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TIIE OJIAITA DAILY BEE: TIIUJRSDAT, DECEMBER 25, 1002. Tiie 'uniaiia Daily Her E. ROS2WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MOKN1NG. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Nee (without Sunsny), On Year..4" Unity l(ee anu 8unuay, one Kcar .0U Illustrated br. One 1 ear Kunriay Hee, One Year ii.OJ baturnay Hie, one Year l.oo '1'wentleth Century Farmer, One Tear., l.uu DEL1VKKKD 11T CARHIER. Dully flee (without Sunday), per ropy.... 2c Dally Iteo (wittiuut Sunnay, per wek....lic Daily Bee (including bunday), per week. .lie Sunday Hec-, r copy , 6c Evening Bee (without Hunday), per wwk 9c Evening Bee (lnaludlng Bunday), per week 10c Coniplalnts of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omnha city Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs-Hi Peari Street. Chicago ltrlti Unity Building. New York 2.118 Park How Building. Washington 6l Fourteenth Street. - CORRESPONDENCE. rommiinlcatlotis relating to news and edi torial matter should he addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: Ueorge B. Tischuck. secretary of The Bee Puullshtng Company, being uuly sworn, ays that tha actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday ee printed during the month of November, WW. was aa follows: X... S1.4TO 16 88,435 t 2tf,4SO 17 80.UUD I ft 1,0410 18 30.8T0 4 Sl,3KO ' 1 BO.IMO 41 .Or 20 SO.eMMI 84.JWH) 21 80, (KM) 7 31.210 22 31,410 3,3tO 23.', 2(4,310 ( JTU,675 24 3U.U20 10 3 1.3(H) 2a... ;. .31,01(0 11 80.UTO 24.. .t 81,(M)0 11 80.7OO 27 8),7fM 12 SO.eUU 28 Sl.l.'IO 14 80,730 29 31.4HO U 81,310 K 24,475 ToUl 032.U10 Less unsold and returned copies.... 0,237 Net total sales ,..022,078 Net average sales 30.7B5 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence ar.d sworn to rerors me thla jKJih day ot November, A. v. M. B. 1IUNGAT E, (Seal) Notary Public. Merry Chrlctmns. And the game to you. Christmas Is the children's day. See that they get the most out of It.. By the way, Santa Claus, don't for get to leave Guiana that new audi torium, When It comes to Christmas presents TJucle Sam beats all his Euroiean cousins out. ' " The ship subsidy bill can' be pu$ in the class of rucasurcs that will not be floated at this whhIou of congress!. ' , It won't be a very efficient war measure hereafter to cut the cables if Marconi's little scheme works out all right Tho way ex-Governor Hogg of Texas la denouncing the story that oil has been exhausted at Splndletop indicates that tie still has oil well stock to sell. The luckiest strike In oil In Nebraska to be anticipated In the near future will certainly be that of Governor Mickey's appointee to the state oil Inspectorship. With disastrous earthquakes, famines and other mishaps of nature In so many countries, Americans may well conclude that theirs Is after all a pretty good land to live in. The news that a violent snowstorm has been raging In and about Constan tinople affords little consolation to the paople here who see their coal piles melting away, while prices are still at airship altitudes. If Mr. Vanderbllt gets daily health bulletins In the papers during his pres ent sickness how often would the phy sicians have to announce the condition of their patient If J., rierpout, Morgan were under the weather? The congressional mill has closed down for the holidays, but the third house consisting of the Washington correspondents Is In continuous session, doing icven more legislating than when the legislator, are there. Army officers everywhere are, with few exceptions, In favor of the resto ration ofthe, ranteeu-. After another experience or two with holiday cheer furnished by the groggerles on the fringe of 'tho posts the verdict will be unanimous. Notwithstanding Secretary Shaw la a radical gold staudard man,' he did not let the silver .anniversary of his mar riage go by without due celebration with his friends. Still his political enemies may, make a handle out of the fact that be would ' permit no "presents. Judge McTbersOri's decision overrul ing the Iowa supreme court and holding that express companies can handle liquor packages for Iowa C. O. D. from other states did not came In time for Christmas business in the prohibi tion counties, but It will answer every exigency connected with New Year's awearing off. j a j The situation with reference to the tatebood bills pending In the senate may be summed up briefly In a few . words. All the senators are for the ad mission of all tho territories, but they aret agreed on the time that admis sion s&ould take place. If a rote were taken oft the date statehood should be come effective it would vary all the way from next week to. next century. A strong effort Is being made to re habilitate the bicycle trust, which got punctured on the rough road of syndi cate nuance. The scheme Involves prac tically a heavy asseosment of the stock, showing that in- the end it is the-stock-bolder that gets the worst of it In such case. They will have to .sacrifice their stock or put up more money on an un certainty a to pulling their enterprise through. (RMSTMAS. ' The one day In the year that Is always welcome and is welcomed by all, ' that never loses Its'-power to gladden and cheer, that "Is ever an , Inspiration to kindly offices and generous acts. . that whether the sun shine or the sky be leaden with winter storm 'still diffuses a Ki'iil.il and Joyful Influence, that Is the most truly symbolic of Christian days the merry Christmas la with us again. 