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1 TITE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOUER 12, 1002. Tiie Omaiia Sunday Bee, E. KOSEWATKR, EDITOR. ri'BU8HKD EVERT MORNING. TEAMS OF SLUBCRIPTION. t)Uy lira (without 8unduy), One Vear..$4 ' l'aliy B a and oui.(U), one Year S.W lliuHtratfd Uee, Out i-ar if "1 tfunaay Aiee, On it-r Tallin nv Bte, One Vear Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. l.Ou LELIVEKtU BV CARRIER. pally B-e (without Sunday), per Copy ' Ually Bee (Without inia. per wee 12t Dally Hie Onciuu.iig eu,iua;, per week.. lie liunuay Wet-, ptr copy ' Kverung life twitn .. diiday), per week, sc Evening Bee (lucluuiiig ounuay), per week lt Complaints of irregularities In delivery ahouia be addressed to City Circulation De iiartment. OFFICES. Omaha Thi Bet Building. South Omaha City tutu ilulidlng, Twen-ty-mth and M titre-is. Counch Blullft li rearl Street. Chicago 110 I'mty building. New lork at 1'ark How liuildlng. Waahington bul Fourteenth rltreei. CORRESPONDENCE. Communtrat.ons relating to news and edi torial nuttier mould lie addressed: Omaha bee. Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittance ahould be addressed: The Boe Publishing Com lany, umaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing company. Only 1-cent stampa accepted in payment 01 mall account. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern . acnangcii not accepted. TUIfi BEE PLuLJolUNU COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as: Oeorge B. 'isachuck, secretary ot Ihe Bee Fubllxhing Company, being duly sworn, saya that the actual numuer ol full and complete copies of Tha Dally, Morning, Evening una Sunday Bee pruned durum the month of September, 1WJ, was as loi lowe: I ao.iao 1 80,740 1 8U,3S4 4 8O..II0 81,570 7 29,870 t SO.UWO 3O.70O 10 81.050 II 30,N)0 12 aintSO 12 81UWO 14 ....SW.BIHI 15 8 1,0 SO 18 Hl.lftO 17 aiat 18 8l.HU U 31,100 2C 8l,4-10 21 iitt.UTO 22 81,000 a iu,rmi 24 aa,u4o 25 31,200 2 80,770 27 8U.USO 28 iftMtttS J 80,tOO 10 31,1H Total OiiNJtitS Lens unsold and returned copies.... 10,144 Net total aalee 018.OB1 Net dally average 3o.toa CEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In tny presence and sworn to before me Lhla 3uUj day of September, A. D.. 1U1 M. D. HUNUATE, tSeal.) Notary Public. The way to Irrigate Is to Irrlgnte with water not wltb. wlud. As a last resort we may all have to pluy foot ball to keep warm. Present prospects re thnt a compro-1 uilse will bo effected lu the contest over the Srratton will. The lawyers must have lost their grip. Don't fool yourself that the meat pack ers' merger has been entirely abandoned. When It cornea it will make its debut as a full-grown combination. Several distinguished gentlemen seem to be Impatiently waiting for the parties to the coal strike to adjust their differ ences and give them a chance to shout "I did It." As soon as the American people get right down to business In dealing with them, the coal monopolists may find out to their sorrow that then there will be nothing to arbitrate. It is to be hoped the crown prince of Blum has been sufficiently Impressed with our military academy at West I'olut to advise bis royal father on his return to keep out of trouble wltb the United States. Senator Allison's version of the lowa platform appears to be diametrically oi posed to that put upon It by Speaker Henderson In bis letter of withdrawal. Had the speuker borrowed the senator's spectacles when be read the document be might have stayed In the race. Governor Savage cannot be deprived of the privilege Thanksgiving gives him of Issuing at leust one more proclama tion during bis officlarccupatlon of the executive mansion. There Is danger, however, that be will omit the chief rea son why Nebraskans will feel thankful. Postal receipts are universally ac cepted ss significant of general busi ness conditions. The official revenue figures for the last fiscal year show up the largest In the history of the depart ment. They enormously exceed the total for the preceding year, which bad broken all records. If William It. Hearst should be suc cessful as a candidate for co tigress per haps he will be able to transform thnt Ftaid old Journal, the Congressional Rec ord, Into a modern twentieth century, twenty four edition dully newspaper that might Hud a purchaser now and theu, If the price were placed low enough. People must not get the Idea that the decision of the Nebraska supreme court barriug the bible from the public schools Is duo to the fact that the school book trust hss no copyright ou the volume. It Is the constitution of Nebraska, pro hibiting religious or sectarian instruc tion in the schools, that stands in the way. Itussell Sage has provided, wltb characteristic foresight. It appears, for the event of bis death, so that the col laterals held by blm for loans can be released iustautly when called for. But It Is safe to gamble that be bas pro vided, with