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When the courts get through with the
market house' question the mayor and
council may get another turn at Jt.
General Chaffee does not want Omaha
to worry about the Moro question, and
we feel sure his advice will be followed.
Some Inquisitive people would like to
know why Goyeruor Savage has not yet
found time to take that lid off Joe
Bartley's cigar box. ;
Those government land grabbers who
nave gotten themselves into trouble
thould have heeded the elder Welter's
advice to beware of the widows.
The railroad corporations dolng busi
ness In Omaha and Nebraska tan be HM
urcd thut tho question of taxation trM
never be settled until It is settled right.
And why should not a big meat pack
ing plant be built of fireproof construc
tion In the first place, rather than take
the hazard of repented fires and rebulUl
Inge r
The lesson of the St, Louis boodle
cases Is that if a rich man does not want
to spend his time In the. penitentiary
he must not spend his money corruptly
In politics.
It Is to be hoped that the speakership
contest will be speedily closed by agree
tnent on "Undo Joo" Cannon in order
to get relief from the newspaper puns, If
far no other reason.
According to the formal statement of
Che Lehigh Valley Coal company before
the arbitrators, the mine workbr's life
In the employ of that company must be
one continual round of pleasure.
In addition to the good example which
President Mitchell has set for the cor
poration lawyers In many other respects,
be has lately been teaching them some
valuable lessons In good manners.
It will take the public Jury Just long
enough to read the proceedings before
the anthracite arbitrators to reach a ver
dict that la - President Mitchell "'Wayne
MacVeagh has met more than bis. match.
According to a local contemporary,
Sioux City ho?s aro to be scalped and
ealded In South Omaha hereafter, but
what will become of the Sioux City
squeal hus not, been Intimated.
The constitution of the Uulted States
does not require thut the speaker of the
house be a member of .the house, but
custom makes law. The next speaker
and several speakers after him will be
members of the house.
It la to be hoped that fhe surrey of
projected suburban electric railways will
end In something more substantial than
the construction of paper tramways.
Promoters of electric railroads have
heretofore dealt altogether in options In
futures. j
As usual winter's advent threatens to
pvertake severnl "unfinished street pav
lug contracts in Qtualut. It seems that
no amount of experience will persuade
trr proiierty owners to take time bv the
forelock and force street Improvements
In the spring instead of in the autumn.
yA Kansas City suburb has declared
war against cats and dogs because they
are believed to be lu a large measure
responsible for the epidemic of small
pox that prevails there. A wholesalo
slaughter of the canines and catlues by
police saultary offl.frs and private cltl
gens is now lu progress. Should the
anti-dog aud cat crusade 'reach Omaha
the patruluieu laid off recently by the
police board might have to be reinstated.
FRORLKMH FOR THK LtOISLATVRE.
The coming legislature will be com
pelled to grapple with many grave prole
leins. First and foremost among these
nre the questions of revenue law re
vision, tax reform, state debt, deficiency
appropriations, revision of the dejiosltory
law n nd constitutional amendments. -At
Its very opening the legislature Will be
confronted with a fiuitnclal exhibit and
an estimate of appropriations believed to
be, necessary for the maintenance of
state government Hnd slate Institutions.
With a state debt that has passed the
$2.000,lH mark In spite of the constitu
tional limitation of flOo.OOO, the legisla
ture will be expected to appropriate
54,000,000 to meet current expenses of
state government and the maintenance
of educational and correctional institu
tions, or about $1,000,000 more than has
ever been appropriated by any Nebraska
legislature for the same period.
Where Is this enormous amount of
money to come from under the present
lopsided system of taxation that enables
the owners of one-fourth of the entire
wealth of the state, namely, the rail
roads, to evade their Just share of the
taxes and shift them upon the owners
of the other three-fourths of taxable
property? If It la absolutely necessary
to appropriate 12,000,000 a year to meet
the expenses of state government, doea
It not necessarily follow that the state
debt Instead of increasing at the rate of
$100,000 a year will be increased by
$250,000 a year and mount up to $3,000,
000 within less than five years?
