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Tsschuck, secretary of The Be Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number ol full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during- in month of August, 11102, was as follows: X as.Tao 16 N,UO 17 2(4,82 1 18 2t,ao U 2U.TTU 20 ao,:wo 21 80,120 23 2II.IHJO 2J. ........ 80,510 24 ....2M,T3n t 2M.TT0 I 2M,oas SiS.UlO I M,U1M XM,7SO 1 XM.TttO 3CN.TSO 2N.000 10 2H.TB0 II 2M.7D0 11 2H.TSO JI 2S,(CiO 14 2H.62U U 2S.T80 25 ' 27 28 29 0 ..so.aao .'.20,8HMt ..stu.wio ..20,000 ...ao.oTu ,.ao,uo SI 2W.120 Total 000,440 Less unsold and returned copies.... V.877 Net total sales... Net dally average 89,60.t 2M.U21 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of September, A. D., im. M. B. HUNQATE, (Seal.) Notary Public. Mount Pelee will encounter no protests If It should lay off now for an Indefinite period. According to the portents In the heav ens, another eruption of Governor Sav are la about due. Congressman Mercer has not let loose With his cartoon distribution yet What Is he waiting for? Colonel Bryan may be relied on to steer clear also of Wisconsin In bis cam paign tours this year. President Baer of the anthracite coal combine might also learn a lesson from i the parrot that discovered that It talked too much. Napoleon's way of playing war games with colored paper stuck on maps by means of pins was cheaper, though not so realistic. James J. II 111 must be the talking member of the firm of railroad merger magnates In special charge of the pub licity department . Perhaps it's all because the Sunday band concerts have a tendency to de populate the churches. It's hard for a preacher to talk against a brass band. Tom Johnson wants It distinctly un derstood that he is willing to subscribe to as many discredited doctrines as ever Bryan did, and more, too, if necessary. Board of Trade operators will see to It that the corn crop Is killed and resur rected several times over before the In ventory is taken of the ears in the bins. A religious weekly expresses pleasure In noting "that the old Catholic. move ment Is far from being fossilized." It should be cautioned, however, that it Is In Imminent danger of being mummi fied. Before the report of Commissioner of Labor Wright on the coal strike was made public the popocratic yellow Jour nals could not stop clamoring for it a minute. But like tbe child who cried for the toy,, now that they have what country and his fairness and disinter ther asked for. the find they don't estedness have never been challenged. .want it Despite Henry Watterson's continuous karmonv performance Kentucky demo crats are all split up, with hardly any common ground to stand on. If Colonel Watteraon ' bad only been allowed to lead on a harmony, platform, be might cave played the role of peacemaker. upon whom all combatants turn. King Victor Emmanuel Is said to be inspired with a mlssloif to accomplish a material reduction in the military armaments of Europe Bud to have made bis recent visits to Russia and Ger many with this i-ud in view. It is al ways the fellow who has no weapons about blm who prefers to fight with bare knuckles. New York City takes pride, or rather 'humiliation, in spending on charitable Institutions more thau all other Amer ican cities comblued. According to tbe point of view, this Is a misfortune that so many dependents should have to be provided, jor and a satisfaction that the resources should be available to ameliorate so much human misery. Surprise Is professed at the' practical extinction of the democratic vote In Ver mont, less than 7,000 votes being polled . by the democratic ticket In tbe recent state election. The democrats In Ver mont seem to rut no other figure except 1 to prevent either of the two factional republicans from securing a clear ma jority and thus throwing the final choice of governor to the legislature. TAIXTUD MOXICT J.V THE SCHOOL FUND Th Oinflb Baptist sanoclatlon has by unanimous vote) adopted resolution de manding the repeal of the present state law which places money received from certain llcenaeg into the school fund. At first glance this declaration would doubtless meet with the assent of mem bers of all Christian denominations who are Imbued with the Idea that money derived from the liquor traffic Is tainted with a curse and Its use to pay for school books and school teach ers places the seal of respectability uin an admitted evil. Upon second sober thought this view must prove delusive and sentimental. At the outset It may as well be under stood that the law which places money received from llauor licenses In the school fund cannot be repented by a legislature. It is Incorporated into the body of our state constitution, which sets apart all mouey derived from fines and licenses for public school education. This includes not only the money re ceived from liquor dealers, but all the money received from licenses given to theaters, circuses and public resorts, as well as from peddlers, pawnbrokers, bill