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14 TITE OMAHA DAILY T1KK: SUNDAY, JUNE 7, mo3. Tie Omaha Sunday Bet E. ROSEWATCR. EDITOR. rUCLIgHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF BUBBCRIPTlOM. pally Re (without Sunday). On Yeor..$4.00 Daily Bee and Bun.1ny. On Tear ' illustrated M (me Tnr I.OO Sunday Bea, On Year I Saturday Bee. One Year 1 6" I Twentieth Century Kirmff. One Tear.. 1.00, DELIVERED BY CARRIER, pally Pea (without Sunday), pr copy.... te pally Bee (without Sunday), per wr'k ..12c Dally Bra (Including Sunday). lr week.lie Sunday Boa, per copy at: Evening Be (without 8uniluy), per week, so . Week Wc I Complaint of Irregu'srltl.-s In delivery hJuld ba addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES Omaha Tha Baa Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council Blutta-10 Prarl Street. ChlcagolSto Unity Building. New York 232S Park Row Dul'dlnf. Washington vn Fourteenth Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to nuw and edi torial matter ahould l.e nl.rc.';ed: Omaha baa, F.dltorlal Department. RE.M1TT ANCE3. Remit by 6ra.lt, i.., rw.s or postal order, Buyable to The lien l-ublishlng Company, nly I -rent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounta. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. TUB BEE PUBLItiHlNCI COM HAN Y. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, ftat of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. : Oeorge U. Tischurk, secretary of Th Bea Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full unit complete copies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tha montn of May, waa aa ioiiowi 1. 30,01 K UO.tlTB 341.21 N ao.noo 8O.T30 8B.STO 80.1170 30,M1 80.T40 2T.TT5 90A0 30,370 30,020 17. 2S.4B0 Xl.OfO 18... 18... ... 21... St... 30,TMt :tO,800 ao.&ro 3o,no B SU.N30 24... 26... aW. ... 28... ...a,2:o ..3o,s:io ..no, two ,.3O,T50 ..30,0X0 ..SO.IKItt U U u 29. 14 0,T8O is 3o,ono 80 81. (WO Jl sT.row 1( SO.MUO Total nr3.l0 Leas unsold and returned copies 10,341 Ket total sales Net average sales U43.3r,il SJ0.4JtT GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my preaanre and sworn to before me thla Slat day of May, A. D. 1W3. M. B. H UNGATE, (Seal.) Notary Public. The Ohio political volcano seems to bave called Its eruption completely off. Evidently the proper place to respond to this "back to nature" cry is In the ball room. It seems that Mount Feleo Is again ending out notices to its friends to re mind them that It ts still in active busi ness. With the National Educational asso ciation meeting ia Boston this year, "the schoolma'ams from Mass." should be in high feather. One of the men Inextricably Involved la the postofflce scandal Is said to be charged up as a Nebraska appointee. If so, Nebraska repudiates hlui. The only way for Co:umbla to corner th canal market successfully is to form a trust with Nicaragua and merge the control of the two isthmian routes. The open door is all right for trade purposes in the east, but the open door that lets the rain pour down on us in unwelcome quantities la In danger of losing Its popularity. Chicago's strikes have now almost all been ended by arbitration. Why not finish up the remaining difficulties In Omaha by getting employers and em ployes together by mediation agree ments? Why should Colorado make so much do over the location of each new hot. pita I for consumptives In the dry air district? Colorado is for the most putt one huge hospital for consumptives any way. Now won't some other literary celeb rity kindly follow Emerson's example. nd celebrate a centennial tnulversnry so as to enable the book publishers to work off some more dead stock that has been accumulating on their shelves? The esteemed t Chicago Tribune de flares that The Bee's suggestion of a plpeless pipe line following up the wire less telegraphy between Milwaukee and Chicago la a pipe dream. We presume we shall have to put that In our pipe nd smoke It President llooeerolt buckles down .to work from the very moment of his re turn to Washington Just as if recreation wera merely a prelude to labor. It Is not every man who can do this. But the president has demonstrated times Without number that be is an extraor dinary man. Another duel has Just been fought by two members of tho Freuch Chamber Of Deputies to rellevt feelings ruffled during a wordy squabble in th house. No danger, however, of the example becoming contagious with American lawmakers, as their feelings are by no means so sensitive. Tba Union Taclflc eurnlnga for the last ulna months show material and gratifying gains in spite of the ma chinists' strike. But we doubt very much whether Mr. Ilarrtmin would want to repeat the experience with the strike next year Just because the Uuiou Pacific earnings have been satisfactory. According to Harper's Weekly, which the mouthpiece of iho big trust atd merger magnate. Is exhibiting unmis takable signs of a etremioue desire to get over ou the Ue'nocratle side of the political fence, the nominee of the democratic party will be taken from tho short list that tnrlnrtes only Cleveland, Ol'ney, Cionur.u. Jid;:e Tarker and Judge Gray. If this is t'i ltxt tint has the stamp of otnolat oi-t.