ejual foresight, that they hall not be released before paymeut of the loans In full bas been made. It Is easy to put up a straw man and easier yet to kuock blm down. Colonel Bryan Is wast lug a great deal of lung power In the present campaign In pul verizing the Fowler currency bill, which aas not passed either bouse of congress and has not the remotest chance of pass lug first, because the people do not want it, and, lastly, because the bankers (hj Mut want lb A I A MP A HIS OF SlBJCOAItoX. When the anthracite pohI ojieratora (purueil the earnest apical of I'reMliJcnt Koooevelt to submit the differences le tween the mine oierators and the mine worker to arbitration on any terms, It became manifest to the American peo ple that the oal ruiijtuiites were prose cuting a campaign of aulijtigatlon' and extermination. The conflict letween the mine mag oaten and the mine worker has as sumed International iroMrtlona and Is naturally viewed with orioun apprehen slou by the Amerlcau people. Thought ful men of all cIukhch begin to realiae that the Issue raised by the controversy lietween the mine owners and the mine workers Involves the very foundation of our ludtiHtrlal fabric and that the strike In IVnnxylvaQla Is simply the sklriniHD of the Irrepressible struggle that will have to be fought out by evolution or revolution. In refusing to arbitrate and to deal with the coal miners' union the coal magnates pliuit themselves upon the old pro-slavery platform, and like the south ern slave holders, who insisted that the regular army should be called out whenever uecessary to enforce the fugi tive slave law and protect them in the possession of human chattels, the coal barons Insist that the whole machinery of government shall le exerted to per petuate the old system of master and servant the master to order and the servant to ol)ey. While they do not contend that the mine workers are mere chattels to be taught ami sold, they U'liy their right to nsHoclatehemselves for mutual betterment and protection. Ignoring modem industrial conditions that have made it necessary for the men behind the machine to counteract the pressure of the taskmasters who oper ate the machine. While political economists are trying to educate the people to the Idea that capital and labor are married together for better or' for worse ou terms of mu tual equality, the mine magnates want to turn the twentieth century clock buck and force the resumption of the old rela tions that gave the master supreme control of his servants, to labor upon such terms as he chose to prescribe the servant to be entirely at the muster's mercy. The evolution of colossal industrial concerns und the niouoiollzatlon of commerce by rail and waterway In the hands of the Morguns, Kockefellers, Vauderbilts and Goulds has forced American wage workers to combine for "iui" protection auu tnese organiza- """" "iii-muie me uuiwura ot our citizenship against the encroachment of organized capital. The subjugation of the American worklngmeu, white or black, native or foreign, would sound the deathknell of American freedom, carrying In Its train the political serfdom of the masses. The extermination of the worklngmen's unions would be followed by the deg radation of the workers and the en thronement In power and place of an untitled nobility, the so-called captains of Industry, whose highest aim Is the absorption of all wealth and iwwer. These conditions are recognized by the president us calling for wise statesman ship and courageous action, always bearing In view the welfare of the masses. Changed conditions necessarily must be met by a change of laws and policies. GUVKRMJR UDELL'S POSITION. The position of Governor Odell of New York in regard to the anthracite situa tion will be approved by the entire country. He holds the presidents of the coal-carrying railroads responsible and be projioses to use all the authority be possesses as the chief executive of the st ute in an effort to bring the arrogant and lnsoleut coal barons to terms. There is the right spirit in the governor's declaration, in response to the Impudent statement of Buer that "we will not ac cept political advice or allow the inter ference of politicians in this, our affair." Properly Indignant at this supercilious avowal, Mr. Udell told the osrators that being governor of New York, the t hoseu representative of 7,0U0,tXR people, he was acting solely In that capacity, "and, what la more," be added, "I In tend to use every power at my com mand to do It." , Again when the spokesman of the coal operators stated that they refused to recognize the union as represented by Mr. Mitchell, Governor Odell de dared his belief that from a public point of view their position Is absolutely un tenable. "If coui operators, railroad men and other business men can com blue for mutual profit and protection, there la no reason why laboring men should not." He said further that there Is uo good reason why the