Nebraska Newspapers

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THE OMAHA DAILY 11EE: SUNDAY, JAN IT A II Y 25, 1903.
Tiie Omaiia Sunday Her
E. ROSRWATER. EDITOR.
PUBLISHED EVEIIT MORNING.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Stat of Nebraska. Douslus County, as I
Oenrga II. Tischuck. secretary of The Baa
rubllehlng company, being duly sworn. iaya
that tha actual number of full and com-
pleta coplea of The Dally, Momma;, even
ing and Hundav Dee Drlnied during tha
month or December, 1
1 S2.2MO
. I 81.120
S1.4TO
4 81,t)tK
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. .80,000
.. 80,000
. .80,970
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16 8C.llO
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Total UM,H3
Ieaa unsold arid returned coplea. ... HMi
Nat total aatea "Siilllj
Net average aalea
QEORQIS D. TZSCHtCK.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before ma thla 81st day of December, A. D.
hi. U. HUNOATl,
(8eaJ) . Notary Public.
Municipal home rule U a good slogan
to stick to.
Governor Mickey's niessnKO on the
land lease bill hits the nail squarely on
tho head.
Ortrnnlzoil lnlor In Omnha has noth
ing to gain by allowing Itself to bo
split up by political Issues.
The explosion of the Hollnnrt torpedo
boat scandal U llnblo to kill off a few
congressuieu for rc-elcctlou.
If King Edward undertakes to cele
brate the "birthdays of all his royal
cousins sitting on European thrones he
Mill add several holiday festivities to
the court calendar.
When Alaska Is allowed a walking
delegate In congress, his mileage bill
will by far exceed his salary, especially
If he halls from the region near the
mouth of the Yukon river.
Most of the time of congress Is taken
p by omnibus statehood bills, omnibus
building bills and omnibus river and
harbor bills. Why not roll all the
bills Into one omnibus and pull her
through?
The first delegate from Alaska will
sit In the Fifty-eighth congress, al
though he will not le elected until
next fall. The first tank before him
Mill be to get his back pay for the year
he Is uitsslug out
After March 4 Kansas will again be
represented In the Tutted States senate
by two republicans something that has
not l;on witnessed since populism
projected Peffer to the front. Kansas
Is to I congratulated.
The most audacious as well as the
mott daugerous lobbyists at the na
tional capital are ex-uembcrs of con
gress and ex-senators, who enjoy spe
cial privileges ou the floors aud keep
up a running acquaintance with veual
members.
The Nebraska Dairymen's assorts
tioil passed resolutions to the effect
that all process butter should lie
branded. Why not also enact a law
to brand all Incubator chickens and
eggs? That will tarry the Idea to Its
natural sequence.
Why shotildn't Omaha go after a few
of the conventions of state orgimlxa-
tlous that 11111 In Lincoln aunuully?
Is there any good reason why these so
cieties should not accept Omaba'a hos
Vitality at least every oilier year?
Where Is our' rcorguuiced Commercial
club?
V syndicate of Amcrlcau bauks Is
engaged lu floating a lo.ni of 10.inmI.
Wj for the lVnns.vlvaula railroad Just
as If It were an ordinary every day
tiuam-lnl transaction, wheu had a i.-
(kio.OiK) g-overument loau leeu proposal
fifty years ago they would have had
to avrao for the money to take lu The
world of tlnuin-e has excluded.
i j- j
Members of the American House of
lArd may as well make up their
minds, disagreeable as the thought
may Ik to th-. in. that the electlou of
Uulted States senators by direct vote
of the people will have to lie submitted
soon for ratification as m constitutional
mendmeut qr It will become a main
issue lu a presidential eleotiou, If uot
In 1004 surely in I'.mS.
WaH TILL AX JlHTiritDI
As letween the sensational editor and
the sensational preacher, the Hue of
demarkatlon Is almost Imperceptible,
but when the expounder of divine law
projects himself Into the anna of Jour
nalism to rIoss over or Justify assassi
nation under any pretext be shocks the
moral sensibilities of the community.
Tliose observations are Insplrpd by
the contribution of Sidney Carton, let
ter known as the Ilev. K. V. Tref. who
through the column of a loc:tl pnper
seeks to palliate the awful crime com
mitted by Lieutenant tSovernor Tlll
ninn In the cowardly murder of Editor
(totiznlca on the flimsy pretext that the
Ulx-1 laws offer absolutely no redress
for wrongs Inflicted by merciless
editors.