-ovh! of tho Wall street rtnuocier vL lmvo set out to beat Roov lt. f con- it Is sl uply a waste of b.vtitU for Ut.uocints t j dis cuss any other possibilities. Here Is ths layout-Jet them Uks their choice. Till' solvtmh or labo fnohhtn. A few days ago the owners of the ste! and i in flute mills that ire In operation In T'lttsburg and Its imme diate thlntty Iti the region covered by (he greet iron industries concluded a compact with the IdO.OtK) operatives era plojvtl !n llit lr Mill and factories estsb llsliliU ft eir.le ot wages for the em ployes in tiie viirintis branches of the Iron luil'isliy under specific regulations rnd limitation that will be In effect for the coining In civ months. This mutual working ogreenient, rep resenting an output ot raw find finished factory products of stupendous volume nnl vi I tic, running perhaps iuto the lumrtivrls of millions, affords a striking and rmpurulJfWd example of the trend it lmxldii l:idiis!?Jallm and the rela tion or Ihlor and enpltal when organize-1 lu t'. i'lr ferehfest perfection for mu tm.l bencllt. It shuttle bt? borne In mind Ihnt the Mfrotintions between the 100,. 000 cpcintives employed in the great Iron Imhsirr end the owners of the ast estnlilSshnients that give them em ployment were cnirled on by perhnps not Uiore tl.nn f'ftten or twenty per sons and concluded in less than three dayn to the siitlnfr.ctlon of all concerned. It goes without saying that no com pact for a year's working orrangement could have been negotiated with the Individual employes with any degree of assurance of harmonious termination in a month end possibly not in two or throe months. It Is also manifest that no compact guaranteeing Industrial peace for any length of time, involving interests of such magnitude, could have been even contemplated were it not for the fact that the great body of work men employed In the iron mills, foun dries and factories were compactly or ganised in one general union that can vouch for tho delivery of the commodity known as labor at a fixed price, for a fixed period. These periodic working arrangements with organized labor foreshadow the true solution of all labor problems by mutual recognition of tho rights of the employer and the rights of the employe, and the settlement of all differences and grievances by boards of conciliation and arbitration, whose findings will lie respected uud enforced by mutual agreement. MVLTIPLlCirr OF SMALL BANKS. RInce the refunding net of 1900 was passed, permitting the organization of banks with $25,000 capital in places of not more than 3,000 inhobltants, there has been a net increase of 1,337 In the number of active institutions and an increase of $132,223,000 in the aggre gate capital. While the organisation of these small banks has undoubtedly been of very material advantage to the com munities in which they are located, some think that ultimately thoy may prove a weak spot In the financial structure. In prosperous times, re marks a leading financial Journal, such as we have been having for five yeart past, all goes well with the widely ex tended and loosely connected banking system, for such losses as are incurred are easily borne, "but let a time come when a severe strain is put upon credit and these mushroom banks will be In great danger of breaking down and pulling hard upon the strands that con nect them with larger banks and through the latter with the centers of financial strength. The strain may cause breaks all through the widely extended lines and shatter credit where but for this It could be held up by the Iiowerful association of banks with large resources of capital and of finan cial ability. Whenever a crisis comes, and we cannot hope that the day of crises is wholly past, it will be found that the comparative Isolation of the large bauks and the existence of a mul titude of small independent banking con- terns will prove a lamentable source of weakness." It Is not to be doubted that thus far 11 suits have justified the legislation au thorising the organization of banks with small capital. A great many com munities have derived substantial beuefit from them. There was a large demand for such banks, as the numlwr that has been organized shows. But the danger pointed out In the above extract undoubtedly exists and that fact should conduce to conservatism on ths part of tho small banks referred to and also to n careful surveillance by the large banks with which they ore con netted. At present the national bank itur system Is In good condition through out, but n severe strain might disclose weakness not suspected and It is quite possible that this would be found aanuiif the small banks, though there ia no reason to suppose that they ore goneiT.lly less carefully ond conserva tively managed than the larger ones. WIS ffTK or l.fTtRKST. From th fact that New York City, which borrowed money a few years ago at 3 and even 2 per cent luterest, fluds Itself compelled to float Its bonds now at 4 per cut, while a corresponding fall lu the price of British cousols Is also visible, some financial authorities assert that a general rise in the Interest rate commanded for the use of money Is In progress which may be expected to manifest itself in stiffened interest