1 We need not be concerned about the j genesis of this day, whether It had its origin In barbarous times ages before the Christian era or had a more recent beginning. Neither reed we be troubled with considering the past or the various methods of Its observance. We need only be concerned with the spirit of the day as we find it and with the Influences It exerts, nnd In-, these there, appears every renson why. it should rank tirst among days In the affection and appreci ation of the Christian 'world. If the observance of Christmas is getting far ther away, with each succeeding gene? ration, from the austerity which once characterized It and becoming more and more festal and Joyous, it is' not there fore losing its moral and religions In fluence. On the contrary, there' is reason to ' believe that In its newer character, in the greater care thati Js taken In Its observance to minister to the happiness of the young, associating with such ministration easily impressed, les sons of the significance of the day, far more Is accomplished for moral' and religious effect than was possible under the restraints which Puritanism im posed upon the observance of Christ mas. ' The churches have remitted noue of their proper labor on this day, though the sermons may be somewhat shorter; the Sunday schools make the occasion one of such exceptional at traction as to draw Into them many children who would not otherwise enter their doors, and Christian beneficence takes a broader sweep on this day than on any other of the year, doing it, too, with a warmth nnd ' heartiness and genlalty that make It doubly valuable. So we say that no matter when or where or how Christmas originated. Us spirit nnd Influences as we find them arc wholesome and elevating and good. The gladness this day brings into .mil lions of homes, brightening the life of childhood and sweeping away the shad ows that hang over the pathway of age, the testimonials of love and friend ship it calls out. the family gatherings it Invites, and the heartfelt greetings It evokes, are all humanizing , and Christianizing In their tendency, creat ing delightful .memories that never fade, but rather become with tho advancing years more delightful and more cherished. May ro reader of The Bee lack today any of its legitimate pleas ures is our sincere "vlsh, and so we ex tend to all the greeting of a merry Christmas. . PROPOSED BVRtAU OF STATISTICS. Among the suggestions for legisla tion which la is said the Omaha Com mercial club will re-enforce Is one for the creation of a Bureau of Statistics for Nebraska, with a view to advertis ing the resources of the state as an at traction for Immigrants and Investors. The promoters of the proposed bureau overlook the fact that Nebraska already maintains a bureau or department de voted to a compilation of statistics and that the work of this department, so far as it goes, Is highly satisfactory. We refer to the work under the deputy labor commissioner, which has been ex panded so as to include the gathering of Information with reference not only to labor and labor conditions, but also to the entire Industrial activity of . the commonwealth. It is true that in the matter of crop reports Nebraska Is behind some other states, notably Kansas, where, under the 8tate Board of Agriculture, a sys tem has been perfected of gathering news of growing crops from the open ing of the season to the completion of the harvest, as well as the usual statis tics as to acreage, animals and farm products. That such statistics for Ne braska are desirable and would ' be useful goes without saying'. Whether a new and Independent bureau of sta tistics Is needed to do this Is open to question. What we should do, If more varied industrial statistics are wanted Is to'strengthen and build up the work of the labor commissioner and place him In position to command the co operation of county authorities and assessing officers. To duplicate present machinery of government simply out of sentiment, or to give .employment to somebody out of a Job, would be un necessary expense without producing any better results. OCH HISTVRIC roLlCT VINDICATED. ' ,It la perfectly gratuitous to assert, as some partisan critics of President Hoosevelt are asserting, that his admin istration has backed down from the tra ditional principles of the Monroe doe trine. The explicit avowals of the Brit ish and (German governments