If the state debt Is to be reduced In
stead of Increased, how much of a tax
will the state have to levy for 1903 and
1904? Manifestly, we must either cur-
tall expenses of state government all
along the line and resist all demands for
the enlargement of existing state institu
tions or the creation of new ones or pre
pare to have the state thrown into the
hands of a receiver at no distant day.
The truth of the matter la that Ne
braska has for years been wearing a
strait-Jacket constitution that has pre
vented expansion where evolution and
growth made it imperative and at the
same time prevented retrenchment where
It could readily be effected without Im
pairing the efficiency of public service.
The enormous Increase in the state debt
within the past ten years is not alto
gether due to bank wrecking and em-,
bezzlement. It can be readily traced to
legislative extravagance and appropria
tions largely In excess of the income of
the state, and last, but not least, to
wastefulness and unbusinesslike man
agement in state institutions.
There is great opportunity for cour
ageous men of brains and business tact
to render the state invaluable service
and distinguish themselves during the
coming session of the legislature, which
will have ample time to deal with all
the Intricate economic problems.
BKTTIR WAGKS FUR RAILROADERS.
Tie railroad corporations are at last
beginning to realise that Joey .cannot
safely stand out against Increased wages
to their employes. Their profits have
been enormous, notwithstanding thelr
full extent has been obscured by the
legerdemain of reorganizations and
mergers, the, appropriation of extraor
dinary sums for permanent improve
ments, and dividends on many of the
stocks have been raised to 6. 7 or even
a higher per cent, still the companies
are currying surplus account Increas
ing In magnitude every year, and. in
some cases, like the St. Paul and North
western systems, amounting to millions
of dollars.
In spite of this fact, the roads have
only grudgingly conceded Increased
wages during these years of unparalleled
prosperity. The average advance of
wages has followed .at a long distance
In rear of rise of net earnings and is in
ridiculous disproportion to it It has
been on the average not to exceed 10
per cent, or only a fraction of the en
hanced cost of living.
Beyond all question the situation Jus
tifies a demand for a substantial general
advance of the wages of most classes
of the employes. Although they have
proceeded cautiously and conservatively,
It Is Incomparably better for the com
panies to yield to the demand than to
sustain the losses which demoralization
of traffic by strikes would inevitably
entail., Within a few weeks more than
a score of the companies have made
settlements with employes on this basis,
and undoubtedly many more are to fol
low. '
There is certainly no public disposition
to deny to the railroad companies a fair
and even a large share In the era of
prosperity that is now at its height It
would have been better, however, if they
had shown a readier disposition to ap
portion the results of prosperity, on the
one hand by readjustment of charges
and tax contributions, and on the other
by more liberal wages to the labor em
ployed In conducting transportation.
Public sympathy, therefore, will be defi
nitely on the side of the employes until
the movement for affair settlement shall
have been generally successful.
IttPARTMtUT OF VOMMtRCt.
It Is regarded as practically assured
that congress will at the coming session
puss the bill providing for a department
of commerce. In which shall be embraced
a number of bureaus now in other de
partments',' chiefly lu that of the treas
ury. "8o fur as appears there is no con
siderable opposition to the proposed new
department, it being generally admitted
that it is necessary and would be of
material advantage to the Industrial and
commercial interests of the country,
which for several years have been urg
ing the creation of such a department.
The arguments in behalf of a depart
ment of commerce have been repeatedly
and amply set forth. The sufficient Jus
tification for creating the proposed de
partment is found in our great com
mercial development, the extension of
which Is uteadlly going on. It is mani
festly Important that the national gov-
ernmeut shall give more attention to the
commercial Interests of the country than
It Is now enabled to do and for this
purpose a new department, created for
this ieclflc object, is essential. There
Is no doubt that public sentiment, or at
any rate the business portion of It, is
with practical unanimity in favor 'of a
department of commerce and there Is
no good reason why Its creation should
be longer deferred.