"You cannot purchnse honor with
money," exclaims Mr. Trefz, "al
though dishonor may bo thus pur
chased. A wicked man can obtain vin
dication satisfactory to hlui In a libel
suit Ix'catisc he hnpens to be Innocent
of that particular charge, but an Inno-i-ent
man has no redress." And then
the resort to brute force and even the
tlendly assault upon the author of a
libel Is sought to be excused by this
Interrogntory : "Suppose a man sought
to take your life, would you not be
Justified In protecting yourself at the
expense of his life, and Is not honor to
the honorable man of more value than
life? a xhe wonder to me Is that
more editors, or newspaper men, are
not killed. They seem to have such a
vague Idea of the really sacreduess of
their work."
Nolmrty knows better than Mr. Trefg
that editors do have an Idea of the
sacreduess of their work. Nobody has
hnd letter opportunity than he to learn
thnt editors more frequently transgress
by showing Indulgence toward rogues
In high plnces who richly deserve
chastisement than by trying to
make them harmless to society by ex
posure and denunciation. Nobody
knows better than Mr". Trefg that edi
tors are more to blame for criminal
leniency toward scoundrels In and out
of office than for publishing their mis
deeds to the world. The man who will
fully betrays a public trust for pelf or
place merits the Indelible brand of In
famy. The man who sells out the peo-
le as a Judge, executive or law maker
Is no better than the man who betrnys
his country to the enemy In time of
rur and merits the penalty Imposed by
law upon the traitor who raises his
nil ngnlust the nation and the flag.
Crying down courageous men who
turn the searchlight of publicity upon
public thieves and bribe-takers and
brlbe-glvers Is a common practice
mong the men who pollute the well-
prlngs of social order and sap the
foundations of free institutions, "Tho
position of the editor," declares Mr.
Trefz, "is perhaps the most powerful
In society, therefore, the editor can
fford to make his magnanimity
demonstrate his greatness." Mr. Trefs
might have added with propriety that
the position of the editor Is most trying
s well as most powerful, and were it
not for his magnanimity scores of men
who hold their heads up with pride
would be humbled In the dust and
other scores would occupy cells In pen
itentiaries.
The Idea that an honest man can
only secure redress for Injuries or men
tal anguish Inflicted by libel by mur
derous assault on the llbeler Is puerile
and preHsterou8. No libel however
vile can seriously effect an honest man
Character, like a coral reef. Is built In
layers, but once firmly rooted It cannot
he damaged or .destroyed. A man of
haracter will outlive all calumny for
ery much the same reason that a man
who travels the straight road Is never
lost.
That Tillman Is not entitled to
maudlin sympathy Is evidenced by the
outburst of popular Indignation at
Charleston, where all the circumstances
that led up to the murderous assault
of Gonzales were public property.
Nowhere In this country Is the code
held In such reverence as In South
Carolina and vbelievers In the code
despise the man who would not face
his enemy. The press, the pulpit and
the people of South Carolina have
siMmtaneously condemned Tillman as a
cowardly murderer and It Is deplorable
that anybody, least of all a clergyman.
should sek to create the impression
that Tillman hnd no other means for
redress of his fancied or real wrongs
than the bludgeon, revolver aud bullet
Is not new, but so far as we are aware
It has never received-favorable consid
eration from practical statesmen and Is
not likely to In the present state of the
world's affairs. A time may Come
when governments may unite upon
such a plan for having their various
Interests and tin Ir relations with each
other discussed and passed upon, but
that time, If It shall ever come, Is In
the remote future. As to whether such
a congress would really be promotive
of amity and good will among the na
tions mny fairly be doubted. It Is not
difficult to conceive of circumstances
that would have a quite different re
sult. The American Peace society Is
to lie commended for Its efforts In be
half of the world's oace, but It, Is an
ticipating by several generations In
proposing an International congress.
same denomination. It Is possible that
this will be supplemented by .training
ourses for Sunday school teachers,
with the eventual enforcement of some
qualification standard for admission to
the teaching force. While it may take
some time to bring our Sunday school
education Into conformity with the
modern Idea, there Is certainly no good
reason why ,we should not move con-
tantly forward with that goal lu view.