that they propose no Infringement of the Mon roe doctrine, that they Intend neither to oppress Venezuela nor to seise Its territory,' establish the exact contrary. It Is rather a triumph of the adminis tration to "secure recognition of the American doctrine without exasperating asserttveness or unnecessary' spread aglelsm. There Is absolutely nothing new in the position that the Monroe doc trine does not protect South American governments "in wrongdoing, and that they must like other governments, re spond In damages .where the-subjects of foreign countries' "ha va been In jured In person and property. To assume thst'the Monroe doctrine was ever Intended to suspend In the case of the countries of the new world the principles of International Justice aud comity which obtain among civ ilized nations. and which we' ourselves both submit to and enforce upon others, la preposterous. Time and again tb government of ihi United State La paid damages for injuries to subjects of foreign nations, and It Is absurd to suppose that the administration of Pres ident Roosevelt or any other typical American would establish any different rule . for the so-called South American republics, under guise of Monroeism or otherwise. Whst the Monroe doctrine' In Its original Intent and subsequent development does do is to Interpose to prevent their dlsmemlerment or the ap propriation of their territory by Euro pean aggression, no matter on what pretense. The present administration, having f nforced this principle, even to the point of securing In advance positive assur ances of lta observance, the essence of the Monroe doctrine has la fact been vindicated In the most notable manner The preliminaries, to arbitration of the whole subject assume the Inviolability of our position on that doctrine, and the suggestion- of the chief European gov ernments. Interested that President Roosevelt himself shall act as arbi trator Is a precedent establishing the substance of our historic policy with the most signal emphasis. RUO8KVKLT AUD AHBl TRATIVX. President Roosevelt has . received a formal request from the European gov ernments to act as arbitrator in the Venezuelan dispute. There is no Intima tion as to what the decision of the president may be, but having 'already had the matter under consideration aud conferred with his cabinet and others in public life In regard to li, and realis ing also the desirability of an early determination, it may confidently be ex pected that a decision will be reached wlthoutNinnecessary delay. The president has been strongly urged not to accept the task and some weighty reasons are given why he should de cline It, and continue his effort to In duce the piwers to submit the contro versy to The Hague tribunal, which was created for tho express purpose of adjudicating such disputes and is ready to do so In this case. v One of the ob jections to Mr. Roonevelt acting as ar bitrator Is that It would Subject him to the crltlclsmcertaln to follow from the disappointed party to the controversy, but this Is not a consideration that is likely to have any great influence with the president There is no doubt that all the parties have entire and Implicit confidence In his Integrity, fairness and Impartiality and would accept his award without complaint A more serious objection appears to be that In regard to the position which the United States would be placed In. The request of the European governments that President Roosevelt act as arbitra tor la very generally regarded aa an exceedingly shrewd piece of diplomacy, the credit for which belongs to the Ger man foreign office, which very likely was prompted by Emperor William. It Is felt that the president acting as arbi trator would place the United States under some Implied obligation to see that the award is enforced. It vfs ap prehended that" the ultimate purpose of the allies Is to press thla country into some sort of an acknowledgment of responsibility for the conduct of the countries in this hemisphere over which it has extended the protection of the Monroe doctrine. But it would seem that this objection may be removed by an explicit stipulation that our govern ment will assume no responsibility In the matter, that whatever the award of the president It will not in the slightest degree commit the United States. More over, it Is extremely doubtful r? the European governments are actuated by any such motive as some are disposed to ascribe to them. It is more reason able to think that they want President Roosevelt as arbitrator Solely because they have full faith in his wisdom, In tegrity and sense of Justice. We may ' be sure that the . president will give this matter the careful and deliberate consideration which Its very great importance calla for. No one can be more anxious than he for an ami cable settlement of the grave trouble and the country may confidently look for a Judicious determination of the question before him. MINISTER BOfVEN'8 