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14 THE OMAHA DAILY 1JEE: SODAY, JUNE 14, 1903. The Omaha Sunday Bee E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PL'BLIIHBD EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF HfnaCRIPTION. F'ally Pee (without Sunday). On Yor..$4.J0 'ally Be and Sunday, On Tear illustrated Bee, On V i.oo 2 15" 1 00 Sunday Bee, On Year.... fatunlay bee. On Year Twentieth Century Farmer, On Tear DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally p. (without Hiimlnyi, per copy.... e Tiii t, ... -.i . u .... ii,inIi.Vi nr weeS..-I2c bally He (Including Sunday'), per week.lTo a . . .t . .. 1 1 - i Be Evening be (without Sunday), per week. c Evening Be (Including Sunday). P Week ( . . . Iwc Comnlai'n'i' of 'irreiularitlea In allTr' heold b addressed to City Circulation De partment OFFICKS. Omaha Th Re Building. outh Omh-'lty Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M Street. Council Bluff 10 Pearl Strt. Chlrgo 1940 Unity Building. New York-2XM Park Row Building. Washlngton-601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, F.dJtorlal Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee l-.ibUshlng Company. Only -cent ilamim accepted In payment of mall account. Personal checks. Cept On Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEK PUBL.1BH1NO COMfAN T. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stat of NbraliB. Dougla County. s.: George B. Tsschilok, secretary of The n Publishing Company, being duly wr"; ay that the actual number of full end Complete coplM of Th Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during th month or May, iu, wa aa iouowa. 1 30,IHH t H0.6T5 1 841.200 4 3O.B00 I ao.TSO SS.STO I ao,To 1 30,NtO SO.70 10 ST.TT8 U 3O.440 1 3O.AT0 II BO.HJiO 11 80,fSO u ao.osa 17 2S.4S0 18 M.090 19 3.TM 20 SO.SOO 21 BO.RTu 21 30.040 a .'. 80.H30 M aiuw 28 30.M30 24 so, mo 27 80.TB0 28 80.0S0 2g ftO.HOO SO ii iT,noo W 3O.800 - " - Total ,,.OB.0O0 Less unsold and rturnd oorle lo4 Net total sale 04:1,888 Nt average ale ao.43T GEORGE B. TZaeHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to be for roe this Slat day of May, A. D. lftt. M. B. HUNUATL, (Seal.) Notary Public. The South American monopoly on rev olutions hat boen broken. Joseph Chamberlain can now write a thrilling story entitled "My Harrow Escape." v In due time after the commencement period has passed the graduate with grit and sense will wake up. Society note J. rierpont Morgan gra ciously honored King Edward with his presence at the king's last levee. After all, history shows that many a king has lost his head over a woman and then lost the crown over his head. Peopla traveling to Chicago will do well to provide for emergencies by car rying lunch botes along with tlietn. We may not be able to get a "Fourth less July," as suggested by the Chicago Tribune, but we might have a "tireless Fourth." Surely Pension Commissioner Ware could not have known what a hornets' nest he was stirring or he would have set his words to soothing poetry. In the meantime the sick twin of Eu rope, familiarly known as the sultan of Turkey, maintains a condition of robust food health well protected against as sassins. The last of the fighting McCooks has succumbed to the final battle. But when the crisis comes again, if it ever comes, the nation will not want for more fight ing families. A New York court In deciding a con tested wilt case has ruled incidentally that love at 90 is not necessarily Insan ity. It all depends on the object of the old age affection. Mlnnesota Is having a troublesome I contention over the payment of beet sugar bounty claims. Having gone through a similar experience, Nebraska can tender heartfelt sympathy. If there Is a college or university In the country that is not holding out both bands for more bequests and endow ments, it should enter the lists at once for a prize as tu eduvatlonal freak. The presidency of the University of Virginia has no temptation for Mr. Cleveland. Another presidency, how ever, might possibly lure him from the privacy of his New Jersey retirement. If the new Servian king has to defend his title against all the pretenders who may set up a claim to royal parontngo through the profligate Milan, be will have little time for anything else during his reign. The term of compulsory military serv ice in France is to be reduced from throe years to two years. It la only a matter of time when the nations of Europe will hate to come to the American system of voluntary military service, at leust in time of peace. One of the eastern religious weeklies brashly declares that the bequest of over $2,000,000 to rrlnceton seminary gives it quite as larr an endowment as Is good for such an institution, Poor students preparing for the ministry could not be expected to acquire the meekness and humility necesssiy for the Cloth if aurruuuditl by too mm'h pomp and luxury. Just to show It law abiding dtsposi tlon the