charges everywhere. When John Stuart Mill, the famous British political econo mist. Indulged his fanciful theorizing about Industrial conditions of an imaginary community In a stationary state, he figured that the rate of Interest ou loanable capital would have reached tho lowest possible limit that would In duco people to sav th wealth they produced for future enjoyment, rather than to devote It to the satisfaction of lmmcdlut wauts. With ths evolution of tnduHtrtal society, we were supposed to approach constantly this stationary tttate, so that It was laid down as an citablls'.icd principle that t'ae rats of In tsrest steadily tended downward with increased security of property, ths development of habits of thrift snd the accumulation of capital. The old school of economists therefore would have scouted the idea of a general and permanent rise In interest rates. Later theorists have been Inclined to take n different View, namely that the use of capital Is valued according to the re turn that can be bad from Its employ ment In profitable enterprises and would concede the possibility of a gen eral rise In the rate of Interest If the productive capacity of capital were first Increased. If New York City has to pay more now than It did two or three years ago to float bonds backed by the sams eredlt and based on better security, It must be simply because in vestors find themselves able to get big ger profits In other fields. Whether the Interest rate will go still higher and whether It will be maintained nt the new level any length of time will of course depend on the stability of present prosperous conditions and the relative Intensity of the demand for loans as measured up with the supply of volatile capital. ptRVicnTtsa thk tictb of history. The departure of Governor Ezra P. Savage for bis new home In the Puget Sound country prompts the Lincoln Journal to emit the following charac teristic upology for the blubbering par don dispenser: Now that ha Is out of the state snd out of politics, the newspapers which have so bitterly denounced Mm might properly stop and consider whether their bilious strictures were entirely Justified by the facts In the rase. Ezra Savage was In clined to be merciful, and God knows there ts too little of that attribute In the makeup of men generally. It hurt him to seo others suffer, and he would relieve their misery If In his power. There was this In his favor, which like charity covers a multitude of defects, If he said he would do a thing, he did It. He stood for an honest and economical administration, and Ms efforts In that direction were not In vain. All In. all. he did well and deaerved much mors credit than he has been given. Under ordlnury circumstances a man who has been dishonorably drummed out of the political army may be al lowed to pass Into oblivion covered by the mantle of charity, but In the case of Ezra P. Savage the deliberate per version of the truth of history cannot be permitted to remain uncontradicted and unrebuked. No man or newspaper warred upon Ezra P. Savage because of disappointed ambition or personal grievances, but because bis conduct was calculated to leave an indelible blot on the escutcheon of the state. It is an indictment of the moral sense of the people of Nebraska to hold Ezra P. Savage up as a model of Integrity and a victim of malignant persecution. Everybody In Nebraska knows that Ezra P. Savage entered the executive office a poor man. How are we to ex plain the sudden acquisition of wealth that has made him the owner of a lucra tive business in Tacoma? Did he inr herlt from a rich uncle who died in Australia or in South Africa? Did he draw the capital prize In the Havana lottery? An honest man Indeed! Does not everybody In Nebraska remember bis mountebank performance as member of the State Board of Assessment, when he proclaimed from the housetops that the railroads were worth over $300, 000,000 and should be assessed Jn pro portion to their market value? How did be come to change his mind about the railroad assessment, and who changed it for him? How much rail road fare has he paid chasing back and forth across the continent since his exit from the executive office? Everybody remembers the Ssvage threats of disclosure of the Bartley se crets. How did be act when the legis lature Invited him to come home to testify? Is it not monstrous for any paper or editor In Nebraska to portray this man as being more sinned against than sinning as being a victim of a merciful heort that went out In sym pathy to the criminal in bis cell as well as to the sick man in ths hospital? What is the growing generation to think about our ataudard of public morals If Esra P. Savage Is to go down in history as sn upright, courageous and dutiful executive? AS TO BVSSUie FttlKSiDSMP. When the Russian government and press shall have been Informed of the proceedings of th mass meeting at the national capital of the United States, denouncing the Klshlneff massacre and the general treatment of the Jews In Russia, they will perhaps conclude that American feeling has been most deeply stirred and that no considerations of international friendship will be allowed to interfere with its strong and earnest expression. Whether