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If THE OMAIIA DAILY PEE: SUNDAY, AUOUST 30, 1903. TlIE QMA1IA' SlTXDAV BE3 E. nOSEWATKIi. editor runuHHEU cvnnv moknino. TERMS OK 3V TSCnilTlON. rnllw (without Llll.(l.l I. I MIC 1 ar. .Jl CO Jiillv Uf nl s)itn.- - Illustrated Iiee, ('no :u' . 01 OUIHltlV t-.. . ; Bilnnlny lift, th.it tar Twentieth Century Karnwr. One ar. DKLIVEKlCU Hi CAKIllKit. Dally Hee (without dui..m.. ), l"r ci.py. f)nilv (wilhouk unu'l. U I Mftfrf. Daily Hee (innuu.i.e cu. .(!.). per weeli...c rJunuuy Mm, p' i...j . niurTiyo tvh'ahd lasdi.okdihu. CimiiIdk events cnst their shndows be fore A iloinl no Inrjrer tlmn a man's linnrt l.ns recently niipcnred In the horizon that foreslintlows 1 ho rapid and iln f istiblo drift of t lie American farmer toward I inillonllsm. A ni.i!tor of a century no farm ten- .1- mC J Evening- Uto (wiihoul Eunduj i. l r -Evening lee (including Suridjy). Pl'r, Week . -...IK; Complaints' of' ir.irgiifti lln--o ' .0l 'livery should be addressed to City Circulation Le- partmeht. OFFICES. Omaha-The Bee Wulldlng. Bouth Omahn-Clty liall Building. Twenty-fifth and M Sirei'ts. Council WufTs-lu feurl Street. Chicago Unity iliilldinK. New v0rk-138 Park Kow Building. Waahlnnon-6Jl Fourteenth Street. CORREBPOMJEWUB.. Jjhintry wg confined In thU country to ! tlio croup of tnt?n on the Atlantic sen- hoard, tjndtinily and steadily the vol untary desertion ly the farm owner and the Intrusion of the farm tenant renter lins extended westward, across Ohio, Michigan and the stites of the middle west, and (arm tenantry Is rapidly Hnendlntf over the great American corn belt and even the spring; wheat region to the north. More than one-third of the farm In Illinois are being cultivated by tenant farmers and fully one-fourth of the farms of Iown are already In the Communications relating to new; andedl-. pnnlp ron,itoni The robust, thrifty, rlal matter should be addressed: Omaha . . . torlal Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by dratt, express or postal order, payable to The iiee Publishing Company. Only ii-cent stamp accepted In payment or. mmi accounts, i eri.oi.al checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted . THE UfcE PUULISHINO COMPANX. HTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. self-made, slf-polsed, Independent farmer, who reclaimed the forest. planted orchards and vineyards, sowed, plowed and harvested the grain and raised the live stock on the American farm, has moved Into the towns and liloa tmlnKwl with tho Irion tlint lie State of Nebraska, Douglas County, M.: ' , . . . , deorge it. Tmcimck. secretary oi i ho uee ruust give his sons and daughters a city Publlsning Company, being duly sworn. . . , .,,. h.a from ays ' that the actual numuer 01 iu im ......... complete copies or ine wauy the drudgery and monotony or tne rarm Evening and Sunday Uee printed during the " ' was as follows: month of July, ino.1, 1...., (,lt 17.... 2..... ao,au I..... S1.140 19.... 4 :U,UaO 10.... 1 27,S4D ft-... t 80,700 I u,hzo a.... I HO,MV uo.uau 26.... 10 .ao.Tso n a,7TU 12 7,010 u ao.noo 14 UU,HU 15 ttO.UUtf 16 UUUU ToUU Liess unsold ajid returned copies ao.a&u house. And so we- find thousands and i ...an n . 1 ii a 41. a vnAnmnlitf thnt tl (l . UT,auo lieen recognized as the backbone of the .aatio r,.publlc living in the cities on their In- "aoiaoo rolue 'rora farm rn,B' tlielr bJ'8 nn(l !aubru girls looking with disdain and fre- ao.uoo nueutly With contempt upon the ten- air'140 flnts wl, nre compelled to eke out n ...ao.iro meager existence in tolling day and .so.iiuo night, summer and winter, to supply the land ewner and his family with the Net total sales aa,UT Mat average sales tft,73 GEORGE U. TZttCUUCK. n v Us a ao.aio ju XU.TilO u ao.oio I luxuries of city life. It does not take a prophet or the son of a prophet to foresee the natural and Inevitable consequence of the evolution of a land-owning farmer Into a landlord living upon an Income from direct rental .uua,ai3 Subscribed iu my presence ana swtavu to 0f his land or from shares In the crop irvivi w iu ktiisi ua w. w , wvw (Seal) U. tiCNUATE. Notary Public PAUTlkS LlfiAVlKU VOU. UUalKIt. Parties laavlua tka alr th nmaer may hsr Tb lies t to tkm resalarly by otlfrlaa Tk D Bsls Otea, la parson or sy saall. Tfca addraaa rtill h cbaagad raised by the tenants. In flue time a large proportion of the cltlfled farmers will drift from affluence Into poverty by extravagant habits, speculation and ventures Into business Jn which they have no experience. Their highly edu cated sons and daughters who have been taught to despise farm labor and domestic employments, demoralized by their environment, will be driven by sheer necessity to menial occupations far below that of the ordinary hired farm man or farm house domestic, while At all events, the city of Beyroot has the homestead, mortgaged to enable the bad a lot of free pictorial advertising farmer to Indulge in .the