Northern Securities company will obey the court ninml.itp for the re turn to the foi vn r owner of the roll road securities U wns orgi-uiicnl to hold and to vote, but it wl'l try to get tlio decision revertM-U by the I ultort States supreme cour Jrt Mie -mi-. f-' .m'j Its appeal win ojt, it would sou Ue- velop that It had atrlng on all the re- turned stocks. orxtn wtAS vr jutasALiSM. The leading spirits of the Omaha Business Men's association have very queer ronceptions of the functions of the press. Their ideal of the news pspor Is formed on strictly mercantile lines. They look upon the newspaper as they would upon a country store whose proprietor has goods on the shelf or In the cellar to barter away or to sell for cash and they cannot compre hend why the editorial policy of the paper should not be dictated from the business office. With the merchant and the banker money talks and the man who pays first is served first, and the man who buys the largest quantity of goods gets the lowest price. From that point of view the refusal of a newspaper to al low its business office to dictate the policy, whether in the interest of one patron or all the patrons, is incompre hensible. If they wonld give the mat ter a moment's thought, however, they would be convinced that a newspaper that prostltutea its columns and sells Its opinions on any question is not merely dangerous to the publlo welfare, but should be despicable in the eyes of all honest men. That there are such newspapers pub lished there is no doubt, but like the hybrid in nature they are Impotent and powerless either to create or mould pub lic opinion. An honest journal must Strive above all things to maintain a reputation above the suspicion of nhllty. Its editorial opinions and Its general policy must at fell times remain unaffected and uncontrollable by patron age in any shape or form. It has been the proud record of The Dee that at ho. stage of its career. In times of adversity and business depres sion as well as In times of prosperity, hos It ever allowed itself to be swerved by mercantile Interests or pecuniary benefits. If the reportorlal or editorial columns of The Bee had been a mer rhantable commodity it could have raked In hundreds of thousands of dot In rs In the course of the last thirty years, and Its editor would have been the most popular man with the cor porations and political Jobbers who has ever stepped foot on Nebraska soil. The opinions of a purchasable editor have no weight and his advice no fol lowers. If the editorial policy of The Bee had been shaped by its business office It could have readily made profita ble deals with public works contractors and public utility corporations, and in stead of fighting the battles of the people against public plunderers it would hare fought the battles of the corporations and rings that have gnawed at the vitals of our state and city from year to year. If The Bee had been 8 merchantable commodity, the efforts of the Real Es tate exchange to compel the francblsed corporations to bear their Just shore of the burdens of taxation would have been futile, abd public opinion In the state would not have been awakened to the enormity of railroad tax-shlrklng. It is because The Bee has -stood up fearlessly in season and out of season for what in Its best Judgment would promote the general public welfare, and because it has battled for what it be lieves to be light 8nd opposed what it believes to be wrong at any cost and any sacrifice, that It enjoys the confi dence and respect of the masses, and takes rank with the great newspaper of America that may always be de pended on to discuss all great public questions and Issues without fear or favor from the broad standpoint good government and humanity. Of HESPoXSlBILlTltS or ITtlALTH. In an address a few days ago at the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Incorporation of the town of Greenfield, Mass., Sen ator Lodge made some remarks that It would perhaps be well for men of won 1 tli conornllv tr mushier. It la nn- , ...... . . , . . ... M thof mon j this country that our wealthy men fall to contribute as they should to the benefit of society, that they are ever lastingly bound up to the Idea of ad vancing their own interests and wel fare and are to a very large extent In different to the needs of that great public from which tbey have derived their fortunes. As a matter of fact, however, the wealthy men of the United States are the most generous in the world in their benefactions and it Is a little remarka ble that our people generally Seem to utterly fall to appreciate this fact. Take the statistics, if you please, of the last dozen years of what Our wealthy men In America have given to public Institutions, to say nothing of charity, and compare them with the benefac tions of the wealthy men. of foreign countries, and It will be seen that the Americans are very greatly ahead of any other country. Still there are peo ple