GOOD WORK. The United States minister at Car acas, nerbert W. Bowen, is receiving merited commendation for the ability and tact he has shown since the begin ning of the Venezuelan affair. Imme diately upon the severing of diplomatic relations between the European govern ments and Venezuela, Minister Bowen was entrusted with the task of look ing after the Interests and welfare of British and German subjects in Venez uela and he discharged this duty most acceptably and satisfactorily to the British and German governments. The subjects of those countries have been fully protected and the valuable service leudered by, the American minister has been cordially acknowledged. , Conclusive evidence of the popularity oft Mr. Bowen with President Castro was furnished when he was selected to represent the Venezuelan government in proposing arbitration, he having been given practically a free hand in the matter. All that he has done in the difficult and delicate position of sole rep resentative in Venezuela pf the United States, Great Britain and Germany has been marked by intelligence, tact and good Judgment, giving him high rank among contemporary diplomatists. Mr. Bowen, entered the consular service twelve years ago, during which time he has had considerable diplomatic experi ence and throughout has made a most creditable record. . . No graver danger exists, In our midst than thia Infamous method of robbing the people by corrupting their trusted representatives. -It Is a menace to our civic and political life. It is anarchy, for It strikes an Insidious and deadly blow at government' It substitutes the debauching moneyed power of irre sponsible corporations, acting through their agents and unscrupulous public officers, for the lawfully constituted au thority vested by the people In the muni cipal legislative body to be by It hon estly, and faithfully administered. The higher the tltlon of the persona who bribe or are bribed, the greater la their moral responsibility, because the more potent for etlt Is their wicked example. Benjamin Harrison. The Austrian government Is not going at it right to check emigration to Amer ica. The means it proposes to employ Is an elaborate system of restrictive legislation, which has been tried a thou sand times by different nations, but has never succeeded In the long run. The only true check to emigration Is to make life at home so easy, pleasant and remunerative that people will pre fer to stay there. If this cannot be done, emigration should be facilitated rather than hampered. The younger and more distant chil dren of the republic are turning out to be considerable and rapidly Increasing consumers of Its products. The official figures indicate a total of exports to Porto Rico, tha Philippines and Ha wllan Islands and Alaska of more than $40,000,000, the purchases representing a great variety of staple, agricultural and manufactured products. How much of this goes to Americans In temporary residence there, however. Is not exactly stated. A St Louis Judge has just settled all the perplexing problems arising out of trusts and combinations by declaring that both labor and capital have an In defeasible right to organize, provided only they keep within tho bounds of law. He carefully abstains, however, from defining the bounds of law they must not overstep. Most learned Judge! There are now two announced can didates for the speakership of the house of the next Iowa legislature, to which body the members will not be elected till nearly a year hence. But the ques tion of election cuts practically no fig ure with republican candidates In that state. . Pickled la Its Owa Brlae. . Baltimore American. The Salt trust has given up the fight for Its existence against government pro ceedings. Maybe this Is the thla edge ot the wedge. Coining; Money from Mlsfortaae, Philadelphia Record. The shortage In the supply of soft coal Is almost as grievous as the shortage In anthracite, and the effort of bituminous producers to exact famine prices does not appear to be In the least relaxed. Thus Is tha consumer fleeced. Giving; Fiction a Frost. Brooklyn Eagle. Publishers say that they hare been so overdoing the novel business that they must now print somethlqg besides stories. What chilling news to come just as every second young man and young woman In the land was preparing Immortal historical Action 1 Hints Worth Heedlnar. Chicago Chronlcla, . Some life Insurance cempanles appear to entertain the fixed conviction that ' every policy bolder who dies' Is a suicide who takes his own life la order to beat, the company. If this attitude be maintained much 'longer It is likely seriously to Inter fere with tha writing -of Ufa Insurance poll cles. j . Instincts of Great Haas, New York' Telegram. The Osage Indians have Invested 1800,000 In the state bank and own. 1,600,000 acres of land. Each brave, squaw and papoose In the tribe possesses . land to the value of $4,000, and the interest