A CALL tUR I'.aRLY ALT1UA.
There Is a very general feeling that
the time has come when the hands of
the Interstate Commerce commission
should no longer be tied. At the last
session of congress representatives of
various business bodies urged the
passage of the Nelson-Corliss bill, tho
general features of which have been
explained In these columns, and it is
more than probable that that measure
would have been passed but for the sup
port given the Elkins bill by the railway
Interests.
The latter measure has undergone re
vision and amendment since the adjourn
ment of congress and will be brought
forward at the coming session with
such changes as in the Judgment of the
executive committee of the Interstate
commerce law convention are essential
to render the law to the greatest possible
extent effective. It la to be observed
that the committee occupies a neutral
attitude In relation to the provision of
the Elkins bill authorizing the pooling
of traffic or earnings, but as this is the
really vital point In that measure and
the one that chiefly distinguishes it from
the other bill, it would.seein to be quite
impossible that the committee can re
main neutral as to this provision. It
must take a definite position for or
against the pooling provision and if it
assumes to represent the shipping in
terest of the country -there can bo no
reasonable doubt as to what its attitude
will be. It is believed that the shippers
of the country are by a very large ma
jority opposed to railway pooling and
therefore favor the ennctment of the
Nelson-Corliss bill, which Is very similar
to the Elkins bill except as to the pool
ing provision.
It Is promised that, a very earnest
effort will be made at the coming ses
sion of congress to secure legislation for
increasing the authority and powers of
the Interstate Commerce commission,
but It cannot be confidently said that
anything will be done. There Is the
same irreconcilable Issue between the
railroads and the shlppei-s and It la to
be apprehended that there are euough
men in congress controlled by the rail
roads to defeat legislation in the Interest
of the shippers. The tight, however, for
amendment of the interstate commerce
law so as to increase and strengthen the
authority of the commission, in order
that it may be enabled to correct exist
ing abuses, will not be abandoned and
It is not to be doubted that ultimately
it Will be successful . ... ,
...
KAVAL KVuLUTloy AXD REVOLUTION.
If in the elaborate tests about to be
made by the Navy department the new
submarine boats should demonstrate
their efficiency, if a tithe of the possibili
ties claimed for them should be realized,
what would become of scores1 of mil
lions expended on fleets of greut battle
ships? The officers of the navy have been
singularly Indifferent to the subject of
submarine warfare, neither encouraging
nor welcoming the efforts of specialists
and Inventors to develop It, aud as a gen
eral thing actually regarding them with
contempt So, In the days of the old
wooden ship of the line, they were skepti
cal and unreceptive to the possibilities of
armor. This did not prevent the sud
den revolution of naval architecture by
the little "cheesebox on a raft."
Ericsson's Mdnltor, which single
handed could have sent the wooden war
ships of the world to Davy Jones' locker
In a trice.
If scientific opinion is to be given fair
credit it Is altogether possible we may
be on the eve of a revolution of naval
methods through submarine navigation
as sudden and complete as a half cen
tury ago was wrought by the turreted
ironclad. Yet our government is going
ahead building battleship fleets the
same as If they might not any time In
a twinkling be rendered obsolete.
It costs from $4,000,000 to $6,000,000
to build and equip a modern battleship
and after being in commission their
maintenance is enormously expensive.
It would be sufficient to build three or
four dozen of the small submarine craft
It is highly probuble that if the govern
ment had spent a considerable part of
the cost of a single one of the un
wieldy sea monsters on sincere and per
sistent experimentation with submarine
boat it would ere this have developed
a system substantially changing naval
warfare.
It is likely that the congressional dis
tricts of. Iowa will be reapportioned by
the next legislature. The present dis
tricts are very unequal in population.
The Tenth and Eleventh districts, com
prising the northwestern twenty-seven
counties, or almost one-third of the terrl
tory of the state, have a population
equal to that of three districts in the
southeabt. The districts have been little
chauged In a quarter of a century and
population has rapidly increased in the
western, while it has increubtd slowly
lu the eastern, purts.