opera tors should not recognize the mlue.s' uuiou. Public seutlmeut Is overw helm ingly on the side of Governor Odell in this resect. ' The operators assert that the organization of miners Is an unlaw ful body and they have denounced its members as outlaws. iliut tt is as legitimate as auy other labor organiza tion In the couutry seems to be un questionable and the facta do not Justify the charge made Indiscriminately against Its members. Some of them, It Is true, have violated the laws, but It Is mani festly most unjust to arraign as outlaws tho entire organization, because of the misdeeds of a few of Its members. As ' the assumption of the coal operators jat the miners' union wants to run their business, It Is utterly unreasonable and uuteuable. The miners have been ready at any time during the five mouths of the strike to submit their de mands to ImiMtrtlal arbitration and abide by the result This conclusively shows that they sought no undue ad vantage, but simply to secure the cor rection of conditions which they feel to be unfair. In short, the claims and assumptions of the operators are sim ply subterfuges and have uo sound or substantial basis. Governor Odell Is a careful, conserva tive pian and wheu he expressed the belief that be would nud ..remedy for the nnfslr treatment of the public by the anthracite coal combine It may be confidently assumed that he had a sub stantial basis for his belief. It Is also safe to say that be will not trlde wltb the matter, but will promptly and rig orously put In oHratlon whatever pow ers the laws give him. The geuer&l public mill regard with keen Interest the development of the course in this very vital matter of the governor of New York. PROTECTING ISTHMUS TRANSIT. American action In taking control of the I'anama railroad and refusing to al low the Colombian government to trans port triwps over the line, has raised the question whether this is not un in fraction of the sovereign rights of Co lombia which the treaty obligation of the United States does not Justify. Admiral Casey's explanation of the ac tion Is thnt it was uecessary to maintain free transportation, since allowing the Colombian government to transport troops and war material along the line would be provoking to the revolution ists and might cause an interruption of traffic. While this Is plausible, It Is pointed out that such a course does not bud warrant In the treaty and therefore fur nishes Just cause of complaint and pro test on the part of the government of Colombia. The treaty, negotiated fifty six years ago, under which the United States assumed the obligation of main taining free and uninterrupted transit across the Isthmus of Panama, de clares that In guaranteeing the perfect neutrality of the isthmus "the United States also guarantees the rights of sov ereignty and property which New Gra nada (now Colombia) has and possesses over the said territory." Our govern ment has hitherto been very careful to respect this stipulation. Thus when In 18S0 the United States intervened in the isthmus the forces sent there were instructed to be mindful of the rights of Colombia and to confine their actions to positively and efficaciously preventing the transit and Its accessories from being "interrupted or embarrassed." The situation then was perhaps less serious than at present and the Amer ican Intervention operated to the ad vantage of the Colombian government. Possibly It will do so now, but it ap pears not to be so regarded by that gov ernment and it is manifestly desirable to avoid an impairment of friendly re lations with Colombia. The condition of affairs In that republic is grave and It Is by no means assured that the revolution will not aoeceed, but our gov ernment, while faithfully fulfilling its obligation, should not invade any right of Colombia as a sovereign state. Un doubtedly there Is no such intention at Washington and It Is safe to say thnt whatever may be necessary to reassure the Colombian government will be done. LENGTH OF TUB VOL LEG C COURSE. In his first annual report to the trus tees of Columbia university President Nicholas Murray Butler declares him self squarely for cutting the college course required for the A. B. degree to two years. This recommendation comes in answer to the protest against keeping students too long in college before launching them upon the active profes sional career which Is the goal of their collegiate instruction and transfers them into the income-producing class. In an exhaustive discussion of the subject President Butler points out how the standard of college work bus been stead ily raised until the bachelor's degree granted at the end of a four years' course no longer represents what it did three or four decades ago, but far more than was required then, wben young men as a rule finished tit college before attaining their majority, instead of as now at an average age upwards of 23. The requirements for entrance today, he insists, are equal to what would for merly give admission to the Junior year, while the instruction formerly constitut ing the first two years of the college course is now secured In the high schools and preparatory academies before the student seeks enrollment at college. The Idea advanced by President But ler is to retain the present four years' course, but to rearrange It so that It will Include a lesser course of two years, the latter to be a prerequisite to further 1. 