on their money In the bank affords au annual income of $300 to each member. That's great. Henceforth better call them the O'Sages. Lay Them Gently Away. New York Tribune. The outworn old phrase "high noon" still appears In reports of weddings with tire seme frequency. Is It not time to send It Into banishment together with "the tire fiend," "no reason tas yet been assigned for his rash act" and "he fell with a dull, sick enlng thud?" What excuse for the con tinued existence of such tedious repeditlons of words so frayed and ragged, so loop- holed by the misuse ot generations? And what la the difference between high noon and low noon anyway? It Pays to Be Arcsrate. Springfield Republican. ' If a person Is writing history it pays to be accurate, yet it often happens that a historian will make the most egregious lit tle blunders regarding facta that can be ascertained by anyone. A recent instance is that of Wood row Wilson, In his new his tory ' of the American people, where he writes of the naval battle between tha Bon honime Richard and the Berapta that "neither ship survived the encounter forty eight hours." It would be a plcayunlsh critic, however, who would condemn Mr. Wilson's work aa a whole on that account. Email errors will creep In. "Hitched to a Star. Chicago Chronicle. A grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson drove a wagon the other day carrying coal Into suffering -Boston districts. The writings of his celebrated forbear hava not been without comfort to many, but the coal wagon ot the grandson waa "hitched to a star," aa Emerson advised; it was bitched toftk star of hop for many unconscious of any other species of poetry or philosophy. It Is probable that this is exactly the kind of occupation the sage of Concord would have prescribed for tils descendant under such circumstances. Trad laloa Held for Dasaas.j Philadelphia Ledger. - -A decision of great possible Importance is announced from London in tha Tsft Vale Railway Company against the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. The verdict is In favor of the company against the union, which is held responsible for "ma licious molestation" and interfering with the business ot the railway Vy picketing, intimidation of employes and other means. This case has 'been pending tor l long time and . hss now reached a decision Ja the high court of Justice. The act of Parila men permitting the Incorporation of trades unions waa designed for their benefit, but it Is seen that auch incorporation carries with It accountability. Though the question of damages is reserved by tha courr, tho liability of the union for damages resulting from the enforcement of a strike is es tablished by tha verdict. This Is sufficient reason for the objection generally held by labor leaders In this country to tha prop. sitloB that labor unions should ba Incorporated, IJVB TO PIVB (CORE. Ineroaslna- Aee-Llailt Rfcowa r Ten sas ttetaraa. Tha ready reckoner of tha bureau of vital statistics In tha census department has reared some tall columns of figures on human ages, and is contemplating the fin ished product with much satisfaction. Ev erything about life and death which the census takers could gather are piled up on these columns, and furnish an abundance of material for those who thrive on figures and figurative conclusions. A correspond ent of the Record-Herald found much meat In them meat for thought and specula tionand deftly masticated them Into prose. One of the most important facts thst the ready reckoner hss logically de duced from his comprehensive material Is that which proves that there ara mora cen tenarians accumulating In thla country dur ing every decade, and the natural corollary that the average length of life within' our boundaries is appreciably increasing. First of all, we find In thla report the statement that there are, or were In 1900, 8.53C persons In the United States who are 100 years of age or upward. This may not seem particularly impressive as an indica tion of growing vitality when it Is placed beside the Item that puts our population at 78,000,000, but It means something alto gether different when on Is told that It gives us twice as many centenarians as there t are In Germany, England, France, Scotland and Servla, with a combined popu lation of -185,250,000. Incidental food for argument Is afforded by a further examination of the figures 'In tha - eases - of the foreign countries men tioned In thla connection by the ready reckoner, and In but One Instance do they rob us of any glory. Ha says that Germany, with a population of 65,000,000, hss 778 centenarians; that England, with 82,000,000, has 14; that Scotland, with 4.000.000, has 46; that France, with 40,000,000, has 213, and that little Servla, with only 2,250,000 people, has a list of E7S who have passed the century mark. Turning again to our own centenarians. wa find that out of tha 8,636 almost two thirds of them are women, the exact