The report that President Roosevelt,
after conferring with leading members
of congress, bus decided to cull congress
In extraordinary session soon after
March 4 next for tie purpose of revising
certaiu schedules of the tariff, will have
to be confirmed by pretty strong evi
dence before It will be generally cred
ited.
Newly elected members of the school
board will soon be holding meetings to
decide what plans they shall pursue when
they are Installed In office the first of
the year. The distribution of the stalls
Is not half so important to the general
public as the enforcement of measures
of economy and the adoption of a policy
making merit and efficiency the only
passports to favor. Omaha's public
schools can be Improved and It Is false
pride that pretends no higher standard
can be reached.
It may be time that the effect of the
federal anti-trust law has been that in
dependent cororatlous which previously
had made agreements In restraint of
competition to merge and reorganize out
right Into one gigantic corporation. That
is a mere matter of form. The essence
of the evil continues. If the change of
form defeats the law, then the law wll
have to be chauged to defeat the evil
under the new form.
The Nebrnska election returns seem
at length to be very Impressive to the
populist malingers. They are tardy In
diagnosing the situation. The moment
they got power in Nebraska through
assaults upon the republican record
they became Interested In the spoils of
political war and forgetful of the record
they themselves were to make. They
are simply reaping what they have
sown.
The process of the federal courts as
a means of enforcing the acta of con
gress of 1806 and 1871 which provide
for the use of the Union Pacific bridge
on equal terms by railroads seeking to
reach Omaha from the east is a rather
slow remedy. A public grant ought to
He. accompanied by a more prompt
method of enforcing Its terms.
For a state outside the black belt It
will be hard to beat Missouri in the fine
art of gerrymandering. The districts
have been so ingeniously arranged that
the 314,000 republicans who voted in
the election will be represented by only
one republican congressman, while the
350,000 democrats will have fourteen
congressmen.
Discredited "Expert."
New York Tribune.
The result of tho Mollneux trial ought to
put a stop to tho practice of hiring hand
writing "experts" at $50 a day and "ex
penses" to swear away men's lives.
Hot Times lu the Old Pen.
Chicago Chronicle.
The verdict of a St. Louis Jury yesterday
In the case of Millionaire Butler Indicates
that the state penitentiary will be about
the swellest place of entertainment in
Missouri thia winter.
Tot Types of Genius.
Saturday Evening Post.
In a llfetlmo of arduous toll Zola mads
$1,200,000 by his pen. , That was literary
genius. In a few weeks of comfortable
work J. Pierpont Morgan mads $10,000,000
by organizing the Steel trust. That was
financial genius. - -
Pall Together on Om Tan-.
Minneapolis Joarnal.
For once Mr.) Bryan and the renuhllran
party are in accord! Both are determined
that foxy Dave Hill, with his opportunism
and his willingness to' adapt political nrin-
clples to the end of obtaining office, shall
never be president.
Merry Monarch In Denser.
Chicago ;Poat.
It la now urged by the military authori
ties that the sultan of Jolo be deposed. As
thia Is simply a question of how much his
highness will accept as a pension to remain-
for the rest of bis days as a private
Filipino it need not worry a government
with a troublesome surplus.
Sacred Hatlo In Might.
Chicago Chronicle.
A glance at the serried ranks of high-
priced lawyers representing the coal trust
before the strike commission as compared
with the handful of consul for the miners
Indicates that the coal barons are, in this
matter at least, committed to the sacred.
heaven-born and undying ration of 16 to 1.
Liberal Treatment of Employes.
St. Louis Republic.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company will
Incur no loss through its liberal policy to
employes. At 10 per cent increase in sal
aries, amounting in the aggregate to more
than $4,000,000, should be an Incentive to
render better service. The action of the
company Is all the more praiseworthy be
cause It was voluntary. It shows that one
corporation, at least, has a soul.
Cheap Labor In Hawaii.