Now that the loughomed breeders.
the Shorthorn breeders, the Poland
China breeders, the Shaughal roosU
breeders, the red eyt-d rabbit brocders.
tho bumble ce breeders, the breeders
of short haired midget, loug-hulrcd
freaks aud mloroN-s. have all had thel
say at the state capital aud pull.nl up
Stakes, the lej;l:latlve grist mill will
le permitted to grind along at a steady
(ait without further interruption.
TO VHVMVTE rEAlK.
The American Peace society, which
has Its headquarters In Boston, has
asked the Massachusetts legislature to
adopt a resolution requesting congress
to authorize the president to Invite the
world's governments to ln lu estab
lishing, lu whatever way they may
Judge expedient, a regular International
congress, to meet at stated periods
say every, aeveu years to dellterate
im the various questions of commou
Interest to the nations and to make
rcvomuienduttous thereon to the gov
ernnieuts. It Is pointed out that the
nations are united as never In-fore lu
"ommerclal, economic and other rela
tious, that their material lutert-sts are
constantly aud rapidly Increasing- nn.l
that the questions constantly arising
which eouceru them all so Intimately
require their unltc-J action for prope
solution. The prod congress. It Is
suggested, would le the counterpart aud
complement of The Hague court. The
opluiou is expressed In the memorial o
the soiety that the meeting of regula
International congresses for the consUl
erullou of the various commou Interest
of the nations would exert a great and
g-rowlug Influcuce iu favor of amity aud
tuutua! rood will, would lessen the dan
gets of war and assure the permanence
of iH-aco and the continuance) of pros
prrous commercial relatkins.
The Idea of au International coufreas
FABHICATIXO JVSTiriCATIVH.
Every legislative body, national,
state or municipal, may be divided Into
hree classes, namely, men who are
rigidly honest and cannot be tampered
with or approached by bribe givers;
men who are defiantly dishonest and
boldly do crooked work In the open.
nd men who are only willing to go
rong If they can cover their tracks by
trumping up a plausible excuse or hld-
ng behind some subterfuge.
To this general rule the Nebraska
legislature Is no exception. A' very
largo proportion, if not a majority, of
s membership Is honest and will not
be swerved from the straight and nar
row path. A considerable fraction
111 defiantly disregard public Interest,
party pledges and Individual promises
mnde before election. A very consid
erable number are willing to be se
duced providing they can find a reason
able excuse for the betrayal of the peo
ple. Upon this latter class of mem
bers the corjoration lobby always
lavishes Its most generous courtesies
nd gifts. For this class of receptive
lawmakers the corporation cappers are
always ready to fabricate Justifications
for going wrong.
The paramount Issue that confronts
the Nebraska legislature Is revenue
law revision. Public sentiment Is
roused as It has never been before to
the monstrous wrongs Inflicted tipon
the taxpayers of this state by the un
dervaluation of railroad property and
Its virtual exemption from the burdens
of local taxation. At no time In the
history of Nebraska has there been
such uniformity of sentiment lu favor
f wiping from the statute books every
estlge of law by which the burdens of
taxation are shifted from the railroad
corporations upon the shoulders of the
farmers, merchants and producers of
the state and In favor of laws that will
enforce compliance with the letter and
spirit of the constitution, which re
quires "every person or corporation, to
pay a tax In proportion to his, her or
Its property aud franchises."
The paramount effort of the railroad
lobby and the railroad tax agents and
lawyers Just now is to fabricate Justifl
cations for members of the legislature
who are susceptible to promises, gifts
and bribes, but not courageous to do
wrong In the open. With this end In
view the state Is being flooded with
misleading circulars concerning rail
road taxatlou and bunco figures about
the pretended distribution of the values
at railroad terminals to the interior of
the state, although no man can point
out where a siugle dollar has ever been
distributed between the Missouri river
and the Wyoming and Colorado bound
ary or between the Kansas line And
the Dakotas.
Within the next few days the legis
lature will be bombarded by petitions
emanating from railroad tax agents and
letters Inspired by railroad attorneys
and circulated Id their respective neigh
borhoods by railroad beneficiaries from
rebates and other valuable favors. It
Is confidently expected that after this
bombardmeut of ready-made justifies
tious the spinal rolumnst of members
who are predisposed to go wrong will
be stiffened sufficiently to enable them
to brazeu out the Infamy that will here
after attach to them for selling out the
people.
sr.VD.4r scnouL kdvcatioju.