roster being 2,247 women and 1,289 men, and that out of the 3,117 that ara native born 1,098 are men and 2,098 are women. There are, It appears, 118 Indian centena rians, two Chinese and one Japanese, and 72.8 per cent of the whole number are ne groes 886 males and 1,667 females. The ready reckoner of the census bureau says, however, that a considerable grain of salt should be taken with these figures regard ing Ethiopian longevity, as the older a negro grows the mora vivid his Imagination becomes. One noticeable oddity In all statistics concerning centenarians Is that showing how steadily the proportion ot the sexes Is maintained among them from one census to the next. More than half ot them, too, are always colored. Ot the foreign born centenarians In the United States, the census man sets down 45 per cent as Irish, 16.4 per cent as Ger man, S.4 per cent aa Canadian, 6.6 per cent aa EnglUh, 1 per cent aa Japanese and 1 per cent as Chinese. The average length of life In tha United tates ten years) ago was, according to the ready reckoner, only thirty-one years. Now, according to tha aama authority, it Is thirty-two years. This isn't much to be come, enthusiastic over, so far aa tha pres ent generation Is concerned, but It means something to the chl!T born 100 years hence, granting that the same proportional Increase continues. In connection with the census Inferences regarding tha prolongation of life It Is poiated out by other authorities that suf ficient emphasis cannot be laid upon the Importance of occupation, or rather tha choice of occupation, among those who wish to avoid the grave aa long ha possible. . Tha following table shows the ratio be tween occupation and mortality among a thousand persons noted by Ufa Insurance companies: 25. 35. 45. 65. 65. Physicians 7 15 21 84 112 Teachers and lawyers 4 7 14 25 98 Musicians 9 18 26 43 89 Domestic servants 6 10 IS 28 89 Commercial travelers I 13 21 39 106 Railway engineers and fire men S 7 16 42 153 Trainmen 6 9 17 36 89 Truckmen, etc 9 17 28 60 146 Watermen, bargemen, etc.. 10 17 24 44 129 Dock laborers 15 24 41 65 137 Sailors ., 18 19 28 45 144 Fishermen 9 11 19 28 110 Agricultural laborers 6 8 13 25 99 Brewers 11 19 31 54 129 Printers 14 22 43 1"3 Tailors 7 14 22 38 97 Copper workers 7 14 25 41 119 Kricklayers and masons 7 13 22 40 nj Carpenters 6 9 17 32 102 Textile workers 8 12 22 46 1H9 Coal miners 6 10 13 44 14 General laborers 10 17 28 42 117 Peddlers ...15 24 37 49 $ Out of 600 centenarians interviewed by American newspapers since the last census waa taken, practically all gave the same rules for the guidance of those who desired to attain equal distinction In longevity. These rules were: Regular habits, hard work, plenty of exercise, simple food, mar rlage and avoidance of worry. All Insisted that tl best of these rules was that pre scribing bard work, and all but two or three were equally in favor of marriage. Half of them. Including many women, declared strongly in favor of liquor and tobacco. MARCONI'S GREAT TRIl'MPH. Tresneadona Importance of Receat Achievements. Chicago News. So gradually has the possibility of wire less telegraphy been made known to the world that the public generally will miss the tremendous significance of the an nouncement now made at Halifax. To ap predate it better one has only to consider that, but a very few years ago telegraphy without wires waa looked upon as some thing well out of the range of possible attainment.' Even , after . its practicability for short distances had been demons) rated the Idea of sending messages across the Atlantic without wires waa regarded aa the dream of a visionary enthusiast. Mar coni, it appears, has succeeded not only In sending messages across the ocean, but in demonstrating beyond all reasonable doubt tbat this 'may be made a regular method of communication for practical purpoaea. The achievement appeals to the Imagi nation not alone as another Instance of man's conquest of material forces, but as bringing a new factor Into play In the social and political life of the world. Like the telegraph, (he telephone and the cable the wireless system must have its effect In bringing tbe ualione nearer together and making them-more closely Independent. In some ways it may be curiously effective In shaping (he world'a history. To men tion but one Instance. Jt haa always been possible heretofore to cut off a govern ment from Its colonies or Its ships or Its troops by the simple expedient of cutting a wire or a cable. In the future time that means of securing secrecy In military operations may be of no avail. It need not be doubted that the young Italian's work will give his nams a per manent place in history, along with the names of the founders of ths cable and telegraph systems. While the principles which he haa applied may not be of hli discovery and while esseutlal parta of the apparatus he uses may have been Invented by others, he It la who baa made them of practical