posters and dog owners. It Includes, moreover, the money derived from fines Imposed upou the vicious and criminal classes of every description. If It were possible or practical to repeal that part of the state constitu tion and abrogate the laws enacted la conformity thereto It still would be an open question whether anything could be gained by diverting the license money Into another channel. What would be the gain from the moral point of view if the tax Imposed upon liquor dealers were payable Into the general fund of tbe state treasury Instead of being paid into tbe school fund? Instead of paying the wages of teachers In the common schools the money would be used to pay tbe sal aries of tbe, teachers of the state nor mal school, the deaf and dumb school, the school for the blind and the Insti tute for the feebleminded. It would also be used to pay the salaries of our state officers, supreme judges and dis trict judges, members of the legisla ture and employes In state Institutions generally. Would It shock religious sentiment less to distribute the tainted money of the saloonkeeper to the teachers In state educational Institu tions, judges of our courts and state officers than if It were paid out to the teachers In the kindergartens, primary and grammar grades and high schools vf our cities suiu Village? The members of the Omaha Baptist association are, perhaps, not aware of the fact that nearly $100,000,000,000 a year is collected from the distilleries. breweries, saloons and other' establish ments that deal In liquor and tobacco under the federal Internal revenue law, Ail this tainted money finds Its way into the national treasury, to be paid out for the. maintenance of our army and navy, for the salaries of the president and cab- lnet, the judges of our supreme court and members of congress. The chap- aDg 0f the army and navy and the chaplains of the two houses of congress do not resent being paid in tainted In ternal revenue collections neither do the veterans on the nations, pension roll, or the contractors who coustrucl our warships and public buildings, A large part of this tainted and cursed money finds its way In the long run Into the contribution boxes of the churches, just as does the money paid by liquor dealers, gamblers and vicious people of both sexes to our dry goods merchants, milliners, dressmakers, clothiers. Jew elry stores, hotels and restaurant keep ers. Would the Baptist association, or any other religious body, put a strainer into the contribution box that would keep out the nickels, dimes, quarters and dollars that bad passed through the cash register of a saloon, or the cash register of a storekeeper who sold his goods to the saloon keeper or bartender? Would they reject the, money contrib uted by a banker who bandies liquor dealers' deposits and pays out the tainted money to ail classes of his cus tomers? COMMISSIONER W RIGHTS IDtA. There Is no abler or more fair-minded man in tbe country in regard to labor than Carroll D. AVrlght. As' commis sioner of labor he has devoted years to the study and investigation of the interests of the worklngmen of this Very early in the anthracite coal strike Mr. Wright was requested by Presi dent Koosevelt to make an investiga tion of tbe trouble and be did so. He performed the duty assigned him with that thorough and conscientious regard for tbe work imposed upon blm which has always marked his course and has given him tbe eminent place be occu pies among statisticians and political economists. I The report of Commissioner Wright I was made public a few days ago and it shows a situation in regard to the great anthracite coal strike which jus tifies tbe proposition that it should have been submitted to arbitration. Mr. Wright found weaknesses In tbe posi tions of both the miners and the op erators. Neither Is wholr? right in Its attitude, according to this intelligent and disinterested Judge of the situation. Some of the concessions asked by tbe miners were found to be entirely Jus tified by the circumstances, while on I the other band the operators were found to be within their rights In the claims they made. It is not a one-sided affair, as the operators have characterised it In which the miners are seeking to benefit themselves at tbe expense of tbe mine owners and the public, but a con test in which the mine workers have some clearly defined rights that the operators ought to recognise and re spect There may not be universal agree- meut in tbe suggestions made by Com mlsslouer Wright for the settlement of the conflict but those who have con fidenca in his fairness and Impartiality THE O MATT A DAILY IJEEt SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7,. 