1 tidy in the professional schools lead- lug to degrees In law, medicine, science and theology, while the former would be offered to those desiring a more com' plete culture course capped with the A. M. degree, or bent on pursuing the more exacting researches for which the doc tor's degree is the prize achieved. That the tendency is everywhere to ward a shorter college course and more strict requirement for admission to the professional schools Is plainly visible. In all the larger educational Institutions the development of the elective system has lieen to substitute foe the last year of the college course the first year's work in medicine, law or advanced scl- euce for those who figure on continuing professional studies at the same institu tion, but discriminating to the extent of a year's Instruction against students from other Institutions. To an unpreju diced mind this handicap In the profes sional schools on graduates of other col leges as against those from the collegiate deiartment of the same university has never apjieared Justifiable. In toe field of higher education. If nowhere else, pure democracy should rule and merit alone win, with each competitor accorded equal terms with every other. That In Itself proves the unreasonable and un tenable character of the present college course with intermittent fourth year and affords the basis for President Kllot's move at Harvard to graut the bachelor's degree at the end of the third year with out deferment to students completing the required work and the present rec ommendation of President Butler, which will doubtless be denounced In many quarters as revolutionary. The college course is in a state of flux Just at present It Is beaded in the direc tion outllnud by !resldent Butler, but to carry it the whole distance be advocates will take considerable time. So far as the western colleges are concerned, es pecially those supiHirted is state uni versities out of public funds, the safe plau Is to keep close to established usage until the eastern Institutions with large private endowments that enable them to experiment freely get nearer to equilib rium by solving the more perplexing part of the problem. 1ARIFF COMMISSION" FLAN. There appears to be some misappre hension in regard to the" tariff commis sion plan suggested by President Itoose velt. It Is explained that what the pres ident contemplates Is not such a com mission as that of twenty years ago, but a permanent body, w'hose function should be not to frame tariff laws and fix tariff rates, but to furnish the neces sary data upon which congress may do these tilings. For example, It is pointed out that in the matter of bides uobody knows, definitely und conclusively, what the effect of the duty has been tqiou the price of bides In this country and lu South America, its effect ou the do mestic leather manufacture, or on the export trade In boots and shoes, or even on the domestic prices of those articles. It is suggested that if an Inquiry were made along this line by men having the public confidence their conclusion would go a long way towards lessening the friction between east and west which every mention of the subject now cre ates. There is consensus of opinion that a tariff commission like that of 188. would be practically useless, us was the euse with that one, but perhaps such a com mission as the president Is understood to contemplate, having the single pur pose of furnishing congress with in formation us to the effect of schedules, would be valuable. There seems, how ever, to be uo great interest taken in tho commission suggestion uud it Is not likely to be favorably regarded by cougress. IANAL TRANSPORTATION. A question before the people of New York which Is of Interest to the produc ers of the northwest is that of improv ing canal truusportutiou between the lakes and tidewater. Both parties lu that state are lu favor of canal Im provement, recognizing thut there Is a situation where the commercial su premacy of New York City Is threatened because the canal system has not been sufficiently improved to meet the re quirements of commerce. There Is a difference, however, as to plans, and this may for the time being prove fatal to the proposition. Sooner or luter the Erie canal will have to be enlarged and deepened, If New York City Is not to lose a material part of its commerce. For several years other commercial points have been drawing trade from the metropolis and those who have given intelligent