or not this culmi nating manifestation of American pro test and indignation will have the hoped for effect It is impossible to say, but it at least cannot fall to Impress upon Russia the fact that our people are bound by no ties or obligations which can deter them from condemning as It deserves such brutal Inhumanity and injustice as the Jews srs subjected to in the Russian empire. The press of Russia has had much to say about the long-standing friend ship between that country and this and the sympathy with the United States shown by Russia in certain emergen cies. The American people are uot un mindful of this, but it should not con strain them to silence when a great out rage has been committed against fellow beings and the Injustice which is largely responsible for that and other outrages ia beiDg perpetuated. Moreover, it must not be assumed that Russia's ex hibitions ot friendship and sympathy were wholly altruistic, as the' news papers of that country seem to think. Particular stress Is laid upon Russia's friendly attitude toward us during ths civil war and of her sending warships to American waters at that period, which ur gorsrumeat was Informed came with no unfriendly purpose. Un questionably it was a benefit to us, but may It r.ot have been Inspired by Rus sian hostility to Great Britain and de signed as much In the Interest of Rus sia As of the United States? However, the talk of friendship nnd sympathy seems altogether Irrelevant. Every clnlm that Russia con make In this respect may be unqualifiedly con ceded, without lessening or Impairing the duty of the American people to speak earnestly and strongly In repre hension of whtkt has taken place In the empire of the czar. We should dls-l credit our claim to being a Christian nation, seeking to promote civilisation and ths welfare of humanity, if we kept silent In the presence of such wrongs. Our government has done nothing and will do nothing to give offense to the Russian government. The matter la not one which, at least in its present stage, calls for notice on the part of our gov ernment. But the voice of the people is under no restraint of international com ity and while Americans generally de sire to retain the friendship and good will of Russia they will not sacrifice therefor the duty and the right to pro test against wrong and Injustice and plead for an oppressed and outraged people. BKTTtA UtiDKRSTAKDIXQ XttDCD. Mr. James R. Garfield, chief of the bureau of corporations of the Depart ment of Commerce, In an address a few days ago urged that the need of the day Is an Interchange of Information between the capitalist and the laborer, thai each might better understand the Other. He said it Is Impossible to think of industry without thluklng of labor and capital, aud we are forced to say tluit whHt is good for one Is good for the other, so closely are they connected. "We rannot have conditions that are good for capital and harmful to labor. Every ont has the right to enjoy life, but he must not allow that right to conflict with the right of another to enjoy life. We have a right to study, to wor ship as we please, but we must grant otners tho same right So in Industry. We have the right to labor, but we must lecogiilite the right of all others. So with tho corporations; they have the right to Invest but they have the obli gation to do so only so far as not to injure those engaged thereby." Mr. Garfield, who was addressing workiiwnicn, said that labor unions must not use tyrannical power, but rather t-levntr. men and elevate the sttiudnrd o living. To do this they must net their qualifications high, mak ing these Integrity, honesty, manhood. Corporations are not to deal with their men lu ignorance of their condition, or their stnndard ol living, of what a man can do, of what good work really Is. They can get this Information only by getting together, Mr. Garfield de clared that the roan who says there la nothing to arbitrate Is not a good clti sen; hejs jiot a good manager. "No human ntind can comprehend all ond no human being is always right" In re gard to tho bureau of which he Is chief, Mr. Garfield expressed the opinion that It will go long ways toward bringing out facts which will help labot and capital to understand conditions better. A most valuable and important service will be done If It shall accomplish this, for It Is unquestionable that a long stride would N. taken toward the at tainment of Industrial peace If a way were found to enable capital and labor to each understand better the condition of the otlior. The difficulty now Is to bring them together In a true spirit of conciliation and with an earnest ord honest desire to be fair and Just one to the otlwr. But we think there is a strong tendency In this direction and it should have all possible encouragement It should relieve a great many people to know that under the analytical dis section of a learned court, It has been judicially decreed that belief In spirit ualism Is not enough evidence of In sanity to invalidate the bequests made In a will. A great many great men have believed in spiritualism and a great many others have believed In Isms which have been equally ' reviled as crazy. Of the people who believe