Thero are gratifying signs that along
wtih the qulckeued activity In the
direction of h ottered work In the public
schools a distinct movement Is on
foot and steadily gaiuing headway for
the Improvement of Instruction In our
Sundav schools. While the efforts to
secure the adoption of special made-to-
order lessons ou a plea for uniformity
has uot met with much success, or at
least with the success expected by Its
promoters, the authorities In charge of
Sunday school work In the various de
nominations and throughout the coun
try are not only being impressed with
their resiHUislbility, but arc also wak
lug up ,to the fact that religious edu
catiou of the young In this country
Is, on the whole, far less systematic
and less effective than that iu secular
brauches Is.
The main source of weakness arises,
of course, from the fact that no ade
quate test of fitness Is exacted from
the Instructors and little or no efficient
supervision malntaiued over the teach
lug wheu under way. As a result, even
the child who Is Intent' on learning
the facts that form the groundwork o
religious belief is either confused by
misdirected Instruction or left to gtv-pe
atstut iu the dark because the teachc
ba,s no Information to Impart. The de
plorahle feature of such haphasard
Suuday school .work Is that It waste
for the chtldreu precious time that ca
uever te made food.
Whether the Suuday school can be
properly organlaed and conducted with
the teaching voluntary and unpaid Is
a serious question, yet lrresectlve of
that, the tendeucy neetus to lie for loca
organization along the lines of the
public school with at least co-operative
uperlutendencs among churches of ths
rnnArt a i.akhkh avt.
Tho Maritime association of .New
ork, through Its president, has sent
letter to nioinlers of congress urging
n Increase of the navy to double its
present capacity. It Is argued that our
rescnt navy Is largely occupied pre
serving order In our oversea territory
nd that our nntloual development calls
for a navy commensurate with our iosl
tlon as a world power. It Is set forth
that the position of the United States
mong the powers of the world, taking
Into consideration territory, population,
Intelligence, .Industry! resources, com
merce and wealth, leaves little to be
desired as to greater eminence, but our
existing navy is Inadequate to enable
us to proiKuiy .maintain the position
Into which our rapid advancement has
carried and Is still more rapidly car
rying us. "Situated as this nutlon Is,"
snys .the association, "with a vast sea
coast that Is washed by the two great
oceans thnt float the commerce of the
world, with a foreign commerce second
only to that of one other nation and
with distant possessions Unit must be
peacefully governed and adequately
protected, we find that In ships, lu offi
cers and lu men .our navy Is unequal
to our many nud diversified needs.
This condition, Is largely due, we be
lieve, to the lack of a naval iiollcy or
program bused upon the needs nud
equal to the demands that mny arise."
This Is doubtless In accord with gen
eral iopulnr feeling. There Is no great
opposition to a larger navy. No one
who has given the matter Intelligent
consideration can doubt tho windoni
and expediency of increasing our sea
power. Some may question whether It
Is necessary to go to the extent sug
gested by the Maritime association and
double the strength of our naval estab
lishment, but there nre few who will
not agree with the statement that It
Is not ,ot present adequate for the
proper maintenance of the position to
which the United States has advanced
among the great powers. We should
enter Into no rivalry with other nations
In this direction. The only thing we
have to consider is to be well prepared
for the protection of our Interests
everywhere and these are very much
greater than they were a few years
ago aud are constantly growing. We
do not require a great navy such as
Great Britain has, but we do need to
be strong enough on, the sea to com
pel the respect of other nations and
to Insure observance of our rights in
every portion of the world.
to do so. Whatever she .may think of
the Monroe doctrine she will not, at
feast at present, attempt to contravene
It. There Is no American principle
more secure than that aud It hns loen
made stronger hy recent events. Our
government has pursued the wise and
proper course In regard to the Ven-
zuclan .difficulty and a satisfactory re
sult can be confidently predicted.
The list of personal property assess
ments In excess of fl.oort, taken from
the city tax luniks for 100CI, printed In
this Issue of The Bee, ought to make
Instructive reading for every person
Interested lu Omaha, whether he con
tributes directly to the support of the
city government as a property owner
or only Indirectly as a resldeut That
the assessment Is by no means perfect
will lie readily ndmttted, but thnt It Is
a better approximation of equity In
taxation than has ever before been
secured lu the assessment of personal
property subject to city taxes can be
readily proved. It Is the liost evi
dence of the progress Omaha has made
n the direction of tax reform and at
the same time the best evidence thnt
much more is jet to be done to equnllze
fairly the burdens of government In
proportion to property values. We
commeud every one of our readers to
the careful perusal of this list, pre
pared for them by The Bee with no
little trouble and expense.