consid eration to the matter express the belief that this loss must go on and probaoly become more "serious In the future If canal transportation is not improved. The question of doing this has been discussed for years, but of course the railroad influence Is against such im provement, for the obvious reason that its effect would be to keep down freight rates during most of the year. Besides it would involve a heavy expenditure, estimated at not less than 185,000,000, and this naturally causes a considerable opposition to the project. The matter Is before the people of the Empire state lu the present campaign, but no confi dent prediction can be made as to what their verdict will be. Western pro ducers would welcome such canal im provement as is proposed. CORPORATIONS AND UHIBFRY. The disclosures In the St. Louis bri bery cases should arouse the public to a sense of the prevalent evil of official corruption In the Interest of great cor porations and to effective action for re forms. The discovery that a gigantic conspiracy has carried out a series of schemes for the enrichment of corpora tions at the expense of the public by wholesale bribery of the city council of St. Louis aud the legislature of Mis souri, involving corruption funds mount ing up Into hundreds of thousands, seems startling and at first sight ex traordinary. But the truth la that the evil is not peculiar to Missouri, but has so universally affected all branches of our government, municipal, county, state and even higher, as in some sense to warrant description as "a conventional crime," which one of the attorneys for the defense in bis address to the Jury applied to it No more flagrant and dangerous de bauchers of official morals are to be found than corporations operating un der public franchises, the very granting of which, as well us the scope and con ditions of their organization, is often rooted In bribery. Instead of regulat ing and disposing of public utilities ex ploited by railroad, telegraph, express 1 telephone, gas, water, street railway and I the like corporations, In due regard for the public Interest legislative bodies are seduced by blandlsbmeut and bribery to betray their constituents and to become the Instrument of corporate greed. The trained lobbyists, smooth attorneys. brazen bribers and agents of the cor porations in every state of the union swarm about every official body clothed w ith important powers as buzzards are attracted by carrion. The serious fea ture of the St Louis case is not Its Individual flagrancy, but Its representa tive character. It is true that there are penal statutes against bribery, but their enforcement has fallen into desuetude. Though the fact of wholesale bribery in innumera ble cases is a matter of public notoriety, as a rule nothing Is attempted for its punishment or if attempted nothing comes of it. Occasionally the outrage goes so far that investigation must be Inaugurated, but even that too often comes to naught under the corrupt ma nipulation of the same coi'iioratlons that were the procurers of the original crime. Those who manage them, moving in as air of respectability, armed with all the weapons of wealth and Influence in business, political and social circles, thus strike a dagger to the heart of free Institutions and yet escape the punishment which would overtake the humble offender. The only remedy Is in the hands of the people themselves. The penalty of the law must be enforced upon the corporation criminals, however high and arrogant, who corrupt goverumeut to sordid ends, no less than uimu rene gade officials wno make merchandise of their places. The movement at St Louis which has placed behind prison bars a weulthy professional corruptlonist and corporation brilier Is worthy of universal emulation. What If the merger Ismscs assume not to recognize la 1 tor oruunUnt ions' The fact of labor organization never theless exists aud will have to le dealt with. Combination of .worklugmen In the line of their common Interests is as much a development of Industrial condi tions us combination ou the capitalistic side. It cannot be gH lid of by at tempting to ignore it. It is one of the towering facts of the industrial and so cial situation of the present age, to which willingly or unwillingly, roolishly or wisely, adjustment must iti the end be mude. If it turns out to lie true that the Union Pacific shops at North Plutte are not to be pulled up by the roots because the citizens of North Platte ure willing to do peuunce and crawl ou their mar row bones before Bombnstes John N. Baldwin, the people ot Grand Island, Sidney uud Cheyenne wilt have good grounds for a damage suit to compen sate them for the disappointment and the false hopes held out that the repair work heretofore done ut North liutte would be transferred to their tow us as a reward for good behavior. The lute New York democratic state convention is said to have coniuimd among its membership