1902. cflDtiot doubt that he has given a per fectly trustworthy statement of the situ ation and this Is unmistakably In favor of the miners. THK PRKSlDKhT IN TUG HOVTH. President Roosevelt Is now In the south and what he will ssy to the peo ple of that svetion will be regarded with more than ordinary Interest Tbe speeches of the president In New Eng land have been of uncommon character and merit They were not partisan ad dresses. They discussed the vital and commanding questions of the day with a freedom and an Independence which has secured the respect of men of all par ties and given men of all political creeds something to think about What they have demonstrated is that President Koosevelt, while an earnest party man. Is at tbe same time a broad and com prehensive thinker, Imbued with the highest ideals of American citizenship, patriotism and duty. Since Mr. Roose velt entered upon his tour he has vindi cated that conception of his character which credits him with being an ear nest sincere and courageous advocate of the policies and principles In which ha believes, rather than a mere politi cian who courts popular favor by pan dering to particular prejudices or sec tional Ideas. President Roosevelt will talk to the people of tbe south with the same can dor and honesty that he bus addressed the people of New England. He will not hesitate to tell them what he believes to be their duty and their obligations to the government What be will say in his southern trip will be regarded with great Interest by the entire coun try. AO CONVICT-MADE LITERATURE. Should the example set by the warden of tbe Indiana state prison be emulated. we are in imminent danger of a Hood of literary concoctions that will require a special chamber of horrors In each li brary into which they may force their way. At the request of the warden for an authentic version of the deed that cost him bis freedom each life convict has written out the story of his way wardness, which, published in two vol umes, are said to make up a collection of ghustly or weird talea not to be matched by the master productions of the greatest writers of imaginative fiction. What la alone significant about this literary enterprise is that the prisoners without exception jumped at the oppor tunity to contribute to the symposium in au tuTml clliicf to achivVs msru no toriety or to Justify or excuse himself, with a manifest hope, however faint. that freedom might result from publicity of his side of the criminal transaction. This would seem to Indicate that as a rule the long-term convlcjts confined In our state prisons speedily convince them selves that they are persecuted victims of society Instead of society having been victims of their vlciousness or folly. It seems to indicate that from their point of view they are not the real trans gressors and have done nothing for which they deserve to be punished, lit serves to suggest anew the question, What kind of subjects can they make for sincere prison reformers and what possibility Is there that they would make good use of freedom in ease they should be liberated? The problem of protecting society from crime, with or without the reclaiming of the criminal, is always serious and pressing. But this problem can be stud led and better solutions evolved without inundating tbe market with convict made literature. PATENTS AND MONOPOLY. Does our patent system need modifica tion? It baa been In operation since the foundation of tbe government and the general opinion . has been that It worked for the benefit of the country in stimulating invention. From time to time objection has been made to it on the ground that It is the bulwark of monopoly, but this view baa not hith erto met with much popular en dorsement On the contrary the general view has been that tbe patent system Is a good thing, that Its benefits have been of a most substantial character to the nation and consequently that it ought to be preserved. Of course this has not been the uni versa! view. Some have insisted that there should be modifications of our patent laws, to the end that they should not promote monopoly. There is no question that the laws are most liberal to inventors. The man who devises something new and useful Is well pro tected and usually is well rewarded. It will hardly be questioned, we think, that the wisdom of the statesmen who provided for this system has been very thoroughly Justified by results. But the question Is presented whether, with our present developmeut the time has not come for some modification of our patent system which will at least les sen its effect in creating and maintain ing monopoly. The New York Journal of Commerce urges that the patent laws have proved a failure at every point In the opinion of that paper they do not Insure equi table compensation to the inveutor, while they wholly divert the benefits of dis covery from tbe public at large to a single absolute owner. "As a rule, the Inventor Is made to pay the penalty of his Involuntary poverty. His assignee holds him at bis mercy and lu most cases grants him a compensation en tirely disproportloned to the measure of his rights and the value of' his dlscov erie. Tho law therefore falls of IU chief purpose the encouragement aud compensation of invention which is the sole possible Justification of the govern ment's paternal