New Tork Tribune.
According to Governor Dole's official re
port, Hawaii is prosperous, and Its goose
hangs aa high as at any time in Its history.
But he thinks its situation would be Im
proved by the repeal of the Chinese ex
clusion laws, so that the sugar planters
could get more and .cheap labor, and thus
Increase their output But this Is not so
easy a matter as the governor evidently
Imagines. Congress is sot likely to make
fish of its Sandwich poeaessions and flesh of
all the rest, letting la Chinese there and
fencing them out elsewhere, to enrich still
further an already opulent handful of Is
land sugar growers .who ought to ba well
content with the measure of prosperity they
already enjoy. 1
Freemen's Tribal to Roosters.
Philadelphia Record.
The most imposing public demonstration
made at Havana since the Installation of
the Palma government was marred tha
other day by heavy rain, but Its blaring
bands, emblazoned n banners, gayly capar
isoned horsemen and serried ranks of vo
clferous marchers none the less attested
a high degree of popular enthusiasm. What
was it all about? It was in the Intereat
of legalizing cock fighting, and rescinding
the military order, still In force, under
the terms of which the 'Cubans' favorite
sport is prohibited. Here, evidently, is
work for ping pong missionaries and social
reformers, as well as for the heavy band
of military authority.
The Bravo of Moses.
New Tork Sun.
Colonel Moses Clnclnnatus Wetmore, the
chief of all tha trust buBters and the pride
of St. Louis, will not light a duel. Ha has
declined an Invitation to fight sent him by
a Louisville man. Vulgar rumor pretends
that the colonel will not go upon the field
because the other man la a good shot. This
is unjust to as brave a man as ever faced
a trust before selling out to It. While on
a hunting trip with Mr. Bryan in 1S
Colonel Wetmore lassoed a Jack rabbit, hit
a barn door and bad lo pay for damages
to tha cow Inside. His skill is beyond ques
tlon. but he has no time to meet private an
tagonists. While there is a trust in exist
enc Colonel Wetmore will devote his owa
to starting an opposition and making tha
enemy pay dear. .
BITS OP WAPHHOTOI MFK.
Mlaor renea and tneldents sketched
on tho Spot.
Nicholas Jean Fortunesco, a Roumanian
and Alfred Georges, a Belgian, have securpd
American patents on a motor which en
gineers say will Inaugurate a revolution In
the motor line. Motors generally do a
revolution stunt when busy. So with the
new one, but It surpasses Its preJecessors In
two Important particulars It occupies far
less space and can be operated by steam,
water, compressed air or with gaa or Haul
fled air. An eight-horse power machine
built on the some scsle would weigh only
254 pounds and occupy comparatively no
room at all and ran be used for the propul
sion of vessels by direct transmission of
power. There Is scarcely any machinery
from a farm Implement to a steamship
which cannot be run by this little motor.
It has been tried In automobiles and runs
smoothly and without the slightest vibra
tion of the vehicle such as is experienced
In most bt the machines.
There Is no flywheel such as would Inter
fere with the general application of its
power and it can be used in propelling air
ships. It has been used in the generation
of electricity on a large scale, but acted
equally well when for house lighting It
was worked by water pressure from an or
dinary spigot.
During Its operation In the Navy depart
ment it was Illustrated that the little cir
cular affair, scarcely bigger than a wash
basin, could, while In any position what
ever, either vertical or otherwise, be used
with the same advantage as when standing
in Its proper position on the base con
structed for It.