effect. , THE CYlUCa SELF-DECEPTIO. Daaarer of Overdoing tho Doafctlna; Inclination. Kansas City Star. Phillips' Breoks once made tha kindly criticism of harvard university that It turned out men who were more afraid lest they believed something untrue than lest they failed to believe some truth. Per haps It Is ss well thst some people are Inclined to be skeptical on all matters. Buckle used to contend that civilisation had Its origin in skepticism and that to the critical attitude will be due all the progress that the world ran hope to make. Yet there Is danger of overdoing the doubting inclination. Many a man who prldea himself on his ability to penetrate shama is the dupe of his own skepticism. He has as distorted a view ot things as the person who obstinately refuses to see any motives except good ones. The extent to which a man may be deceived by his own smartness frequently appears In politics. A i professional politician who, aa Croker said, is working for his own pocket all the time frequently has no conception of the motives of such a-man, for Instance, aa President Roosevelt. When the president was police commissioner of New York a certain politician In the administration was fighting his efforts for decent govern ment and blocking every move he tried to make. Jacob Rils happened to be in the office when a political police officer came In and attempted to curry favor with his chief by urging a raid on a disreputable place,' where he had Information that the enemy would bo found that night. Rils did not know the man's errand at the time, hut he heard Roosevelt exclaim: "No, sir. I don't fight that way." That police offieet would probably have put the man down a . "suck, ; who3 should have told him that the police' commissioner would not seize any opportunity to strike at bis opponent.- Justin McCarthy tells how Disraeli once observed In a conversation with John Bright: "Of course, we are both In politics for the glory of It." And when Bright protested that he was In Parliament only because he thought he could do something there for his country, Disraeli smiled cynically, shook his head and walked away. For all his shrewdness, he could not under stand such a character as Brlght's. Vol taire, as was perhaps inevitable, consider ing his times, attacked the whole schema of the church. What an advance Is shown from his attitude to that of the author of "The Washerwoman's 8ong," with Its In sight Into the meaning of Christianity for this woman, at least. Of course there Is a lamentable amount of hypocrisy and selfishness In the world. "Frail children of dust," the hymn runs, "and feeble as frail." But the cynic who observes only the cant is as Infatuated as the Irritating dullard who refuses to see any evil in the world. ' A newspaper's news columns frequently recount sad In stances of crime and of beartlessness. ' But that Is because unselfishness and devotion to duty are so common that moat cases of the sort have no news value. It Is tha unusual that -attracts people. The person I whose mind is really open and whose In sight Is keen enough to discern the truth may see plenty pf little foibles and bits of vanity to smile, at; he will discover too many exhibition of selfishness. Yet he will be confronted on every hand with such an amount of genuine honesty, sincerity and regard for duty that he Cannot avoid taking a hopeful view of things. The flist rosy beliefs of youth may prove false. A process of disillusionment may be necessary. But this means simply that untrue values are swept aside and that the person has ac quired sufficient experience to see the world as It la When this process Is complete the man, If he be ot the right stuff, will have a surer faith in humanity than before, because It Is grounded, not on fantasy, but on fact. PERSONAL, NOTES. Senator Teller Is at Denver looking closely after his senatorial Interests. Short weight coal dealers in Chicago are getting full weight sentences from tbe courts. Booker T. Washington can sleep and wake at will. Few men have such .control over their minds. The center -of population of the United SUtes Is in Henry Marrs barnyard, near Columbus, Ind. The Chinese emperor, In his capacity of high priest, has to offer at least forty-six sacrifices to different gods In the course of a year. Robert E. Peary, the Arctlo explorer, la making a tour of Inspection ' of the New York navy yard, looking after . the civil engineering operations being conducted there. -; Miss Anna Hovevslef, who is In America studying our way of editing newspapers and magazines, ia the editor of the largest I newspaper in Norway, the Attenpesten, of Chrlstlanla. When Henry Marr of Columbus, Ind., goes to his barn lot and steps upon a neatly carved slab bearing the inscrip tion "1900" he has 18,650,000 people on all four sides of him, for he is the center of population man of the whole United States. Spencer Trask of New York and George Foster Peabody of Brooklyn