they can communicate from this earth with the spirits of departed friends, few have been sufficiently imbued with that belief to wait until after their own death to send back word as to what disposition should be made of their property. The fact that a person pre fers to make a will rather than rely on the uncertainty of post-mortem telepathy is pretty nood proof of sub stantial sanity. Chancellor Andrews has In reply to Interrogatories corrected the published statement that as to his mistaken Idea of the limits of gold production on which was based bis adhesion to the free sliver propugsnda In iSW, but the corrections are chiefly with reference to the verbiage of the report rather than with its Import. As to his own changa of views on tho money question, the chancellor maintains lu this answer a studied silence which can not but strengthen the inference that having admitted being deluded by false state ments of the possible gold supply, he would no longer uphold the fabric of financial fallacy that was built up upon it. The silver Issue is so dead. Chan cellor Andrews evidently does not feel warranted In wostlng any more words about It The sage coucluslou Is expressed by one of the eastern j.apers discussing the Northern Securities case in tho light of Its origin and history that "very few counsel In the United States or able to glvo a thoroughly trustworthy opinion on questlous of constitutional law." It might be added also that very few courts In the United States are able to hand down thoroughly trustworthy de cisions on sjuesttons of constitutional law with any degree of confidence that they will not be later reversed or dis torted by constructive fictions, so as to lose all semblance to their original Identity, The lawyer who draws Invidious dis tinctions between the character of men serving on Juries In Omaha as con trasted with Lincoln does well to hide his light under a bushel. If he only came out In the open, the Jury wouldn't do it thing to him the next time be hap pened to bo called on to try a case in court here, Why Rsjrope Lass. Saturday Evening Post. Ons reason that Burops is behind America ts that only a few of ths leading men over there have American wives. tvrtelraw Sari Atlanta Constitution. "Shawl It seems to make Some ef the mugwumps Moody and give them a Payne because members of the president's cabinet are doing their best to Root for him while he strenuously makes Hay. Nevertheless, these hypercritical prudes Wll-son see that this is what Knox." Good Thlnaja Dara, New York Herald. The weird tales of bandits snd eutlsws that are printed In cheap form for sale to small boys are moral poison, and should be inexorably banned. It Is Impossible to over estimate the evil effect ot these Actions In perverting and degrading tha child's Ideals of Ufa and conduct He Eipects tn On flack. Chicago Record-Herald. Ambassador McCormlck, who has just ar rived In this country, says the czar Is a great man. This will be disappointing to people who expected the ambassador to come over here and say a lot of mean things about the czar. It may be mentioned incidentally that Mr. McCormlck expects to go back. Cne West and fiet a Pill, Philadelphia Record. Canada Is going to try to precipitate rain by bombarding the sky In spite of ths very thorough tests made a few years ago under the authority of the United States govern ment. The raln-maklng experiments were prosecuted at considerable expense and for some time, and the conclusion reached was that they failed absolutely. Striking an Avernare. Indianapolis Journal. If you wait long enough, there Is an even-Ing-up, a nice balancing of affairs in this world. Take the weather, for Instance. Two or three years back and continuing for a year or two there was a decided de ficiency In the rainfall, as measured by the normal standard. New well, at least no deficiency Is dlscern!b to the naked eye. An Antharlty "abject. Washington Post. Senator Depew does not agree with Dr. Hlllls that a mm with an Income of too. 000 a year is necessarily going to the devil. As a director In sixtv-nlne syndicates, not counting the United 8tates senate, Dr. De pew ought to be, authority on the probable destination of a man behind an income. Guam Wltbla Whispering: Distance. New York Tribune. Our picturesque possession of Guam Is no longer a lone and Isolated speck upon the surface of the Pacific, but la in touch with all the world at an Instant's notice through the medium of electric wires. Soon, there is every reason to expect all our Pacific possessions will be directly linked with the United States in that way,, and the Philippines will be, for purposes of com munication, closer td the seat of overn pient than New York was: a century ago. Lesson of the Flood. Chicago Tribune. What Is the lesson? Clearly this, that those who dwell by these rivers and do business In their vicinity should do all in their power to make their position as se cure as possible against this always me nacing danger. It is a danger which "comes like a thief In the night." Last spring, for Instance, Des Moines was flooded and thousands of dollsra' worth of damage done. Ita people argued that they would be exempt this spring, and suddenly their situation