The snap and rim of the trained nws-
paper man Is apparent la the annual re
port of First Assistant Pos naster General
Wynne. His account of th operations of
his bureau for tho past year is set forth in
a readable and Interesting manner. It
seems that the per capita cost to Vncle Sam
of delivering letters in the 933 cities and
towns that have dally service Is approxi
mately 60 cents a year, vhich is regarded
as Insignificant in view of the many bene
fits which the 35,000,000 city patrons get out
of the service. Spck!ng of the work of the
letter carriers In dries. General Wynne
says:
'With the ever gtowitg appreciation of
the value ot time end the universal en
deavor to accom.)l'sh a few days or even
hours, results which a thort generation ago
required weeks and months, the importance
of the carrier service has grown enormously
and it Is to be noted that the public espe
cially the business world In evident recog
nition of the ultlllty of the system, becomes
more exacting each year in demanding more
frequent deliveries and collections of the
mails and the extension of the service to
new territory. Notwithstanding the large
annual increase In the cost of Improving
and extending the system, the volume nf
Increase in the dally mails is so great and
constant that the percentage of cost of
maintaining the service, aa relating to gross
receipts, shows no Increase for the past
several years. Indeed, for the fiscal year
Just closed a decrease of nearly 1 per cent
is recorded. On the 1st of July, 1902, the
system had been extended to 933 cities and
towns, including four In the Insular pos
sessions, and the total number of uniformed
carriers at that date was 17,785, as against
16,389 at the close of the previous fiscal
year.
Statesmen of the Jerry Simpson type
who wish their constituents to believe
that they are the same airaple-mlnded
rustics in Washington they always were at
home would do well-to suppress the report
of Mr. Woods, the superintendent of 1 the
capltol, who writes thus of the luxuries
he provides for overworked members of
congress in connection with their bath
facilities: "This bathing room, as well
as that In the senate wing. Is supplied
with a resting room containing a large
ten-plate static electrical machine driven
by a motor. It seems that certain classes
of minor ailments affecting the human
body yield to this electrical treatment and
the machine affords a harmless and bene
ficial tonic even to the well. Both ma
chines have been much patronized during
the last season."
It Is such a nice thing to have a place
where the "human bodies" ot the con
gressmen can get refreshment, while their
astral bodies are mixing with the immor
tals or hustling through the departments
In search of patronage! The only thing
still needed Is the installation of a com
plete rest cure In the dome, a serum treat
ment for sore throat In the anteroom of
the supreme court chamber. Rut to re
turn to the report: "The bathing rooms
now present a pleasing and cleanly appear
ance. With the exception of one room the
fixtures are of porcelain of the highest
grade. The walla throughout are wains
coted with the finest Italian white marble
nine feet and one Inch high. In the ex
cepted room the walls are lined with the
so-called English vein Italian marble. The
tub is of the same handsome material."
One of the publications of tha Depart
ment of Agriculture gives a perspective
view of the natural resources which tha
country squanders annually and the strug
gle to live such waste must entail on fu
ture generations. "One of the first things
which a pioneer does," says the report, "is
to grow crops which require little capital,
like wheat, oata, flax, corn and barley, but
which exhaust the soil. Every bushel of
grain which he sells means the transfer
from his farm of so much of Its plant food,
and our experts have figured to a nicet
bow much of the mineral elements nf the
soli go out In each bushel of the various
grains. The pioneer usually lacks the
means to follow such a system of agricul
ture as will maintain the fertility of his
farm. In fact, American wheat could not
be aold today In the markets of the world
If It were necessary to buy commercial
fertilizers, and the home price would be
vastly increased. We are now drawing all
the time upon nature's accumulations ot
the past.
"There are three Important mineral fer
tilizing elements. The first of these la
potash. It la generally found in tha soil,
but there la only one place In the world
that has been discovered where you can
dig it up. and that Is In Germany. An
other of the important fertilizing elements,
phosphoric acid, la found much more plenti
fully. Large deposits have been discovered
In Florida and more recently In Kentucky.
These beds are tha grave periods of ma
rine creatures of a previous) period. The
third Important fertilizer may be called
mineral, because It is found In the soil,
although It comes from the atmosphere, and
that Is the nitrogenous element. These
three things are taken up out of the soil
very rapidly by wheat and other exhaustive
crops. Flax Is very severe on the soil, and
so Is tobacco or any other broad-leafed
crop.
Habit Connta (or Something-.
Buffalo Express.
Habit counts for something In politics.