have a force ot workmen employed In remodeling Crosbyshire, a hotel on Lake George, where they will establish a vaoatlon home for the young women tollers of New York City. "Vanumanutangi," which Is Bamoaa for the "home of the singing bird," Is the name given to her new residence In the Santa - 1 Merry Christmas. We are going to hang our stockings, Bo they will be the first thing Santa sees, When he' conies down the chimney, From out' the wintry breeze. And snug beneath our blankets, 1 We will listen' to the roar, Of winds that laugh and says it Is ' ' Old gray haired winter's snore; And we feel, while we murmur prayers. - , ' God's mighty good to pause, And think of us, his children, And send .us Santa Claus. Therefore, our store will be closed all day Christmas, as we want the entire day to gloat over the many remem branes we feel so sure of receiving. Thanking you, all for your liberal patronage, and wish ing you a glad Christmas, we are, respectfully, : ' RS WILCOX, Manager. THE OLD RELIABLE teiilLaVUliU Absolutely puro THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE Crus mountains of California by Mrs. Robert Louis 8tevenson. , The spot Is In one of the quletes parts of the great blue mountains and much like the old homo at .Valllma. Dr. Mllburn. tha blind chaplain of the . United States senate, ;iho has resigned, being now In his eightieth year, once said to a senator: "Never allow a session to be opened without prayer-having been first , offered. If you do my boys will be sure to . get Into trouble." The same, in ator recalls that on the day of the Tillman-McLaurla fracas Dr. Mllburn was too 111 to attend and the session was opened without prayer, j The venerable chaplain dovoutly believes t that the trouble resulted from that omission. MIRTHFCL, REMARKS. Somervtlle Journal: The girt who is homely enough to stop a clock Is generally smart enough to know how to keep it going, Chicago Post! "He talka a good deal of the wealth of the country. What doea he know about It?" "Practically nothing at all. He's an aa sesaor." Boston Transcript: David You don't mean to say she rejected your proposal 7 Jonathan Hardly that; she was aort of noncommittal, so to speak. She aid when she felt like making a fool of herself abe'd let me know. Detroit Free Press: "Mrs.' Hunker has the queerest fad," said Mrs. Qlddlnga. "She collects umbrellas." Perhaps she Is trying to lay up some thing for a rainy day," waa Mr. Glddinga' guess. Yonkers Statesman: She Don't you al ways feel annoyed when those pesky rail road windows won't open? He Not always. I saw the president of the road the other morning trying in vain to open one. t . Judas: "There's one srreat ImnfAwmitnt I wish Santa Claua would make this year," said Cumso. "What's that?" asked Cawker. "I wish he would attach a receipted bill to each present." "-" Brooklyn Life: Mooney Brace up, man! Troth, yes luk aa if yes didn't hov a fri'nd in th' whole wur rid. Hogan Ol hovn't. Mooney-rG'wan! If it ain't mcney yea want t' borry, Ol'm aa good a fri'nd aa Ivor yes had. Yonkers Statesman: Mr. Bacon I notice all of the articles of that woman which are now appearing In thla raavaslne are about things which happened years and yea re ago. Mrs. Bacon Perhaps aha gave the articles to her husband to mall. Cleveland Plain Dealer: "It la claimed that there are 60,000 Missouri mules at work In the Transvaal." "What lot of kicking there must be." "Yes, I s'pose that s one of the heeling effects of gentle peace." Smart Set: Clerk Michael, are you about through moving those trunks? Porter Yls, sor; In a few trlnutes. Clerk Well, when you've f.riltihed stretch the life net over the front pavement. Mrs. Hlbawl haa just telephoned from tbe top floor that her husband has fallen out of the window. O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM. By Phillips Brooke. O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by. Yet In thy dark streets shlneth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight. O morning stars, together Proclaim the holy birth! And praises sing to God, the King, And peace to men on earth. For Christ Is born of Mary, And gathered all above. While mortals sleep, the angels keep There watch on wondering love. , How silently, how ellentlv. -J The wondrous alft Is a-lven! So God Imparts to human hearts The blessings of His heaven. No ear may hear His coming; But in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive Him stUL ' The dear Christ enters in. ( . Where children pure and happy Pray to the blesad Child, . , Where misery cries out to thee Son of the Mother mild; Where Charity stands watching, And Faith holds wide the door. The dark night wakes; the glory breaks And Christmas comes once more. O holy Child of Bethlehem, "4 Descend to us, we prsy! 4, Csst out our sin, and enter in; ' . . Be born in us today. We hear the Christmas angels The great glad tidings tell; ' O, come to us, abide with us, Our Lord Emmanuel! ".