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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
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