prominent demo crats who hud not participated in party organization since the uomiuutiou of Bryan in 18!H. Colonel Bryan has re peatedly declared that these men are not democrats und huve uo place in any democratic body, but lu New York they seem to repudiate the Bryun definition as to what constitutes a democrat. The bribe giver, as much as the bribe taker, Is dangerous to society, although the offense of the latter is not to be ex cused. But If goverumeut is to be purged of corruption, punishment must be meted out to those who poltsou the very sources of authority and who for personal ends or corporation greed offer temptations to men in public place. Thawing Oat Heroism. Baltimore American. Like all other great disasters, the strike is bringing out some phenomenal heroism. Of this class is the statement of a gas company in Brooklyn that it will tun its works at a loss rather hun see the public suffer. Itellcs of Other Days. ' Buffalo Express. The open car is still doing its bept to keep up the pleasant fiction lu the public mind that artificial warmth Is not needed yet, and in its aid to the Imaluatioa may be considered in the light of a public bene factor. Innocence Abroad. ' Chicago Post. General Dewet was much Impressed by his reception in Brussels and naively de clares: "la the presence of this enthusi asm we ask ourselves why was there no lnterveutl6n?" Evidently the general hasn't learned that shouting la exhilarating and cheap. Will Wonders Never Ceaaef Philadelphia Press. , An organisation of Pullmaa porters rs been formed to stop the tipping p.-snicf. If the members use the p.'o?or amount cf violence they will probably be sole le pre vent people from lei ting too muc'i to the habit that has become ao obnoxious to the porters. How the Nation Growe. Indianapolis Journal. In his address at the cornerstone laying of a new custom house In New York Secre tary Shaw said: "Since I860 our population has multiplied two and one-half, while our foreign commerce bas multiplied by three and one-third." The figures are accessible to everybody, but this was a new way of presenting them. Tarnlnsr from the Cities. Boston Globe. Among the tendencies of the times none is more gratifying than those that are grad ually making rural life less objectionable to the best elements of our society. The tide of rural exodus to the city shows some signs of turning. Those who have been leaving the old farms have more and more dispositions to turn back. The rush of rural communltlea cityward la being stayed and the country districts show more and more marked signs ot being rescued from deser tion. Certainly no more hopeful Indication were possible. City life stands, on the whole, for mental, moral and physical de terioration. Rlotona l.lTln In America. Indianapolis News. Almost do traveler from a foreign land comes here who does not express astonish ment at our luxury. It Is, at least, la cer tain sections of the country, the most ob vious feature of our civilisation. Gorgeous anDarel. homes that are palaces, feasts that are frequently marked by such splendor as almost to stagger the Imagination, superb equipages and a rlotousness In entertain ments and amusements that we have to go bark centuries to flna precedents for with all these things we are painfully fa miliar. They have become so much a mat ter of course as no longer to excite much comment. Normal Production of Hard foal. Philadelphia Record. . During the last fiscal year the total an thracite coal production amounted 'o 6",- 471,667 tona and the total altum'nous coal production of the United States a mounted to 224.769,091 tona. In the same period the total Imports of coal, chiefly from UritUh America, amounted to 1.J41.422 ious rad the exports of anthracite and bituminous amounted to (,971.184 tons. The whole domestic eoal consumption, aothiar.ite and bituminous, laat year amounted to 277. V.o tona, or to a little more than three and a half tons for each head of ne population exclusive of Porto Rico, in rpite of the enormous supply there did not app'ar to be any great plethora of coal production In the country lat year. M4KIM1 I'KOri.K UO TO HlBfll. The Old-Faehloned Was of Rarnest, Beaatlfnl Service. New Tork Mall and Expreas. "Why do not worklngmen go to church?" That Is s question which certain pastors lave been trying to find an answer to, by the aid ot a systematic Inquiry a sort of personal canvass. The answer to It seems at first blush to be decidedly easy. Work lngmen do go to church. All worklngmna do not go, to be sure, but millions do. Church attendance is no more a matter of class than labor Itself Is. Nearly all Amer icans are decidedly workers. Toeslbly It should be explained that the Inquiry was directed toward clearing up the point why so many manual laborers abstain from church attendance. That makes the propo sition considerably simpler; and yet it is In no sense surprising that the inquirers found thtmselvoa completely