here who feel that our wealthy men are not doing all they ought to do In the Interest of the many demands for pecuniar assistance. Senator Lodge urged that one peril of an accumulation of fortunes and a con centration of capital la that of Irre sponsible wealth and the idea he sought to Impress was that whatever contrib uted to the tyranny of wealth or to its undue power in the commonwealth la dangerous to the welfare of the state. The Massachusetts senator said: "Wealth which recognizes its duties and obligations is in its wise and generous res n source of great good to the coirnsrn'ty. But wealth which, if in active, neglects the duty it owes to the co-nmunlty, is deaf to the cry of suffer Itf, seeks not to remedy Iguoranoe and turns Its back upon charity, or which. If actively employed, aims to disre gard the law, to prevent its enforce ment, or by purchase to control leglsla 'on. l Irresponallde. aud. therefore. j lUmrerwa to Itself and to others." Over against this, the senator pointed J out, la the peril of the demagogue, wne would seek to create classes and then set one class against another, ''the deadliest enemies to our liberty and our democracy that the wit of man could Imagine." The responsibilities of wealth are very great and they ere Increasing from year te year. It is an impressive fart, which should not fail to receive the serious attention of those who are ac cumulating wealth. huxuA Btruixc iucctsS. "I do not know what advice to give you, for there is ranch obvious advice," declared President Woodrow Wilson In bis final word to the Princeton gradu ates last week, "yet I would say, Do not seek succeseseek honor." And President Wilson went on to explain that there la no need to tell young peo ple to seek success because the Instinct of success la In all of ua, but should put honor before success. "It is not disgraceful," he added, "to go down having failed if we leave some men who know that we would not forfeit a good name for mere gncces8.H While many words of wisdom are pouring Into the ears of our young men and women just setting out from college walla, it la donbtful If any more appropriate admonition could te offered an admonition tbat applies equally to the strong men and women battling bravely In the world of achieve ment at All stages of their careers. Everything hinges upon the standard by which we measure our success. Success" counted ht dollars and cents may be dazzling, btlt If It Is merce nary simply it cannot be substantial. Success gauged by social or commer clftl position likewise looks at only one side of the problem. If financial inde pendence or social prestige la to be won only by fliahonorabfe methods. such success may be more blighting than failure. Honor before sneceM is but another wfly of saying honorable success. It Is useless to disguise the fact that hN- tory discloses a constantly changing idea of What constitutes honor and whnt action Is honorable. In the days of the medieval robber batons, loot and pillage were no marks of disgrace, but In this twentieth century ra no man an come by anything honestly If he thereby deprive Another of some thing that rightfully belongs to him. Our code of honor today Is higher by far than It ever was before, and the constantly advancing' Ideal of honora ble dealing Is one of the distinguishing signs of progressive Civilization. Some things that pass as honorable now, win not be1 so recognized a few decades hence. It Is the duty of cultured people having the highest educational advantages not only to put honor be fore success, but to contribute In every Way possible toward raising the tests of honorable success. ctiAtattgnLAim Aitb mm cninca. The not very distant future may show that Mr. Chamberlain haa a longer head than his critics. In the matter of the grain tax, levied as one of the means of carrying on the Brltlsh-Boer war, which the government haa Just re mitted, Chancellor of the Exchequer Ritchie contended that it was "properly imposed as the result of a great na tional emergency." Granted; but what a nation has once done, a nation may again d in Such natters. Mr. Cham berlain In his estimate 6f the necessity for closer relations between the mother country and the colonies, for the com mon good of all In the face of oom petltors and enemies increasing in strength and aggressiveness, thinks he sees a great national emergency and one that le likely te become perma nent. The Colonial secretary has given the matter much thought. As it pre sents itself to him It Shows en enier gency, Indeed, in comparison with which the incident UAed to justify the late grain tax must sink into absolute Insignificance. In the colonial secre tary's view, the question he has raised involves the preservation of the pres tige and position of his country among the nations of the earth. If his coun trymen do not appear to see the matter in the same light that he does now, he need not consider as hopeless the task which he