Is even worse. It Is the same for getfulness of danger that characterized the dwellers at the base of Mount Pelee. the same false sense of security that cost the people ot Galveston such a terrible lesson. Ths latter, however, have heeded the les son and have bullded stronger than ever before and erected better barriers against the fury of the sea. So It should be with the dwellers on the banks of rivers which It Is known may overflow any spring what spring no one can foresee. It Is folly al ways to expert a season of drouth to follow a season of rain. It Is wiser always to be ready for what may happen; to build the strongest bridges and the stoutest dikes, snd to mploy the most skillful engineers to devise plan, of protection again., the., floods or at least to reduce their destruc tlvene'ss to the minimum. This may cost a large son, cf money, but It will not cost so much In the end as th. untamed floods. THB HOnSK STILL LIVES. Motor, a.. Ma.-DrlT.n Machine. Fall to nlslodsra Him. Minneapolis Times. Ifls not so long ago that tha horse was said to ba losing prestige as a tamed or a wild and untamed spirit of the road. Since the bicycle had been found to equal him In being a good family ateed. While the auto mobile was able to kick, balk or run away lust aa viciously or dlsaetrously a good many people prophesied that the day of the horse's value, except for utility, was over. Man has a liking for combat and danger, and the conquest of a mettled horse was once an unfailing prescription for liver complaint. That was before the days of machine-made horse., however, and when horse thieves stole horses Instead of bl eyclea. Horse stealing went out of fashion a good many years ago. and aeems likely never to resume It. old vogue, although a man in South Dakota wa. reported not long ago to have ridden away with 105 horses at one .wipe. It mu.t ba a comfort to auto mobile owner, that a whole.ale steal of these to the extent of 106 la not likely. In thla respect the machine I. ahead of the horse. , Yet the horse Is to be with us as a friend and a Joy. after all the doubt about him. Poetry was not symbolised aa a winged steed for nothing. Those old anelenta were all right when they put the Centaur Into mythology and the Gemini Into the Zodiac. Man and the home were meant to be com rade, true and no temporary unfaithful ness on the part of man ran long oust the horse from hU e.tabllahed rlghta of prlmo gentture In the open road and the eurvc ot the race track. Korsea were here before man and his man-made machines. Every thing that a machine ean do a horse can do and make murh less fuss sbout. As for the things a machine ran t do that a horse ean are they not bound up with the history of the world's circuit of the globe? That fashion again Inslste on keeping the horse up to the old mark, as the final ar biter of the dlgnMed and correct In the usage of locomotion, la a return to nature that pleases everybody. The horse Is com panionable. Even In his ugllost temper, he 1. on'.y a tract on the ethic, of horse education. You can shape and train horse nature so that it Is reliable for something definite. The horse Intelligence will step In to piece out tho falling powers of the man. Can an ther motor machine do thatt SECtLAR SHOTS AT THE riLPlT. Baltimore American: While religious assemblies are gravely discussing the ad mission of Infants Into heaven, no one else has a particle of doubt as to ths fate ot Innocent children who die. Ruffalo Express: A minister In Rrooklyn says that tfio.oco a year sends a man to tho devil. That, It Is true. Is the speclnl train Service, but In Justice to his satanlc maj esty, ths minister should remember that he IS by no mean. Illiberal with his cheap excursion rates. Rrooklyn Englo: The Presbyterians in general assembly have decided not to be long to the middle ages any more, and have agreed that Infants are not to be damned. Does anyone suspect that they ever were even thoso who walk' the floor with them nights? Chlcsgo Chronicle) If sn utter stranger to the president were to encounter him on neutral ground and instantly lesln to talk about "the strenuous life" and similnr presidential apothegms tho stranger would be set down as an Impertinent person. Yet that Is exactly what a Cheyenne (Wyo.) preacher did last Sunday when he preached at Mr. Roosevelt respecting "Strenuous nesa." There Is a singular deficiency of tact and sense of propriety In some preachers. New York Times: The Rev. Donald Sage Mackay said a wise thing In his sermon on Sunday last which merits such emphasis aa It may gain from republication. What especially commends Itself to approval ts ths following: "Tho greatest menace to tho life of this city lies not in the hordes of foreign Ignorance that are thronging our doors, but in the torpid Indifference, ths sluggish selfishness of those who, born and bred In the atmosphere of American civil ond religious liberty, are forgetful of their responsibilities to the larger llfo of the city." This Is not a new discovery Probably a great many people have ex pressed the same thought In generally slr.l liar language; but It crystallises a living truth which cannot be too often ?r too clearly proclaimed by those who feel re