Tha whole tier of states from Maine, New
Tork and Maryland on the Atlantic coast
to California, Oregon and Washington on
the Pacific, have been going republican with
such unanimity and enthusiasm In recent
years that It will be difficult to turn any
of them back to democracy again. Many
of them, of course, would go back If the
republicans offered adequate provocation for
tho reaction, but the republicans will care
full avoid this.
You certainly do not
know how generally dis
agreeable you make your
self, or you would stop
coughing. No one can
read or rest in the
same house with you.
Can't stop it? Then
we must tell you about
Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral
No medicine like it for
ing sore lungs, quieting inflammation in the
bronchial tubes, and preventing serious lung
troubles. Ask your doctor if he could give
better advice. iZtSSSZ
" Last fall I contracted a severe cold en my Junes which continued spite
of all I could do. I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and was quickly
relieved. I am now perfectly well.'
Miss Emma Miller,. Fort Snelling, Minn. .
MENTAL ItROEHV.
Editorial Knife Applied to the Cntlcle
of Western Doctors.
New Tork Times.
Tha Missouri Valley Homoeopathic as
sociation, having been goaded Into the
adoption of a resolution declaring kissing
unsanitary, ought now to stand on one
side until report of the popular opinion
of the proceedings begins to come in, when
it will no doubt reach the conclusion that
It may Judiciously go out of business. The
decision was not only absurd, but flies in
the face of the most ancient approbation
and of a practice famllar, kindly, senti
mental and Impetuous which, so far as we
know, has never intermitted since the his
tory ot tho race began. Part the moss
Incrustlng and curtaining the oldest litera
tures and the kiss swims and sparkles
beneath like a drop of dew. It Is in the
Bible and the Iliad and the Indian Vedas;
its symbol appears among the Egyptian
heiroglyphs. There Is no period er known
tribe of men and women to which it was
alien. Its antiquity and sustained recog
nition as a ritual almost sacramental in
Its character should stand as one buttress
of Its defense, and another ought to be
found In its extreme and invariable popu
larity. In its application both parties to
it are always satisfied, or, it not, the fact
Is rarely brought into the court of publlo
opinion for review and cuts no figure In
its copious and romantic records. It ought
to be proof against the census of any med
ical or micrological fanatlo no matter how
many or how Imposing the alphabetical
symbols attached to his name. But one
has been found to lift up his voice against
it as an unsanitary exercise and to urge
Its immediate and general abolition. This
was a certain far western and flagrantly
homoeopathic practitioner named Dr. E. O.
Linn, who has recently so far imposed his
ideas on the association In session at Lin
coln, Neb., that It has embodied them In
a resolution and thus given them the sanc
tion of the entire body. They therefore
take on a higher but not much higher im
portance than if they were merely the
notions of a private and Individual fanatic
and Invite a passing word of mention.
What the learned physician, Sir Thomas
Browne, called "the scandal of his pro
fession" may have been in his time as
In this the large number of its members
devoted to the discovery of mares' nests.
the Implacable diligence of their quests.