apparently has set himself of converting them. Greater feats in that line have been accomplished In modern British history. Wllberforce'a was such a one. That of Cobden was at least ten tlmee greater. Mr. Chamberlain, familiar aa he un doubtedly is with the parliamentary history of his country, roust at this moment find great encouragement from an analogy afforded by the closing year of Cobden's agitation and the opening days of his own. The cabled report ef the debate In Parliament Tuesday night says it Is predicted that "the gov ernment will relegate the thorny ques tion of a tariff preference to a royal commission, which will insure time for a full consideration of the matter an1 a thorough test of popular opinion." Tills la practically what was done by j the Peel administration in the last stage of the Cobden movement, when at the latter's request the proposal for free trade was referred to committee of Parliament for a public hearing. Free trade became a law within some six months afterwards. Mr. Chamberlain must congratulate himself that his proposition haa reached already the dimensions of Importance that Cobden's did after nine years of agitation, and which render It impossible to be brushed aside, and advance It to the front place among public questions of the hour. While the Chamberlain proposal may not find a place upon the statute hook aa soon after Its governmental referet e for public bearing as the greater change in fiscal policy proposed by Cobden did, yet there Is a likelihood on the whole that the project for a doner commer cial and political union with the colo ulea will, la the nature of things, gain In popularity among the English people with time. Action In a commercial way tending to distress British Industries and trade on the part of prott ttlonlst rivals will contribute to this result. So would a narrow escape from actual war with any one of these powerful com petitors. The latter Is a menace which may arise at any moment, with the effect of bringing the British people to a realizing sense of the need of ma terial assistance from the colonies, and the advisability of granting concessions through the tariff In order to secure It Then would be Mr. Chamberlain's opportunity, and he well knows tbat hn needs but wait perhaps a little while to have It present Itself. A UBt.RAL 5gJVr.VK.fr. A week ago today President Roose velt participated In the dedication at Washington City of a church, he being Identified with the denomination. He delivered what it is perhaps proper to call a sermon and It was charocterlzed by a spirit of liberality that was en tirely worthy of the chief executive of the republic and has received less at tention than In our Judgment It merits. The president urged that not only the particular church of which he was speaking, but that nil American churches, should give more attention to looking after the spiritual Interests of the people who come to this country from abroad. Referring to this an eastern pnper says that in contrast with the llbercl sentiments of the president "there are sO'called statesmen who talk of pushing the Immigrants back again into the sen for no better reason than that they are, poor, that they come from the south of Europe and that they acknowledge obnoxious creeds." It Is evident that President Roosevelt does not shrtre in this un-American spirit and that he will not be found among those who ore ready to close the gates of this republic against all foreigners. A BRIQHI'KSI&Q fHVSPSCT. While tnere are still some serious labor controversies throughout tho country awaiting settlement, the tend ency toward an adjustment of these differences Is steadily Improving and the prospect is brightening for a gen eral adjustment that will contribute most materially to the attainment of what all conservative men, both In the ranks of labor and of capital, most earnestly hope for, the preservation of Industrial peace. It Is a fact which no one who has kept careful watch of the progress of recent labor difficulties can have failed to see, tbat a more rational and conservative view of the relations between labor and capital is being man ifested on both sides and that there is a growing disposition on the part of each to Consider with greater deliberation and In a less unprejudiced way the real rights and interests of the other. The labor troubles of the . past aud present year, while begun under condi tion that x cited. jnore or less passion and bitterness, have really induced a most serious ' contemplation and study of the great problem involved which is leading to a more common sense view of the question than has ever before been experienced In this country, or perhaps in any other. Never before have the relations between capital and labor been so earnestly and intelligently considered and discussed as during the past year. Never before have the principles underlying these great forces been more thoroughly inquired into than within