sponsibility for the education of the people, Portland Oregonl.m: And so the pundits of the Presbyterian theology have decided, after n long struggle and many warnings of a disapproving conscience, that those who die In Infancy are not lost through a blunder or oversight In the "plan of salva tion." It would he a Joke, were the subject not so ghastly, to fln an Intelligent botiy of men gravely proclaiming this as a dis covery to sn astounded world, or as a con cession wrung by much entreaty from tho great All Father. Against all such pre sumption of absolute knowledge of the purpose of God; against tho abhorrent Idea of a revengeful Ood, that could by any possibility, any stretch of the most de praved Imagination, commit to endless punishment a sinless babe; against the la bored "plan of salvation" itself, how brightly shines the sltnplo faith of Whit tier ss expressed hi the linos: Not mine to look where cherubim And seraphs may not see; But nothing can be good In him That evil Is In tne. PERSOXAI, AXD OTHERWISE. Topeka has always been partial to water, but too much of a good thing spoils the ap petite. The floods, It Is feared, will bring water into greater contempt tn Kansas than ever before. Two thousand additional lawyers have been turned loose In New York. Btlll some optimistic people cherish hopes of reform In that city. The famous Ferris wheel sold for $180 at auction last week. Chioagoans are so well supplied with wheels that the Ferris long since cea.ed to be a novelty. A fellow named Hamm and' another named Bacon are rivals for ths hand of a Chicago maiden named Ftye. Evidently they are running for a roast. Ths Rockefellers have concluded to pay the taxes assessed against their property at Tarrytown. N. Y. A noble example which will stimulate the poor to hustle and do likewise. It la downright mean of those Filipino girls to chase their soldier husbands across the Pacific ocean. A patriotic discourse on the dangers that beset emergency wives in strange lands Is duo from some troubled warrior. A New York preacher venture, tho opln Ion that men with Income, of 110,000 or more a year strike an uncommonly hot gait to perdition. Nothing very strange about that. Men have been known to hit the tropical pike on much less provocation, At the semi-centennial celebration of a New York church recently tho discovery was made that the pastor had decided to acoept only $400 of his $800 salary, because he had been provided with a rectory. The Incident happened In 18C and is too ancient to be honored as a precedent. Referring to reports of the gnrgeousness of his court uniform Ambassador McCor mlck says "it's no such thing." He wears the ordinary evening dress suit with a few gold bands and a killing edging ot lace on the coat sleeves, so as not to be mis taken for a flunkey at court functions. ' Mankind has long sought some gentle loving mean, to expedite the movements of their wives and sweethesrts when dross Ing for an evening out. Let them aock no more. The moans Is at hand. A Toledo man fired flvj pistol shots at the door of his wife's chamber, "Just to hurry her." and auoceeded. The wife hurried to court for a divorce. An entomologist of uncertain repute cnl culates that bugs cost this country $&0,0C0,- 000 a year. The grasshopper gets away with $90,000,000 worth of vegetation If he la feeling well, tho Hessian fly $50,000,0)0, the chinch bug $10,000,000 snd the potato bug $8,000,000. These figures are mere ciphers compared with the ravages of bugs un consciously ooddled by humanity. The gold bug, for Instance. Ask the colonel. WHERE TIIE SCHEME FAILS. Magnate Hill's Plan to Conrert the Chinaman from Rice to Wheat. Pittsburg Dispatch. Mr. J. J- Hill', plan for Increasing our wheat markets by selling no more than the worth of a Cint a day to each Inhabitant of China looks splendid at first sight. Hut a little consideration show, that It depends for success on the Chinese family of Ave people having $18 25 per annum which it does not need for other purposes snd which It csn afford to spend for tha luxury of wheaten bread. v For the fact must be borne In mind that to the 0)0.000,000 or 700.000;000 of the oriental populations wheat Is not a necessity. Tho place which wheat fills In the dietary of this country Is Ailed there by rice, in those countries a pound of rice costs about one-fourth as mueh ss a pound of flour. It is more digestible for those hot climates, and though there I. a dispute a. to It. place In tho nutritive tables, there Is no denying that the Chinese and Hindoos do a great deal of work on It. The case I. pnt clearly enough by the fact that the people of India sell all their wheat, except when It Is at the moat depressed prices, and live on rice and millet. Mr. Hill's scheme will work when com merce with Asia raises the wage, and standard ot living of th Asiatic masses to tho level of England and America. Until that apparently remote benefaction of trade we must look for. our trade with Asia mainly to thost textile and metal manu factures which Asiatlo countries are forced to bujr. RELIGIOIS. Th three new bishops of Manila. Net" Segovia and Nucva Caceres will be Ameri cans, as there are no natives ta taks the place of the Spanish