or the absurd noise with which then, as
now, they cackled over tho eggs found
in those illusory receptacles. They have
always been numerous since the art of
healing became the possession of -a guild,
were no doubt abundant In the time of
the pious and eloquent physician of Nor
wich, as they have been In all periods
since ' Hippocrates poiaed the pioneer
pestle of the profession, but it la not on
record that any one ot them was such a
lunatic as to propose the abolition of
kissing and hold it up as a practice
prejudicial to health and well-being. There
is much now known to the doctor's art
of which they were Ignorant, but they at
least knew enough to let kissing alone aa
a social and sentimental practice, and in
so far were more enlightened than some
of their successors. Any one of their num
ber who had tried to win the sanction ot
the profession to such a theory would
very likely have been turned out of It aa
one who saw things out of their proportion
and relation, and was either mad as a
hatter or a March hare, or else a fool out
and out, whose resulting pulp when brayed
In his own mortar would have been aa void
of wisdom as penrmlcan. They had many
delusions and fantasies of their guild to
combat, and In thia were in like ease with
those who came before and after, but aa
yet the klssophobe had not risen among
them and there was no surmise or dread
of such an unheard-of apparition. Tha
specter is of entirely modern origin, and
as It does not so far tend to multiply
Itself aboundingly there may be a rea
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stopping coughs, heal
sonable hope that it will soon fade out
altogether, leaving the kiss as before, se
curely Intrenched In private and popular
approval the world over, as It has been
since the days ot Hllpa and Snallum, the
echo of whose chirping osculations no
doubt made glad the far-off time in which
they conducted their Innocent and ante
diluvian courtship. The howling homoeo
path lo Incubus, if such a description may
properly be applied to him who has Just
lent additional dreariness to the gray wane
of Nebraska's perishing October by . flour
ishing forth a theory so absurd as that
which connects kissing with peril from the
ravage of colliding microbes, is Individu
ally of little consequence, and to be spanked
by his fellow doctors if at all, but as he
has led an entire medical association by
its much too extenuated ears into a posi
tion so irrational and untenable It becomes
a publlo duty to hold him up by the tail
of his professional periwig for general
observation and reprobation.
UUHT AND BRIGHT.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Our housemaid
car. Ua cravats beautifully."
"Did she ever tie yours?"
"You're right she did. Once. Then my
wife saw her."
Washington Star: "Don't you dread the
approach of winter?"
' No'ndeed," answered Mr. Erasttis
Plnkly. " 'Tain' le approach dat bothers
rr.e; it's de arrival."
Chicago Post: "I wish you wouldn't let
the baby play with that gold toothpick,"
remarked the anxious mother. "He might
SWfllloW It
"Oh, that's all right," replied the bach
elor uncle carelessly. "I have a string tied
to it."
Philadelphia Press: Overheard In the
Garden of Kden "You are a nastv, mean,
horrled old thing, so there!" exrlnlmed
Eve. "I ouppoee next you will thnuton to
go home to mamma," taunted Adam. Then,
realizing the bitterness of nature's handi
cap, Eve burst into tears.
Chicago Record-Herald: The leading
lady had Just collapsed from overwork.
"You ahall have a play next week In
which you are to wear three beautiful cos
tumes in each act." said the managor.
Bravely she rose and cried out to the
stage manager: "Ring up the curtain; I
have recovered."
Philadelphia Press: McQueery It was"
Rory O'More, wasn't It, who said "There's
luck In odd numbers?"
Lushforth I give it up. but he wouldn't
have said so if he had seen the reception
1 got the other morning when I came
home at 3.
Baltimore News: "I'm In misery. Big
gins." "What's the trouble?"
"Why, I started smoking to show my
boys what a miserable habit it Is and how
It hangs onto Its victim."
"Yen"
"And now I'm trying to show them what
an easy thing It is to quit."
THE FELLOW WHO FIGHTS AXO!VF.
New York Sun.
The fellow who fights the fight -atone,
With never a word of cheer,
' With never a friend his help to lend.
With never a comrade near
'Tls he has need of a stalwart hand
And a heart not given to moan
He struggles for life and more than Ufa.
The fellow who fights alonel
The fellow who fights the world alone
With never a father's smile.
With never a mother's kindly ton
His sorrowful hours to guile.
Who Joins tho fray at the dawn ot day
And battles till light has flown.
Must needs be strong, for the fight Is long.
The fellow who fights alone!
Ah. bitter enough the combat Is
With every help at hand.
"With friends at need to bid godspeed,
With spirits that understand;
But Mercer far is the fight to one
Who struggles along unknown
Oh. brave and grim is the heart of him.
The fellow who fights alone!
God bless the fellow who fights alone.
And arm his soul with strength!
Till safely out of the battle rout
He conquering comes at length,
Till far and near into every ear
The fame of his fight Is blown,
TIM friend and foe In the victor know
The fellow who fights alonel