the' very recent period since the anthracite coal strike made a demand for the Interposition of the president of the United States In the In terest . of the general public. How marked has been the influence of the Judgment rendered by the Anthracite Strike commission upon public senti ment and upon organized capital and labor is obvious to everybody who bns given intelligent attention to the mat ter. The sound and indisputable princi ples enunciated by the commission. while having no legal force, have yet been recognized by courts as worthy of recognition and have been acknowl eqgea ry rotn mnor apa capital as founded upon wise, Just and equitable principles. It Is true that there has not been shown on all hands a disposition to acquiesce in the views ond opinions of the commission, but the tendency In this direction Is so manifest as to Jus tlfy the belief that inthe not remote future the general sentiment will ac cept unquestionlngly the principles laid down by that body In defining the true relations between capital and labor and the duties and obligations of each In respect to the public. We confidently believe that progress, substantial ond sure. Is being made to ward that great goal which ought to be first In the aim of the American people, permanent industrial peace, and we can not doubt that Its ultimate attainment Is as certain as anything dependent upon human agency. Let no one despair of a flnnl and satisfactory de termination In this country of the true relations between capital and lnlmr. One thing that strikes us rather forel bly In connection with the rival power canals Is that Omaha will need no mid dleman or middle corporation to supply electric lights for street Illumination. There certainly would be no valid reason why Oiiiiilm should buy Its light from an electric lighting company whenever It can procure Its supply of electricity directly from a power canal and thus effect a saving of the profits which the middleman expects to get from ladling out electric light second-hand. Omaha has declared for municipal ownership of electric lights and other utilities, and the mayor and council are pledged to this policy. It is as plain as the nose on a man's face that Omaha will fabricate its own electric lights 9t no distant day, unless it can buy its electric current from aa electric power company at a much lower price than It can be produced by steam power. In other words. Omaha will do Its own mu nicipal lighting whether It has to bulkl or acquire a plant for that purpose or buy electric current directly from a power cannl company. The only way the Thomson-Houston company can en ter Into a future contract with Omaha is by building the canal and supplying the light directly at n lower price than It can be fabricated by a municipal plant. If retribution mere administered promptly everywhere to public officers who repudiate platform pledges, as has been administered by Tom L. Johuson to the Ohio democratic legislators who supported a fifty-year street railway franchise for Cincinnati in defiance of the party's declaration, platform pledges would some day count for something. To make good his declaration that none of the turncoats should be returned Mayor Johnson Invaded the county of one of them and by personal appeals compassed the defeat of his aspirations for renomluatlon. The trouble generally is that the public memory Is too often too short to harbor up the misdeeds of the sell-out lawmaker and to keep his bad record confronting him whenevor he bobs up for a new commission. Columbia university has recently come Into possession of the most complete collection of anarchistic books, Journals, newspapers, pamphlets, posters, manu scripts, photographs, songs, etc., origi nally published In all pnrts of the world and in something like fifteen different languages. It is to be hoped that none of the students who may be set to work to dissect tills nccunaulution may be come Inoculated with the virus, as the supply of spontaneous anarchists seems quite equal to the demand without any additional marte-to-order recruits. The best thing for the university library to do is to quarantine the uew collection and permit no one within the red-light area who is not vaccinntionproof against the anarchy disease. The province of the Omnha weekly press of the mercenary brand is chiefly to make merchandise of principles and hold tip anybody that is willing to be bled. Great Opening; for Genius. Chicago News. The hour is ripe for the brainy engineer wno catt figure cut ho to store up flood Haters and set them to work Irrigating the country's arid places. Turn on the Light. AVashlngtbn Post. The editor of the Commoner has Issued another ultimatum. In which he declares 'We will never aocept any compromise With gold democrats." Who Is the other one of th "we?" A Thrilling: root Note. Chicago Post. Let all minor matters, such as the British tariff discussion, labor troubles, Russia and the Jews, etc., be