hlshops. Rlshop Totter was CT-yssrs-old on Sun day, and the pupils of the Choir School of the Cathedral of St. John the Dlvln presented to him a richly bound copy of th Epistles of St. John. President Charles W. Elliot of Hsrvsrd. anys tho old hymns of loo and J00 years ago are barbaric, showing a soldierly con ception of Ood, while th hymns of todny show no savagery at all. Madagascar and th Islands of Africa have sn area of square miles, with a population of 4.30S.MI, with $84 forelgi mlsslonarles. In 18S1 -ther were l.Wrt churches snd 1,200 scholsrs under a Chris tian queen. The Invested trust funds of tho American Bible Society, Independent of a special fuml to supply the Bible In raised letters for tho blind, amount to $r2!,130.7$. Since Its or ganization, the sr.clrty has distributed over 72.ooo.ooo copies of ths Mlblo In many tongues. Southern Baptists have Just held the largest missionary rally In their history, at Savannah. The convention decided to raise during the next two years $700,000 ss sn addition to the present endowment of the thoologlcal seminar)- at Louisville, which la the only seminary of southern whit Baptists. St. Paul's Cathedral, rittsburg, Pa., which when consecrated In 1K5A was condsldered the most splendid Catholic church In th United Stilus, has had to be abandoned and destroyed on account of. th growth of th city. A consecrated church can nevtr be given to secular purpose. The lust mass was celebrated In tho venerable building Monday, May 11, and immediately thereafter the work of demolition began. DOMESTIC: l'l.K AS A'l ItlES. He My darling, when will you 1m mine? bhe never! nut I'll marry you. liius truiod Bits. "You love ny UauKliterT" "Bho'. nil thu woriu to inc. sir." "Then I don't suppose you'll want a set tlement." Detroit true Press. Friend But what started tho quarrel Tearful Brlue-Why. 1 said If w ever did Suarrel he would have to be the Hist to o it, and he said 1 would surely be the one to stm t it. .New York Times. He What would you sny If I were to ask you to become my wife? She Oh, I know well enough; I made my mind up about that long ago. But there'll be lime enough to tell you when you asa. Boston Transcript. Husband That new bonnet of yours Just make, me tired. Wife 1 feared that It would. You never did like cheap things, you know. New York Weekly. "She says there was u time whon ah was an unbeliever." "But now she's a regular attendant at church? "Yes. she believes everything she hears now; especially the gossip about th other believers." Philadelphia Ledger. "Why docs Henry hnto Henrietta's family so? Ho scarcely notices them!" "Well, you ee, he loves Henrietta for herself alone." New York Press. "I've been out pressing T-ild flowers." "Press any?" "No, but I assisted the girl who was with me."--Delrolt Freo Press. A TROIBI.ED EEL1BVER. James Barton Adams In Denver Post V'v got a gospel pilot now that soars 'way out o' sight A Uyln' down the llvln' word an' cllnchln' of It tight: A man that aims right at jer heart In shootln' truth, r.n' who Don'' kesytate to fit you with a mighty pliichln' shoe. He doesn't sugar-coat his words to make 'em good to taste Nor never 'nunclates a phrase that seems to go to waste, But every truth that quits bis lips percecds to make a nest An' takes up Its abode to stay right In a feller' breast In preachln' to us ylsterday he mad th p'lnt that we Mus' love our neighbors a ourselves, an' It occurred to me Tha parson wasn't nowls on to all we'd have to face By llvln up to his advice with fortytuda an' grace. One sinful neighbor that I've got Jest keeps me In a sweat A plnvln' Mcthodlntlc tunes upon a ol' cornet. An', snyln" nothln' of the noise, It keeps mv pious head Plum full o' durned onehrlstlan thoughts, me beln' Baptls' bred. Another neighbor sn" his wife sn growed tip gals has got A organ, an' their musleilca Jest keeps m b'llln" hot. Fur every nljrht when honest folks had or to be In bed They keen that nV harmonic wreck a try'rt to rle tho dead. They sing the sinful songs o' earth, thorn Jerkv spasms that They claim Is ragtime gems o' song; I sw'ar 't'd singe a eat! An' when T made Christian kick my speech was rudely checked By hot advice to go to bed or words to that erfeet There's ohrs 'round on every slds with habits thst nnnor ' My calm an' ou'et Christian ways an wreck mv peaceful Joy, An' ofn when I Vneel tn prayer some stranwe .inearth! sound TJ come to null mv thotisht from Ood sn smash "em on the ground. I'd like to heed the nnrson'a words en love ch brutes as them. Fur I don't wnnt to miss a p'n't to win the dledem. . Put If It's necessnry fur to give stett ent- ters love I've either got to perish with the enre deemed or move. Philanthropy "When Mr. Casey died he left all he had to the orphan asylum." "Indeed! That was nle of him. What did he leave?" "His twelve children." Detroit Free Press. Lots of men with good incomea are in danger of having that epitaph on their head etoneB. How would ii bj if you should die tonight? If Mr. Casey had put a few hundred each year in an Equitable Policy, his children's main, tenance and educa tion would bare been provided for, Equitable Life "Stress H is IM Wortg." II. D. !ey. Manager for Nebraska N. V. Llf Bid"., Omaha.