balked. The workmen who did not go to church hardly knew, themselves, why they did not go, ex cept that they did not care to. The futility of such personal Inquiry ought to suggest Itself, perhaps, by this time. Religious people are agreed that. It great numbers of people do not wish to go to church, it Is desirable to make them wish to go by rendering the services more attractive to them. Out of this conclusion many undignified proceedings have aprung, which, though they may have attracted passing crowds, must In the long run have operated to make still more people feel that they did not want to go to church. Among such meretricious attractions ought to be classed the girl whistlers and their solos, and all sorts ot mountebank per formances and utterances in the pulpit and out of 1:. These aids are to be classed, roughly of course, with yellow Journalism. Their purpose Is to excite people's curiosity to make them come to see what the er ratic minister or the fantastic choir master is going to do next. ' The old-fashioned way of making people want to go to church the method of giv ing them a simple, earnest, beautiful serv ice of adoration and heartfelt worship still serves quite as well aa any other. Services of this sort are not confined to any church or denomination. They are to be found, and properly enjoyed, In all the large denominationa at least. Every per son has his particular notion of the form that his adoration should take, and for that reason there are the two-and-seventy sects. There Is In our diverse, our many sided American church, a religious home for everybody. The doors of the churches are wide open. They are not only willing to welcome anybody they are anxious. There Is no church so rich, no church so exclusive, but that the decently-clad work ingman may find a place there, at one service or another; and If there are churches so well attended that ordinarily no place Is left fdr the stranger, thoae churches at least must have solved the problem of attraction. ALWAYS TUB (iHAD OLD ARMY. Memories Awakened by the Knramp. ment at Washington. Detroit Free Press. More thsn a third of a century ago the grizzled and tattered survivors of the great est national' tragedy in history paraded tha streets of Washington. Tea years ago rep resentatives of the strongest civic orgsnl- ration ever perfected by war veterans, those who were left of the former magnificent armies went over the old line of march. For the third time the capltol ot the nation which they preserved is receiving them; the men who fought the mightiest battles of modern time. They were not an army trained to the mechanical arts ot war, but rallied aa patriots from the paths of indus try and peace. They were the worthy aons of revolutionary fathers joining with the equally worthy sous of an adopted coun try. There Is no new lesson to be gathered from this assemblage of the thinned ranks whose blood warms to the temperature of youth as they clasp hands and fight their battles o'er again. It is no truer now than at the close of the civil war that Its veter ans exemplified the spirit which should in spire American citizenship whenever the constitutional or territorial Integrity of the government Is assailed. Time adds to the appreciation of their sacrifices and conse quent achievements and the highest praise will come from the future generations that reap in full the consequent harvest of bless ings. There is sadness that their number grows leas, that their step la not so quick or steady, and that the gray of age contrasts with the blue of the service, but they are the remnant of the grand old army to whoae glory no decoration, no more praise of words can add luster or durability. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Coal oil ahowa a tendency to go ud. aa usual. All accounts agree that the coal mine presidents are earning their salaries theae days. The annual Veiled Prophets' parade In St. Louis this year had its luster dimmed by the unveiling of the profits around the city hall. Tho revolution in Colombia is believed to be on its last leg. The leader of the in surgents broke the other by falling off a horse. j A member of the Cleveland city council bas been acquitted of the charge of bribery. None of his pals could be Induced to squeal in the St. Louis key. It would be well for the Universal Peace union to note that the richest man la Ger many is Krupp, the gunmaker, who pays taxes on an annual Income ot 16,000,000. New Yorkers are bracing themaelvea to meet with becoming courage the horrors of the coal famine when the elevators In the akyacrapers are obliged to stop running. The time required to navigate the tropic seas between Havana and Hong Kong will enable Consul Geperal Bragg to contemplate the folly of monkeying with aa automatic kicker. With a record of 180 earthquake shocks in twenty-four hours the vernal tale of Guam ought to be able to shake down that additional appropriation which