set aside while we ex amine the new cotillon devised by the dan cing masters' convention. An I'nfortunato Omission. Washington Post. The exports of the Agricultural depart ment have figured out that bugs destroy $250,000,000 worth of grain, cotton and veg etables In this country every year. To this amount should ba added, to ascertain the real cost of the luxury, the salaries and ex penses of the men who have mad this dis covery. Heclproctl Favor. Philadelphia Record. In connection wUh postofflce revelations a oase of pur disinterestedness Is men tioned. Samuel Speich, who on Friday last entered ball in $20,000 for the appearance of Inspector Machen, some Urn ago gave up $2,000 poaltlon in order to become Ma- chen's bookkeeper, with a salary of $1,600. So friendly a move aa that evidently de serves recognition. Byproducts of Greatness. Boston Transcript. The controversy over the marital troubles of the late Thomas Carlyle le waxing as warm as If It were the case of some live earl, or msrquls, and his wife. Why not let the Carlyles rest In the peace they never enjoyed while living? You can dig out heaps of scraps In the history of almost any family If you are looking for these un pleasant by-products of greatness. Story with it Moral. Brooklyn Eagle. A man writes to the Eagle to Inquire: "How should Christians treat the Jews?" This Is the way one Christian treated one Jew. It Is an old story, but worth the re telling. The late William M. Evarts se cured for Edward Lauterbaeh .$2,700 in a law case In which Mr. LauterMeh's hill was only $1,110. lauterbaeh' thankful ac knowledgment was: "Almost thou persuad est me to be a Christian." CTT OVT EDICATIOHAIj PRILLS. Mota-Eaten Tramping; ot Colles-c Shonlil He Banlhet. Saturday Evening Post. A rich, self-made Chicago man ha put himself to a great deal of trouble to write a book tending to show by statistics and other facts that for purposes of success In business the college education is a failure. Many of the college people are laughing at him and beyond question he does go to the extreme of an extreme. At th same tlrre the man la honest, and the sound Idea In his book will bear fruit. Ther Is a theory that the body can be properly developed only by form of manual labor which are otherwise absolutely use less. Hence a boy scorns to learn farming or gardening or a trade, and spends years In studying foot ball, hand ball, polo and billiards. There Is a theory that the mind can be properly developed anly by forms of mental labor which are otherwise abso lutely useless. Let the ordinary college graduate hon estly answer this question: Except for "making a front." how much use have your Iatln and Greek, your analytical geometry and differential calculus, ever leen to you? The fuct Is that at the basis of much "sport" and much "higher education" lies the notion that there is superiority in ability to do, or plausibly to profess ability to do, what the maw of mankind haa not had the leisure to learn to do. As the run of humanity Is secretly snob bish, the craving for ornaments that are supposed to constitute the "gentleman," for the useless hands and Impeding frll lerles that are supposed to constitute th "lady." would perish Indefinitely but for on unsurmountable fact. That Is more and moi th world is getting to he place where only th worker, only th lusty, allv "hustler" can maintain a foot hold. And the college will hav to recog nl a th fact and to drop their beloved. moth-eatsa trappings ef msdlaavaUaia, RCTLAR SHOTS AT THR MIT1T. Washington Pot: A Brooklyn bishop ha decided to establish a fir Insurance company for the benefit of his church. W haa always supposed that fir Insuranc was a part of the church creed, anyway. Pittsburg IMspatch: That western church which has advised Its member to eschew th M of the telephone probably found a basis for Its action In the provocation of profanity which Sum kinds of service fur nish. Baltimore American: At a church synod lately the bride's promise to obey was stricken out of the marriage service. Syn ods need not worry themselves about the matter. The brides hav long ago at tended to the matter with a thoroughness and energy which leaves nothing to b desired. Moston Globe: The Tresbyterlan minister at Oswego, N. Y., who has made a con tract with a billposter to hill the city ad vertising his sermons, has shocked the con servative element of the place, but he may get an audience. Later on, also, ho may learn that the best place to advertise Is In the newspapers. Chicago Post: Ther Is wisdom in the suggestion of the Brooklyn divine who de clares that th churches should form a "combine" along the lines of the Steel trust. Fortunately, moreover, there are enough pious and prominent cltisen con nected with both the churches and the trusts to supervise th Job and bring it to completion. Outlook! Commercialism in politics, with Its characteristic venality, and the deca dent civic spirit which at one