AO (WOUND rVR lXTERFKBlKCB,
While the Washington government Is
taking a very keen interest In the
Venezuelan difficulty and is said to re
gard the bombardment of the San Car
los fort as purely needless t.nd revenge
ful, it cannot see any proper excuse for
entering Into the quarrel. It appears
be the view of the executive authorl-
es that w':en the government exer
cised Its good offices to the extent of
bringing the allies and the Venezuelan
government Into negotiations it ex
hausted its proper functions in that dl
rectlon and could do no more.
A great many of the American peo
ple, on the other hand, are of the
opluiou that the United States should
Interpose and notify the European
powers plainly and firmly that the ag
gresslve course toward Venezuela must
go no farther, that while the blockade
may be maintained lu its full effective
ness ponding the diplomatic uegotia
tious for submitting the dispute to arbl
trntlon, there .must lie no more bom
barding of forts or other warlike dem
onstrations. The opinion Is widely
entertained that the course of the al
lies, if not an actual Infraction of the
Monroe doctrine, virtually Ignores that
doctrine, aud If longer tolerated by our
government will possibly have the ef
feet to bring Into contempt this tital
American principle. The feeling Is
especially strong that Germany Is tak
lng this opportunity to show her dis
respect for the Monroe doctrine, once
characterised by Bisinorck as "a great
piece of Impudence" and undoubtedly
so regarded now by some Germun
statesmen.
That recent events lu connection with
the Venezuelan situation are Irritating
aud that th German explanation Is
not satisfactory must be admitted, but
there has been no actual Infraction of
the Monroe doctrine and uutll there Is
Interference on the part of the United
States will not be called for. Siukiug
Venesuelun uaval vessels and bombard
lng Venezuelan forts are nets of war.
but the Monroe doctrine does not con
template the protection of the southern
countries against war. It only pro
vldes for protect lug them agaiust seiz
ure of territory for jH-rmanent oocupa
Hon by a foreign jmwer. The United
States does not and cannot undertake
to safeguard the southern republic
from punishment by foreign nations for
offenses that Invite hostilities, iKM-ause
to do so might Involve this countiy lu
endless trouble. The territorial Integ
rity of those republics aud the security
of their iHilltiial Institutions the Monroe
doctrlue guarantees, but nothing more.
Undoubtedly our goveruineiit has
been given the most complete aud sat
In the year 1001 Douglus county es
$20,27.34, or a total lu two years of
$103,51)4.25. Competent engineers ex
press the opinion that a saving of
$23,tXX might have been effected In the
construction of these bridges hnd there
been fair competition and honest super
vision of the work. There Is now In
the county bridge fund $29,403.07 and
It may confidently be predicted that
this large sum will be dumped luto the
bridge trust hopper unless the brakes
are put on and a new policy adopted
by the board of commissioners In pro-
ectlng and constructing bridges.
POWER THAT MOVES THR WORtD.
"Strnnsr Manhood, RooteA In night,
Dealt with Mrs Me."
Chicago Tribune.
"Wti ran sar with truth," said President
Roosevelt at the seml-rentenolal of tha
Washington Young Mon'a Christian asso
ciation, "that we are better off than we
were. We sso all around us people who
say: Oh, well, things will come out all
right' Bo they will, but because there are
sufficient number of earnest men bound
to see that they corns out all right."
The constant problem Is, of course, to
recruit that number, so 'hat the ranks of
he earnest men may be always filled.
They could not be recruited," the presi
dent --went on to say, "by any effort which
tails to take account of tha fact that they
demand manliness as well as virtue, and
that It Is necessary for them to be strong."
'You get among a body of men," he
added, with particular reference to the
work ot the Young Men's Christlau associa
tion, "and you can make them accept mor
ality If you make them understand thit It
s not only compatible with, but demanded
by, essential manliness. Tha work of the
Young Men's Christian association has
grown because It has not tried to dwarf
the Impulses of the young, vigorous man.
but to guide him aright. It has sought to
see that he Is in the fullest sense a man,
and a good man."