congress de nied at the laat aeaalon. Several hundred paragrapbers have an nounced wltb graveyard gles that "Admiral Casey Is at the bat" In Panama. Aa the admiral wears boots It Is eoafldeataily be lieved he will make a base bit. Only a small proportion of the total popu lation hall from Missouri, but before swal lowing the atory that a St. Louis alderman turned down a $5,000 bunch of boodle the other millions will accept Missouri as an abiding place long enough to exclaim, "You'll have to show me." A bunch of cbilla and fever and a robuat case of bronchitis were somehow per suaded to tackle Ruasell Sage the other day. Where are thoae playful microbes now? Russell shook 'em off aa a terrier would a mouse and with all the energy of his being resolutely refuaed to cough up. He la built that way. Signs of the times point to a mild winter. Wooden nutmegs are plentiful in Connecti cut, New York squirrels are not storing winter supplies, Michigan beavers are atlll la the woods, red eared corn is unusually plentiful In Illinois, goose bones presage a winterless season la Iowa, and the featlvs groundhog Is merrily cbaalng bia abadow la Nebraska. Let's be merry while It lasts, but don't forget the coal bin. RLASTS FHOM RAM'S HOH.f. The weeping religion Is seldom a worklna. one. Taint on the pipe wilt, not purify tb water. Sympathy for others la a salve for out own sorrows. The supreme art of living may be summed up In giving. Life Is a man's opportunity for the reali zation ot hla Ideals. Effervescent prearhlng can produce but effervescent practice. The registers of heaven are not copied from the records of earth. The noise made by some churches Is but the rattling of dead bouea. The llghta of the world are not Illumined by the fires of controversy. Orlef Is God s way of providing us with the oil of comfort for others. When ambition is the child of envy it will be the mother of sorrows. The opportunity is always ready for the man who la ready for the oportunlty. It la no use getting up the ateara of zeal so long as you are choked up with the rust of prejudice. The devil Incltea us to fight for the orn aments of the church while he steals ths whole building. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Brooklyn Life: He Did you snow I was going to propose? .... "Why, 1 dldn t see now you couia neip yourself.' Town Totilca: "What did the lovers quarrel about?" "She wanted him to promtse to love her forever and a day, and he said he wanted, the day for himself." Detroit Free Press: Mr. Pore There Is nothing pleavanter than to talk to the ono yoti love best Mks CauHtique You must get awfully tired of talking to yourself. Brooklyn ErkIc: "Mrs. Storm ! a great advocate of woman's rights. Have you ever heard her discourse on trie subject?" "No; I've never heard her get any further than woman'a wrongs." Philadelphia Record: Ethel What Is more aggravating than a man who tells you of his love and never n.ontlons matrl nionv ? Edith Oh, a man who tells you of his money and never mentions matrimony. Philadelphia Prens: "Ah!" Joyfully ex claimed the old-fashioned man, whom she had accepted. "I was determined to win you." "Yes," she replied, "but I didn't think you would stoop so low." "How? When?" "When you passed my lips and kissed my hand." Philadelphia Press: "He's quite a star as an after-dinner speaker, Isn t he?" "Star? He's a regular moon. He be comes brighter the fuller he gets." Sketch: Doctor I am very glad to tell you, Mrs. Hodges, that your husband will recover, after all. Mrs. Hodges Law, elr, don't say that! Doctor Why not, you unnatural woman? Mre. Hodges Well, you see, sir, after I'd sent for you, air, 1 toon an' aold all hla clo'es." Soeh a- Madneas. Baltimore News. A damsel from far-off Bulgaria Sang all night on a Lohengrin aria, And the ililid flour front enltt: "If you were only dead, I'd contribute ten dollars to burta!" THE NATION'S PHAYER. Chicago News. God of our fathers, Lord of All. Who sits ot Justice for a throne. Both right and might are Thine alone, Beseechingly on Thee we call. Forbid that greed ehould vanquish right. That haughty power and selfish lust Should strangle Justice. Thou art Just' Let Justice triumph by Thy might. Save us from foolish men and blind. Who sell their souls to save a causa And trample under foot tne laws Thou hast decreed for all mankind. Have mercy on the few who hold The millions welfare in their-hand. Who fall to see or understnni That justice pays a thousandfold. And pity. Lord, aa pity's Thine, The arrogance that mounts a throne And robbing Thee of what's Thine own Proclaims it rulea by right dlvina. Let caste and class be checked again. And ranks and orders, let them pass, And let ua, looking at the mass. Find belnga God has made for men. And give us patience to command. The faith to hope that right at loot Will triumph; till the storm la past Let reason lead ua by the hand. 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