satlrlxes It and tolerates It both In municipal and state administration, have long been a matter of notorious Infamy, In the eyes of civilised nations our national shame and reproach. The details of this political profligacy that have been published during the last six months have at length burned Into the conscience of the churches a con viction of the moral danger threatening the national life, and of their own duty to sound the alarm and urge the remedy. En couraging notes ef the awakening con science demanding a moral revival and reformation have been sounded recently in various branches of the church, and it 1 nOn too soon. PERSONAL AND OTHKRWISR. School graduates ar the real exponents of optimism, and June Is their time to spiel. Hon. Joe Chamborlaln Is in a position to appreciate the full force of the late Dill Allen's remark about making the vote "too d -d unanimous." An Indiana merchant, filled with the spirit, burned his stock of tobacco as a druidlcal offering for hi past sins. The Stock burned well. It wai built that way. Hetty Green Is Said to be the owner of a $12,600 automobile. It is barely possible Hetty Is getting gay In her old age. but that she Is getting extravagant perish the thought. A German scientist is about to Investi gate the internal economy of "process but ter" tn Chicago, lie: might attain the same end more expeditiously by blowing out the gas. For th present at least Kansas la not disposed to pre th lawsuit agatnst Colo rado for a larger shar of th waters of mountain streams. It is believed Kansas could b persuaded to loan Colorado a few tuba. Several cities are congratulating them selves on the prospect of a noiseless Fourth of July. In. this Instance, at least, anticipation and realisation will not pull together not if Young America knows himself. . . . In condemning the us of telephones aa a sinful practice th old order of German Baptist display considerable wisdom. There ar times when It 1 mighty hard to us th telephone without smashing one of the ten commandments. Former Senator E3. O. Wolcott of Colo rado has been retained aa counsel in a slander suit between card clubs at Glen wood Springs. The ex-enator's vitriolic tongue and his rainbow vest will surely make the slanderer look like thirty cents. Som.i envious fellow discovered that a bridge under In Chicago has been drawing a salary of $600 a year for watching a brldg that haa not been opened for two years. 'Twas ever thus. Every time a man falls onto a good thing some nous mortal pulls his hammer and gets busy. Here and there a dash of pathos mingles with the tragedy of th nood. A Sedalta, Mo., paper reports that "W. M. Johns Is nursing a hugs boll en his neck and Is unable to attend the present series of base ball games." To "get It In the neck" vnder such circumstances sounds the depths of sorrow. A touching Incident of the flood at St. Louis commands half a column editorial In a local pnper. During a tumult occa sioned by the rising waters a watchful levee officer hastened to the firing line and in his rush overturned a can of foaming beer. A swim of two blocks brought the officer beyond the reach of the thirsty mob. A LOST CAL'SB. Proposition to Change Name of Epis copal Church Voted Down. Boston Transcript. Th majority ot dioceses In th Episcopal church have so far-voted against a change of nam. Nearly 2.UO0 clergy and 280,000 communicant have voted in the negative and ill clergy and 21.000 communlcunts have voted positively In the affirmative. Some dioceses took no action, a few were divided and other postponed the subject. Ther are other diocese to be hoard from, but these will not affect the result and many of them will swell the negative vote. After the apparent Interest In the change of name, which flrst came In a demonstra tive way from the wet, ther la now a lull In th dUcusalon of the subject. Many prominent clergymen of the advanoed srhool who were expected to champion the cause of the change have com out posi tively against It. It I now loat. While It may come up with a formidable front at th general convention, to meet In this city in tho fall of 1804. It la now believed by the most conservative that th subject will b quickly laid "Pn the table. Not a few of the representative bishop hav treated the matter Indifferently, and argued tren uiualy that the church attend to "vaster Issues." The unpopular side of this whole discussion has been disclosed In the fact that It 1 nothing more than an aeplratlon of a certain typ of churchmen. The have considered the name In th light of a misrepresentation of their own claim. To get rid of the legal title and obtain a his torical nam would b th entering wedg to other change. Tho so-called Catholic party In th Episcopal church is not lumbering- Recent events have proved that it la well organised. Many of ita number bold responsible position and hav in creased their InHuenc. Hut th conserva tlv east 1 also shrewd and far-sighted. New Hampshire