intervention." In the opinion of the Journal of Commerce the result of all this has been a gross per version of the paternal power of the government the conferment of Urge special powers upon a privileged class. the bestow men t on that claws of the power to tax heavily tbe public at large. and the embargoing of industrial progreaa by making the results of Lor vention needlessly costly to the consum ing public. It Is pointed out that the potency of the trusts largely rests upon the monopoly of patents granted for a period of not less than seventeen years and subject to indefinite renewal upon usually wholly Insufficient pretenses. The true aim of the law," says tbe Journal of Commerce, "Is deserving of all encouragement but its method Is a blot of disgrace upon the statute book. Tbe great error of the law lies In Its making the successor or assignee of the Inventor the sole user of the process and therefore constituting him neither more nor less than a licensed monopo list Take away this monopolistic , fea ture and tbe system becomes really beneficent to tbe Inventor, the Indus trialist and tbe consuming public." It will not be questioned that there is a great deal of soundness and force in this view of our patent system, which 1' undoubtedly a bulwark of monopoly and In most cases does not work justly to the Inventor. To remedy these objections to the system, how ever, without seriously impairing its value Is a matter not easily to be de termined. IOWA MCI UDIATES BRIAN. The announcement that Horace Boies, ex-governor of Iowa, will stand as the democratic candidate for congress against Speaker Henderson In the Third district follows quickly and significantly the action of the democratic state con vention at Des Moines, In which he appeared as leader In the tight to re pudiate Bry allium, free silver and the Kansas City platform. In that fight the auti-Bryanltes won, although by the slenderest margin, and they menu now to make the most of that success. Their purpose is to go strenuously on lu their effort to purge the Iowa democ racy of tbe disease which so fatally attacked tbe party In lS:)ti and which in Iowa has made It a joke ever siuce. Previously to the populixtic paroxysm that In 18Utf convulsed the Chicago con vention the democratic party had iu Iowa been built up, by wise and con servative leadership, to respectability and serious strength. The republican party becoming Involved in the folly of prohibition, the great Uerman ele ment, theretofore mainly republican aud souud money to the core, Joined the democratic party eu masse lu 1882, the year that prohibition carried. With the Germans that year, and increasingly each yearafterward, went the business men and the more conservative repub licans generally; and almost to a man they were for sound money. The re sult was that in 188!) the democratic party, wisely and conservatively led, carried Iowa and elected Horace Boies governor, re-electing him two years later. Iowa thus was made in some re spects a doubtful state. The demo cratic party had certainly become for midable. But it bad become so solely as a conservative political organization. The action of the Chicago convention in 1890 instantly shattered tbe demo cratic party in Iowa. The exodus from its ranks on account of populism was as great, as Instant and as determined as the exodus from the republican party in 1882 on account of prohlbltlonlsm. The Germans left in a body. The busi ness men hurried out Not only so, but thousands of old-line democrats either openly repudiated Bryanism or sullenly stood aloof. Of that able body of leaders who bad led the democracy, hardly one cared to help. Nearly all of them wished to see it humiliated by defeat and not a few contributed di rectly to its defeat This year at last the conservative democrats made an effort to rehabilitate the party. They knew that the very first step must be repudiation of Bryan ism. A hot fight therefore went on for six months before the. late convention and a doubtful one. Tbe issue was of course on the reaffirmation or rejection of the Kansas City platform. So deter mined were the antl-reafiirmationists that they refused to take any part in the congressional districts until after the state convention had actually gone on record. In the Third district it was boldly declared that Boies would not run until the Kansas City platform had been turned down. In the Eleventh district, where the nominating conven tion waa held ahead of the state con vention, not a solitary conservative dem ocrat could be prevailed upon to accept nomination, because of the doubt as to what might be the action of the state convention; and after It had been offered to and declined by ban! a dozen men, it waa finally thrust upon one who was not present to protect himself and ho a democrat tainted with populism. A similar situation existed in several other districts. But after a close fight the democratic state convention a week ago turned down the reafflrmatlonlsts. On tbe test in a convention