The truth la that a cloistered virtue,
drawing aside from the world, however
lovely It may seem in Itself, never accom
plished anything of real benefit for others.
The efficient reformer must deal with the
world aa It is tfnd with men as they are.
He must descend Into the arena of life and
npon the common level of manhood wrestle
with evil and fight for good.
The men who made and preserved this
nation were men ot that kind. The men
today who are carrying forward this na
tion's mission ot freedom to all the earth
are men who have made us better off than
we were and who will make the twentieth
century better than any that has gone be
fore, v
The power of strong manhood, rooted In
right, dealing with men 'as men, deter
mined In heart and In body, Is the power
that moves the world.
Worse Than a Trim.
Detroit Free Press.
Trying to bribe a member ot congress
with a paltry $5,000 is worse than a crime.
It'a an Inaull.
The Icason of Evidence,
Brooklyn Eagle.
The more we hear about the doings of
Filipino rebels the more we are taught to
believe that American soldiers are better
able to deal with them than are tha
theorists and philanthropists of Boston.
Domes tie Safety Valre.
' . Philadelphia Ledger.
The fact that the one woman member of
the Utah legislature is In favor of Mor
mon Apoatle Smoot for senator caused so
violent a debate in a Salt Lake City
Woman's club that one ot the debaters
talked her Jaw out of place..' We approve
of these woman's clubs; they let off steam
and save the family.
The Bell Geta Another Fall.
Philadelphia Press.
The Bell Telephone company hat again
lost Its ault to uphold the Berliner patent.
Issued In 1891, under which It expected to
control the telephone business for another
long period of time. Judge Brown of the
United States circuit court in Boston first
decided against the Bell company and the
circuit court of appeals baa now affirmed
Judge Brown's decision. That practically
ends the Bell monopoly, If It bad one.
A Female Casablanca.
New York Sjn.
Those of us who have had occasion to
observe the strength of purpose of the
"setting" hen will be interested in the tale
of heroism that comes from the Jersey
Mountain View. There waa a fire In Jo
seph Harrison's feed mill. Between the
stone elevator building and a shed Josiph
Harrison's Jersey setter was setting peace
fully. Fire and fire engines, smoke and
crash abounded. The setter set undis
turbed. Scorched, drenched, unmoved, sho
kept tha neat. Yet the hen la regarded as
a ridiculous fowl, and Insulting phrases
like "chicken-llvered," chicken-hearted"
are too common. A "setting" hen is the
firmest type of firmness. Not Iron or
granite, but the "aettln" hen is unyielding
and unconquerable.
BECILAR SHOTS AT THE PVLPIT.
Brooklyn Eagle: Discussion whether
Methodism has outgrown the need of emo
tionalism may henceforth be conducted In
thi light of its completed $20,000,000 fund,
with $5,000,000 added as a happy emotional
afterthought to make comfortable and glad
the declining years of its superanuated and
wornout preachers.
Baltimore American: A church In Ho
boken baa offered its Sunday school schol
ars prlzea of Bibles for proficiency In their
catechism, except the minister's son, who
is to get a pair ot boxing gloves. It is
said to record that the other proficient
pupils are disturbed over this distinction
many ot them secretly cherishing a desire
to Join the exception as a member of the
church militant
Chicago Inter Ocean: A Bible manuscript.
said to date from the Moslem year 116, or
735 Christian era, has lately been dlacov
ered in Syria and la now depostlted In
Cairo. It is aatd to comprise the Penta
teuch, written in Samaritan characters,
and Is declared to be far older than the
Hebrew Biblical manuscripts now In ex
istence. The oldest Bible manuscript In the
British museum is dated 1339 A. D. and this
has heretofore been supposed to be the old
est In existence. But the interesting thing
about the latest discovery Is tbst it con
tains Immediately after the Decalogue a
passage of about fifteen lines that doea
not exist In the authorized version. It is
claimed that this passage Is likely to clear
up aeveral long-disputed points. There can
be little doubt that Biblical students in
all parts of the world will very soon have
a good deal to aay pro and con about tbla
new manuscript.