has voted positively for a change, whll Main haa voted It down. This seema strange to on familiar with th tendencies In the repctlv dlooeaes, and yet It do not alter th conviction that th astern dioceses ar th strongest opponents of the ohang. Th matter may now be said to be set tled, and th till of tb church will cer tainly hav a nw leas of Uf for many rears te come. BRIDAL PLBDOB OMITTRD. Ober" ttrlekea (roaa the Matrlaaeato Rltnal of Oae thureh. New York Mll and Kxpreas. The general synod of the Reformed Church in America has eliminated from th bride's response, In Its marrlag service. lh word "obey." A th Reformed Church la one of the religious bodies which bellev In making their forms correspond with their communicants' real belief. It probably feel that by this setlon It has merely ratified the previous decision of tho Amer ican wife, who has eliminated obdloce rrom her rule or conduct. That tho contractual theory of marrlsg has taken deep hold of th people is evi denced by uoh acts na this on the part of religious bodies. The sacramental Idea In marriage necessitate obedience nominally on the part of the wife; but a a matter of practice It I found. In such unions that If the wife does not obey the husband, h has to obey her. The corollary of the contractual notion s divorce. And It Is the duty of th Re formed Church In America, together with thst of all other religious bodies that have abandoned tho Idea of authority In mar riage, to tell how they ar going to espouse th theory that marrlag la a contract, with no commartd r.r duty te obey any where, and also maintain the thesis that divorce Is a great evil. Undoubtedly American society Is Just now In the position of choosing between the old and the new, in this as In many other thing. And thoe who see no se curity for the marriage institution, no sur foundation for the family, outside of an ad herence to and vindication of the solemn wortla "love, honor snd obey, till death do us part," at least have consistency on their aide. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. ,Ar''ntCan't 1 y a talking ma chine? Mr. Watkyns-Not much! I'm marrld. Bomervllle Journal. He had married his typewriter, nd .now'"..rhe "Bl ",h question I wb eh of us will go t. the office snd which will stay home and look after th house, vt e are about equally unqualified for the latter Job." Chicago Post. Mrs. Popley Whst do you think? Baby spoke her tlrnt word today! Mr. Popley Well, well! And It won't b many years before she'll be having the last word. Philadelphia Press. He Now, there's n woman t can't help admiring. She is so easily satlsned; has 3Ueh plain tastes. Khe 1 didn't know you knew her. He I don't; it's her husband I know Brooklyn Life. I-ovett You don't believe in divorce then? Hayter No, sir; I've got too much sportin' blood. lx)vett What has thnt to do with It? Hayter I believe In a flght to the finish. Philadelphia Catholic Standard. Orumpygrump I wish church waa In the Hiiriiiu.ni i hp , r(i 'l tjir Tllltrnillg. Mrs. Qrump.VKrump Whv? Grumpygrump Oh, I can sleep so much better after dinner. Philadelphia Prees. "is he rich?" "Yes. indeed. ' "Are you sure?" "I have evidence." "What I? It?" "He proposed to Mabel Jopes and ah accepted lilm." Chicago Post. THE AMERICAN FLAG. (Flag Day, June 14.) When Freedom from her mountain height. Unfurled her standard to the air. She tore the asure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there! She mingled with it gorgeoua dye The milky baldric of .he skies, And striped its pur celestial white. With streaking of the morning light; Then, from his mansion In th sun, She called her eagle-bearer down And gave into his mighty hand The symbol ot her chosen land! Majestic monarch of the cloud! Who rear'st aloft thy regal form, To hear th tempest trumping loud, . And see the lightning lances driven, When strlv th warrior of th storm. And rolls th thunder-drum of heaven Child of the sun! to thee 'tis glvan To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke. To ward away the battle-stroke, And bid its biendings shine afar, Like rainbows on the cloud of war, The harbingers of victory! Flag of the bravel thy folds 'hall fly, The sign of hope and triumph nigh! When speaks the signal-trumpet tone. And the long line comes gle-'ming on, Kre yet the life-blood, warn and wst. Has dimmed th glistening bayonet, Each soldier's eye shall brlght.y turn To where thy sky-born glories burn. And, as his springing steps advance. Catch war and vengeance from the glanee. And when the cannon-mouthing loud Heave In wild wreath th battle shroud, And gory sabre rise and fall Like shoots of flame on midnight's pall, Then shall thy meteor glances glow, And cowering foe shall shrink beneath Each gallant arm that strikes below That lovely messenger of death. Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o'er the brave When death, careering on the 'gale. 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