of 1,000 delegates change of two dozen votea would have changed the result and would have re affirmed the Kansas City platform. It la a victory for the conservatives and the anti-Bryanites, although not a con clusive victory. It encourages them to continue their effort' to rescue the party Therefore Boles is to be brought for ward as a strong and popular man for congress la tbe Third district There fore, also, many of the old-time leaders, wno nave ror years stood apart are now bestirring themselves in the other districts. It is an effort to take absolute control of the democratic party organize tlon in Iowa, but on tbe undisguised basis of tbe repudiation of Bryanism and all that the leadership of William Jennings Brysn has stood for since 181 J. There can be no other basis. The Iowa democracy has thus taken the first step in the way which they expect to lead them In line with the conservative element of the party in the national con test two years hence, and to rid the or ganization of Its recent popullstlc man agement Edward Lggleston, who died last week, wss unquestionably one of the most popular American novelists pro- duced by the nineteenth century. Tits popularity as a novelist however secure, brought Llni less satisfaction than his achievements as a writer of American history, to which field his later activities were devoted. Dr. Eggleston's wonder ful success with his "Uoosler Schoolmas ter" is unquestionably traceable to the fact that It simply reflected the personal environment of the Uoosler author, who found his theme at home while others were writing on long-distance subjects. In his historical work the same simple straightforward style of narration makes attractive reading of otherwise uninter esting chapters in the i.utlon's growth. In the book of American literature the name of Eggleutou has a place ail of its own. We shudder to think that in his official dictionary of geographical names tiie head of the United States geological sur vey should have committed anew the heinous otteuse of crediting the origin of Chuse county, Nebraska, to an in herent de-site on the part of our law makers to honor Salmon P. Chuse of Ohio, lotuieriy chiei justice of the United States supreme court All the vehemence of our local society Journal-t-tte will be speeuily called into play to denounce this L-oiibpu'ucy to Ueprive a former mayor of Umaua of monumental glory that by rights belongs to hiiu. If the officials of the geological survey were not inspired by malice afore thought they would have recoguizctl the tilucuer, pointed out before, mrulsued by the town marked Champion ou the map. Miould it Income necessary to explode this, tuiry tale about Uliase county Leu,, uitiiit-U aiier salmon I'. Chuse agmu anil ugula, nothing w 1,1 be left us a last iiso.t but to cliuuge cue designation of the county seat, long known as luiiK-iutl, ami to write it iu llio future iu tliut more euphonious aud less misl;auiug l'ui'ui, Clementina, Chase county, .'o;'iinku. In an article contributed to Collier's Weekly, Ueorge li. Darnels, the veteran railroad man who prtsiues over the ,w York Central pubstuer depurtmeut draw s a stiiklug contrast illustratlug the miracle of progress that bus been wrought by the taming of the great plains, lie says: ' it seems but a very ew years siuce I made my first trip to Colorado and stopped on my way at the home of Dulfulo Bill at North Platte, Neb. At Ofcuialla, nity-oue miles west of North Platte, the Sioux ludlaus were roamiug over the prairies aud making more or less trouble for the early set- tiers. Police fiiu uli7clcUCi3 Ivuiiy Xliii Nebraska coin crop averages over 8,000, OOO acres aud the yield over iWO.OOO.UOO bushels." . And the exhibit of differences could be made with equal Impresslve ness in scores of other directions. Absentee politicians are having a hard time of It lately. Charles Walsh, sec retary of the democratic national com mittee, formerly of Iowa, but for sev eral years of Missouri, felt called upon to go up from St Louis to Des Moines, as the agent of Mr. Bryan, to run the Iowa democratic convention for Bryan ism, etc. The Iowa democrats, how ever, refused to pay rent to absentee political landlords, and Walsh's reflec tions have not yet been offered for pub lication. Electricity Not tbe Whole Thlaa;. Boston Qlobe. , Electricity may be the motive power of the future, but the faot remains that in the census year 1800 the output of steam .loco motives was more than 1,000, valued at more than $30,000,000. " Too G09A to Be True. Chicago Chronicle. A holy Joy will animate the publio breast at the prospect that the oil trust and tbe coal trust may shortly roll out Into the middle of the road clawing, scratching. biting and kicking each other. It seems too good to be true. Probably it isn't true. Tipple of Qria Wsvrrlora. . Baltimore American. As the army and navy have been com' plaining somewhat that the people at large did not take the great war game seriously, an effort has been made to give convincing proof