Indianapolia Joirnal: They have been
having some little trouble in a church
down in Easton. Pa. It originated in what
one account bluntly calls a "communion
cup row." One element In the congregation
advocated individual rui. while the other,
and old-fashioned divis.'on held out tor
the single cup. averring .'hat It the com
tnunlcant were truly godly he would never
be harmed by any evil geims that might
find their way to the rim of the common
glass. The fight waged bitterly, and which
side woa the report that reaches the Jour
lsf.et.in- aHsiiram that the allies have ! "' does not Indicate. The confljet. ho
ever resulted in two parties, mho have
no design upou Venezuela u territory
and we ls-lieve there Is no good reason
for apprehension on this avore. lireat
Britain would certainly not Invite a
quarrel with the United States by tak
ing territory aud It would U the rash
tst madness on the part of Germany
carried tbelr animosities into local politics,
and the communion cup row la likely to
have a far reaching effect on certain aa
pirlng candidates for office. Tha humors
of (be religion of civilisation are many
and no one will enjoy this Easton episode
better than tbs representative of Confu
danism, tha amiable Mr. Wn
PERSOAI, AND OTHERWISE.
Spring ts about two months off. Keep
your woolens on and your bin full.
The real cauae of the coal shortage Is re
vealed. It' is due to the proneness ot
Americans to overheat their rooms.
Charlea Mitchell, the ex-puglllst, man
aged to accumulate $200,000 from his
sprinting and his oratory. Charley is the
rarest bird in his class.
Another rich find la reported In the Klon
dike country. The report .comes by way of
Seattle, where boatamen and outfitters are
hungering for another crop of fools.
American soap la going Into the Island of
Guam at a great rate. The festive natives
utilize the cakes at 6 o'clock teaa and
trim their clauta with the wrappers.
Chinese officials are said to have urged
the empress to resign. Unless the em
press has changed her temper alnce the
foreign Invasion, those nervy officials have
felt the ax ere tbla.
St. Louis resents the Insinuation ' that
its pace Is on par with that ot Its "name
sake, "the ocean greyhound." Rightly so.
St. Louts is a warm' proposition. In an
other year speed friction will be hot enough
to burn things.
A Massachusetts agricultural club ex
presses the solemn conviction that "onions
are strong enough to raise a mortgage."
The Massachusetts onion Is a great in
stitution. It was the humble onion that
lifted the redcoats off Bunker Hill, but
perverse history failed to pay tribute to
lta patriotism.
BLASTS FROM HAM'S HOW.
A small door may lead to a large room.
God doea not measure our sanctity by our
alghs.
A godly heart Is better than a golden
tongue.
The pearl of patience grows in the shell
of pain.
Failures are often God's fitting tor future
successes.
Straight character cannot come out ot
crooked living.
A man begins to go down the moment he
ceases to look up.
Only a email man will blame his clr
cumatancea for his alse.
To cultivate the aoul la not to sacrifice
the sense, but to subdue the senses.
The more fashionable the devil appeara
the more fatal will be hie approach.
The skies are never a bright as When
they have been washed by a ahower.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
Mr. Newlywed Tour salads ain't tike my
mother used to make.
Mrs. Newlywed Well, your salary ain't
like my father uaed to make. Judge.
Its fat the piano) And what air do you
prefer?
She Well, If you give me my choice, I'll
take a millionaire. Baltimore News.
"No." eald Miss Cayenne, "I shouldn't
say that he Is Illiterate."
What should you eay?"
"That his vocabulary Is too large. He
has acquired more words than he has had
time to learn to apell or pronounce."
Washington Star.
"What Is your father's objection to me,
Millie?" asked the young man.
"He says you have no application, Ger
ald." "No application!" he echoed, bitterly. "I
wonder if he knows I've been coming to see
you twice a week for nearly six years!"
Chicago Tribune.
Teas You don't seem very enthuslaatlo
about my engagement ring. It's hand
somer than the one you had last summer,
anyway.
Jese It's Just ss handsome, I admit. In
fact, It'a the same ring. Philadelphia
Press.
"This town," said the western boomer,
"wan practically built In a day. We do
things In a hurry out here."
"No doubt," replied the man from the
east, "but I am more Interested In receiv
ing some assurance that It will not disap
pear In a day." Chicago Post.
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Weep with you for the little one whose
love
I have known nothing of.
The little t'tni that slowly, slowly loosed
Their pressure round your neck; the hands
you used
To kiss such arms auch hands I never
knew.
May I not weep with youT
Fain would I be of eervlce eay something.
Between the tears, that would be comforting-Put,
ah! so sadder than yourselves am I,
Who have no little child to die.
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