eloquent sign and a eoplous safe. The townspeople were greatly pleased by the enterprise of the stranger, took htm to their bosoms, so to apeak, and opened their safety deposit socks. They fell over each other te get their money In the pri vate bank. As soon as th new banker recovered from the rush of business ha emptied the contents of the safe Into a gripsack sad started on a vacation. He 1 vacationing yet. Meanwhile the plucked Hooslers are exuding sufficient calorie to ripen tb corn crop. FOR BETTER OR WORSE. MHard Tlsae Ar Coaalaar for th Tyrant Mm," Chicago Tribune. A decision has Just been handed down in th appellate division of th New York su preme court which declare la effect that gross extravagance and even forgery com mitted by a wife to raise money do not con stitute cause for a limited divorce even in that state. In discussing tb case, Justice Spring said: "A husband takes a wife for better or worse, and because she does not conform ber expenditure to his notions of economy is not a ground for caating her from him." , Several other significant decisions have recently been made In that state. One af firmed the right of the wife to open and read her husband's letters. Another Justified ber la taking snakes to bed with her. Still another was that a husband must put up with a tinging servant girl If bit wife made n complaint. And It was only the other day that a Judge pronounced the husband had no right to spank his wife when she misbehaved. In the case first mentioned the highest tribunal In the Stat for th first time ha opsned wide the doors of domestic unhapplness and discord, and Invttsd th wlf to 0 In and do ber worst, merely be- Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. H- B. Wilcox, Manager. cauee at a time of mad Infatuation the help Icea man agrees to tsk the womsn tor hot ter or worse, believing there can be no worse. The complete bearings of this derision ran only be fully realised when It Is eon- ; sldered that the court make no reservation and lay down no limitation, it coiaiy tens th hufband be took th wlf for better or for wore and without any conditions either way. If she is all "better," that Is bis good fortune and he gets what he bar gained for. If she is all "worse," that Is his misfortune, but ttill he gett what he bargained for. This being the legsl view of the situs-, tlon in New York, young persons In thst state contemplating marriage should give the matter serlou consideration, eepeclally young men of a thrifty and economical dis position, lest "the evil days come," when they shsll say they "have no pleasure In them." It should be possible to devise reg ular business contracts which should define Just what degrees of "worse" the man must put up with. Hard times ar coming tof tb tyrant man. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Harpers Bnsar: Th Old Man-Young man, when you take my daughter, I trust vou with the dearest treasure of my life. No. I couldn't lend you my auto for a little spin. I value It too highly to risk It in strange hands. Judge: Mrs. Dorcas Why Is Mr. Oarsby so glad she hnen t any children? Iiorcns It gives her tr.ire time to attend those mothers' meetings. Detroit Free Press: HeHer rich uncle gave them a magnlllcent wedding present. Phe What was It T He A ton of coal. Philadelphia Ledger: Nell I stopped In st a bargnln sale today. Belle Did you see anything that looked MNeil "es; several men waiting for their wives. Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Yes, I'm en couraging my daughter to keep company with that Arctic explorer." "What's the reason?" ..... , . "He'll be able to stand It In the parlor without any fire next winter." Boston Transcript: Harry-To tell the truth, I don't believe Alice ever cared for ""Harriet Nonsense! What put that idea ,BHavIlh a'now what I'm talking about. How otherwise do you account for it that she remembers everywhere we went on our honeymoon? Baltimore American: "You must abandon all buslnes carca for the future, says the miV V'fear that I have not yet accumu lated sufficient money," protesta the multi millionaire. . . "Why. mv dear sir, you have enough money to nay physicians fees for the rest of your life!" Brooklyn Life: "Really. Louise. thU bill Is outraReoiis. You mustn't try to dress like those millionaires' wives!' "My dear Ned, control yourself.. I m only trying to appear aa well dreased as the shop girls." Philadelphia Catholic Standard: Mlas Anne Teek (blushing) Mr. Strong offered to put hla arm under me and teach me to float In the surf today, but. Of course, I wouldn't hear of It. Mis Somergal Nonsense! One la never too old to learn. rhlcnrn Post: "Are vou going to marry him?" asked the girl In white. "I don't know." answered the girl In pink. "It would be dreadful If I married him and then found that that detestable Minnie Wllklns never really wanted him. Bomervllle Journal: One way for the young man to got rich Is to save money. Another way in to marry a girl whos father has saved money. FRIENDS AND FRIENDSHIP. Arthur Chamberlain. Once on a time perhaps 'twa when Haroun Alraschld ruled two men Gieeted each other at the gate Of Bagdad, famed throughout the state. . "Oh, friend," the Aral exclaimed, "now. say Why gleam your eyes so bright today, While mine are filled with teara that run To lose themselves my beard among? Know, then, I have a friend most dear Jr. Kandahar this many a year. Who now has com my lot to share, My thoughts', my house, my work, my fare. "Ah!" cried the first, "my friend has gone, Whose face I've daily loonea upon. Forever from my sight he's passed Across Arabia's desert vaat:" ' Tn.t than they hoard the muexsln call: ("Come, comt 'o prayer!" from turret tall, . lAnd each, with cloaed ears and bowed head, "Allah II Allah! Klrnnet!" said. Then parted; one with flying feet. His thoughts on Intercourse most sweet; The other, slow, with stifled groan. To muse upon his friend, alone. When aome ten years had passed away 1 he two men met again, one day; The solitary man seemed glad; The other, downcast, tired and sad. "Oh, friend," the first one cried "I fear Ycu ve lost the one you hold so dear! What else could chance your Joy to m$r Ir. him, who came from Kandahar?" "Alas!" the other cried, "we still AMde together and fulfill The treadmill round of dally life; 1 here le no bickering nor strife. All's courteous, civil, decent yet I feel, deep down, a keen regret; He shares my house, my work, my fare, But In my thoughts he doesn't there 1 You're glad today your friend's returned From o er the desert?" "Nay, I yearned To see him; but I might not see; Yet well I knew his love for me And would not shame thst love. I tried To live as though he stood beside To warn, to comfort and to bless; So grows our friendship more, not lesa." The other answered with a sigh. Just then, from out a turret high. The muezzin's voice rose clear and loud: "Come, come to prayer!" Each bead was bowed. And as the sun set, round and red, "Allah 11 Allah! Kismet!" said. Oh heed the moral we!!, I pray! A friend may go and friendship atay, Or come and friendship fly away. "Allah 11 Allah! Kismet!" say. IF dark noon THING OF THE PAST The kodak developing machine does all Its work In broad daylight It will coat nothing but your time and we are glad to show you this latest labor saving machine. Price $6.00. Developing and printing our spe cialty. J. C. Ilutoson & Co. JUS S. 16th Itreet. Paxton Block. P. S. Mail orders solicited. "SO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS." 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