of the value of the proceedings by stopping the maneuvers to give Newport society a pink tea. Room for IstprsreaitBt Louisville Courier-Journal. The railroads took a fearful toll of Ufa and limb during the 1901 year of pros perity. The total number of casualties for the year ending June 30, 1901, was S1.7H the number of persons killed being 8,465 and tbe number injured 63.J39. , On the other hand, the railroads of Great' Britain did not lose a life. We are far ahead ot England in our transportation service, but life is one of the cheapest of our com modities. Ancleat Prophecies cusalaar Traa. New York Tribune. In the book of N'ahum the Prophet these words are found: "The chariots shall rage In the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches; they shall run like the light nings." Did this wonderfully impressive and Vivid description foretell the era ot the trolley and tbe automobiles? Even the sultan of Morocco and Sir Thomas Upton have bean jostled and ehakn up by seir motors ia the last few days. Divorce Lawyers fsrkes. New York World. Not the least valuable feature of the divorce law which goes into effect today In New York la that section which makes solicitation of divorce cases by circular or advertisement a misdemeanor. No self respecting lawyer will suffer from this pro Tls ion. And not again will the alluring "card" ot a divorce shark lead to tbe cryatallliation In court ot ths unhappy im Dulse toward separation following some trifle ot domestic trouble. Sis for the Real Thin. Springfield Republican. The mimic war on our southern New England coast, between the army and tbe navy, does not in tbe least disturb the far famed New England anti-lmperlallsts, al though questions are being asked In various parts of the country as to the way the antt imperialists are taking IL They never bother about sham fights. Fetch along, however, a struggle for good old cause against great odds, tkat looks like a forlorn hope, and they will sniff battle from afar like the war horse of Sir Galahad. They are esaentlally real fighter, being made that way. And New England has not been without taem for geaeratloaa. rvitioxAL ajto othbbwhd. The meJsncholy days have surely corns when coal aaceids to twelve plunks a ton. As the Ice man vanishes from stint lbs coal man drives to ths center ot the stage. It is said of David B. H1U that he has never kissed a woman. Probably be never had a good chance. It It sow explained that Mr. Schwab's salary la enly I2.SO.000 a year. Ttt at that price he can afford a porterhouse occa sionally without baiting the wolf. The Baered Thirst society Is getting busy in St. Paul. A sacred thirst Is the real thing In the consecrated town, but there Is so occasion for a victim suffering U no has the price. One hundred and eixty women have sig nified their willingness to marry tho presi dent of a bachelors' club la New Jersey. Amaiing, Indeed, are the risks some women will take to reform the tyrant man. The oldest married woman In Chicago says the best way to manage a husband Is to let him manage himself. After fifty-six yeare experience with two Chicago men her opinion deserves to be embalmed as a household motto. The old Salem atmosphere 'of Massa chusetts sticks to the state with all the seal of an officeholder to a good Job. A fine of 10 has been taxed np to a Seventh Day Adventist at Maiden for painting his barn on Bunday. When you observe a person strutting along the highway, head high and nostrils tilted to the stars, Joy perched on his brow, his eyes flashing contempt for sdvanoe notices of old Boreas, It Is safe to conclude that person has his coal bins loaded. One of Chicago's messenger girls proved herself a strike breaker of vigor and origi nality. A gang of boy strikers who at tacked her were routed with a knockdown blow supplemented with a hatpin. The boys shinned up the alleys at a speed that astonished the natives. Senator Thomas Collier Piatt of New Ycrk perched his frame on a chop house stcol In New York recently. A stranger did likewise. Tbe senator drafted a mod erate order for internal fuel. It pleased the stranger, who. In answer to the waiter's interrogation, whispered "me, too." The senator winked a knowing wink, seized the stranger's chip and paid his bill. The warm bunch of animated calico whose outbursts of passion gilded the name and fame of Butte has given Coney Island whirl and reports herself soulfully pleased with that Al exhibit ot "the world, the flesh and the devil." A love scene only marred her Joyous ecstasy. "They ogled and spooned on the beach," she observes In print. "I turned away from them as from a plague." AGE NOT A MATTER OF YEARS. 'Freikaeti of neart lyowgha Gray Hairs Away." Baltimore American. Apropos of a discussion on the age of Rear Admiral T. 0. Selfridge, In which It la said, "The records don't show and he won't tell," one of the queerest in- MnMa of American human nature is the mania for learning people's ages. It la not In provincial society alone that this personal dotal! Is eagerly sought after by the curious, and there was a time when it was all-Important and when the age limit waa as strictly observed socially aa It Is now officially. ' But H is a sign of the times that age is merely an incidental detail, There are nonagenarians of 20 and young sters of 90; there are young men and young women on the Sunny aide Of ,25, who lave exhausted an life baa to oner - for tnem, and men and women on the shady side of 60 to whom living has numerous pleasures and keen interests. . It Is sot the grayness of the head, but the freshness of ithe heart. which determines the limit when youth has paM ed. What young man in English publio life was the rival of Gladstone In tho point ot mental vigor and healthy activity? Queen Vlotorla never ceased to take an active in tereet In public affairs, and but for the train of personal sorrows and the anxiety caused by the Boer war would probably have lived into another decade. : There are few today who can boast of the ability and tho clear brain of Pope Leo XIII, and he Is nearlng the century mark. Examples of youth In age multiply as oao stops to recall them. It has ceased to be a truism that age Is a matter of years. And when the' eagerness, tho energy, the enthusiasm. tho ambition ot youth still nourish, but tempered with the experience, tho sa gacity, the wisdom of age, then has the world its most valuable men. And the tendency of the age is to produoe them. and, what is more, to recognise and honor thorn. The times, it is true, demand young blood, but that by no means Indicates taay do not encourage age. LET THEM OOSUfl. Ha.ll to Fora-lc Wonsaa Who Coaao to . Marry Their Sweethearts. New York Tribune. The Immigration authorities are much disturbed over the decision of Judge La eombe admitting to this country Maria Burcto. a womaa who cam here to marry an American cltiien to whom she bad long been affianced, and who did marry him oa her arrival here before being allowed to land. They say that ths decision opens the door to the admission of all sorts of undesirable women, who have only to enter Into a marriage contract with some confederate here to secure admission. In spite of their patent unfitness. There may be something In this, but there Is no doubt that Judge Lacombo did substantial Justice. The woman was reepectable. She came here la good faith to Join the man who had settled here to make a borne tor himaelf and her, and had proepered and beoome aa American clttiea. Ia her desire to save bis money she came aa steerage passenger, and was held up an undesirable Immigrant because of some affection of the eyee. If she had traveled second class, or had been married before her arrival, ahe would have had no trouble, and the exercla of a little com mon sens at Ellis Island would have permitted a landing which was entirely In accord with good morals and good public policy, and would have avoided a judlelal decision whiea may bo mbarraas!ng. Embarrassment or no embarrassment, the American people will not stand for any law which prevents American cltlsena of Italian. Irish, Swedish, or any other birth sending to the old home for the sweethearts whom they left to seek for' tune In the new world, and settling dows to make home here Instead of taking themselves and their wealth back across the ocean. If they have to marry la baate on tbe Immigrant docks, that Is handicap enough on the faith of lovers. Why should they have to spead their money going back bom to get married and then bring over their wives Instead of keeping It to educate their children here? Hang tbe embarrassment and the precedent I ' If the Rhadamantbus at the Immigration bureau cannot judge between a ' girl com lag to marry an American cltlsen In good faith and aa adventuress trying to h the law be has degenerated since classical times and brought the trouble oa himself. Hak way for the levers 1 Let it never be said that .Uncle Sam begrudges his adopted children the wives ot their choice. Let them , marry their old sweethearts Their loyalty to old ties promises well tor their usefulness and honeaty In the new home. Away with the purblind devotees of red tape I BLASTS riOM RAM'S Ron. Ton eaanot cover np a wrong at horns by a gift abroad. Tho enmity of tho wicked Is the evidence of their envy. The proud man Is likely to need our pity store than the humble. Wo would not dare to pray at all It all our prayers were answered. The churches are the creatures and not tho creators of Christianity. It Is a poor brand of piety that must be preserved in a refrigerator church. Ood made men like. Himself that they Bight make earth more like heaven. Every page of the old testament has a star of promise for the world's night of sin. Some hope for a genuine heaven who do not hesitate to put a dishonest dollar in the offering. The star singer will give his notes to the glory of Ood If bo can get enough notice for his own glory. It will take those people who are always soured on the church a long time to get sweetened up for heaven. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE FVLPIT. Baltimore American: A Connecticut man . has offered to deed a sit to a church -pro vided tbe psster will listen to him while bo talks for ten hours on science, nature and religion. The bargain should Include a proviso for a memorial window for the minister. Indianapolis Journal: The Journal takes off Its bat to Rev. B. J. Dickons, pastor ot a Baptist church ia Decatur county, who, with a shotgun, routed a gang of ruffians who attempted to drive blm from bis horn ; at aight. That Is the way to end the', wbitecap business. Boston Olobo: The minister of Lexlng- ' ton, Ky., who startled bis congregation Sunday evening by drawing a human skeleton from Its place of eonoealment be bind the pulpit and delivering an address on the vanity ef things material, pointing to the skull as the end of flesh, evidently wanted to get his name la all the papers. and so we do not print It. Washington Post: Ona religious denomi nation out la Indians has deposed Its bishop because he brought a suit in a civil court, whloh Is contrary to the law of their church. Then they turn about and threaten that if the bishop attempts to continue to perform tho functions of the office they will go Into court and enjoin him. It would seem that consistency doesn't constitute a vast section ot their creed. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Town Tonics: He You are not the itlfl to give yournelf away, are you? fctno o; out you mignt asa latner. Puck: "She smile so aweetlv when one sends her a bouquet." leal Confound ltl No matter wno sends It!" Somervllle Journal: When two women begin calling each other "dear" In every sentence that they speak, look out for breakers.' C1YlanA Plain TtosW: "And will I wear a coronet?" queried the prospective duchess. - "You will," replied the Impecunious lord ling, "tf you aav the cash to pay for it." Detroit Free Press: SheThere, dear. . haven't I been thouahtful of you and un- , elfish T . He How?- "Why. I keDt ail ' these bills ef mine away from you until the middle of lha ' month! . , . , Phlladelohla Press: Worthless Husband - Going to leave me, are you, Moll? Didn't I you take me for better or worse? Long Buffering Wife Yes, but you ara I absolutely the worst. I didn't take you tor 1 that. . Chlcaa-o Tribune: "You oua-ht not to bo . o critical. Ethel. He Is rich, well eon- 1 nected and a young man of mugh tndepend- ence and originality." . ' ; maeea ne is, mamma. He la inaepend- I ent of all rules of grammar and so original that not more than half the word he uses I can be found In the dictionary." Washington Star: "That young man baa a brilliant future before hlm.,r aaJri ih phrenologist. Ana tne uttie Boston boy whose bumps were being examined Dolhhed hla mnce. tacle and exclaimed: . Pardon me. but vou men nn a vrv in. terestlng field of inquiry. Where else could my future be If it were not before me?" rWnnitl TVIk,,... r. T. .l-i.i ,ri.i tor stopped at the editor' desk. "And do f'uu luv wi uiv cumuiunicauoni mat come n?" he axked. Interestedly. "Not all of them." replied the editor fllaaaantlv? "nnlv imma , V. - , .w-i ngllsh polished up. that awful racket In tbe next room?' Mr. Rounder Ob, that's only nay hus band dressing to go downstairs. ' ar. ncijuuora-xnaeear 1 ve neard roles say he was a loud dresser, but I had no ldea tt was anything like that. THE LEGEND. W. D, Neabit in Baltimore American. It is a legend nothing more; It may be false or true; It may be but an Idle tale By one with naught to do. e . . Two met upon the stately steps That led into the place Where men were met for worshiping, And aang the songs of grace; One was a man of common mold One had a shining face. , Then aide by side they reached the doors And side by side went thtough; Another met them In the way' ,. .Anl barred them from a pew. AA these are sold," he softly said, "And not for such as you." Then spoke the man of common mold: Is there no corner here. No vacant place, nor empty seat. Nor footstool In the rear. Nor any place where such as I May feel bis Maker near?" The other answered him and said: "There is no vacant spott There Is no empty place nor seat For them who buy them not; For all who worship in this house Demand all they have bought." Two stood upon the stately steps That led Into the street; Within the anthem rose and fell" In melody full sweet, And, to Its lilt, away from there. The twain then turned their feet TSf," ..,d.Jn" mn of common moldi "Would that I had the fee. 1 . "A1 cho of the song And there I fain would be." "ald th? on wlth shining face: "They preach la there of m," e I Is a legend nothing more By one whose heart was sad. . ow It never happened eo. But, olv what If It had? A Free Demonstration On September 9. From I to 4 p. m. Mr. Nolsnd of the East man Kodak Co. will be hero to show the wonders of the daylight developing ma chine. Kindly bring as your Suns for de velopment. Don't forget la data September 9 J.C.Hutesott&Co OONSTJLTINO OPTICIANS, PAXTON BLOCK, OMAHA