allurements out of It I of urban life, "M ill pass Into the owner ship of money lenders, land speculators and Incorporated land syndicates. This Is by no means an overdrawn forecast of the drift toward landlord- Ism. History Is sure to repeat Itself The causes' that brought about land lordism In Europe will bring about land lordlsm, with all Its wretchedness and It wasn't the marksman's fault that 1 misery, In America. So long as the his bullet went wide of the American owners of the goll are. tied to It by nat consul at whom it was aimed. "ral selection, ana so long as they and thelr's feel contented with their condl Tftwle Bam evidently needs A revised tlon. thff American farmers will continue cipher code for the use of his diplomatic to constitute the most law-abiding, most servants that is pot so easily subject to patriotic and safest class of American mistake. I citizens. But when the pwner of the soil becomes ambitious for quick riches Instead of holding the army nianeu- pnd when his family, discontented with vers for this military division in Kansas their environment and station, crave as planned, it may ba advisable to make and clamor for the luxurious life of the It a naval demonstration. capitalists and merchant nrlnces of our cities, there is great danger of a social Lucky that distorted message from evolution that bodes 111 to the safety ueyroot was not sent as a wireless tele- ot American institutions. gram or the wireless system would have recebed a very bad black eye. A street car line to Fort Crook must come sooner or later and the sooner the better. As a cup lifter, Sir Thomas Llpton Is not, the success on the sea that he Is at the tea. bio to the native population and that nil hope of HuhhIh abandoning the fruits of thirty yenrs of effort Is vain. 8o far as the t'nlted States Is concerned, he asserts that its only interest In the question Is the maintenance of the opep door and that this Is assured because wherever Iltissla Is there Is also the open door. Evidently the writer Is not very familiar with Ilusslun policy In this regard, since the facts are quite the opiosite of what he states. At all events, the world is now fully apprised of the purpose of Russia In Asia and how It will receive and treat this plain and unmlntakable manifesta tion of Russian policy Is a question of far more than ordinary Interest. What will Japan have to say in regard to the matter, which seems clearly to menace the Independence of Corea and there fore the security of Japan? What will Great Britain think of a move that threatens the integrity of the Chinese empire? Finally, what will the United States have to say of a policy that Jeopardises the open door principle for which our government has persistently contended? serve as the basis for a heavy political onslaught on the administration. All the mistakes of our hurriedly executed operations against Spain sink to Insig nificance IwsldeB the costly slips of the British In pursuit of the Boers. avxKiMJ Putt l.AKD aiiAunr.us. The hunt for land grabbers and land robbers Instituted by the Interior de partment promises to bring some big game within reach of Secretary Hitch cock's elephant gun. The disclosures recently made at the Instance of Mr. Broslus, agent of the Indian nights' association, concerning the Indian land swindles perpetrated by an organized syndicate of land speculators through the connivance of government ngents, have aroused the secretary to a realiza tion of the high-handed methods that have for several years been pursued by venal officials who have promoted fraudulent land leases and purchases of Indian lands In Oklahoma and In dian Territory. A larger Held of inquiry even than that opened in Indian Territory and Oklahoma has been opened recently in Colorado, where alleged frauds have been perpetrated In the location of pub lic lands. It Is charged In the Denver papers that hundreds of thousands of acres of coal, stone and timber lands A 1LUKIHU n-AJKBS. The decision of the president that the American squadron should proceed to Turkish waters appears to be fully war ranted by conditions as reported by have been fraudulently acquired by a our minister at Constantinople. It is few corporations and Individuals by the shown that Americans and American filing of fictitious names of paupers or Interests are In dancer iu a portion of persons paid a nominal sum for the the Turkish dominion and it is clearly use of their names as bona fide pur expedient to take some precautionary J chasers. In this manner titles have measures for the safeguarding of our been obtained from the government, the citizens and their Interests. The at- lands being transferred to the big cor tempt to assassinate the American vice poratlons and land grabbing Individ consul at Beyroot is very conclusive uals. evidence of a feellnir of hostility toward Thia Is by no means the first instance our people which should not be lightly when gigantic land frauds have been regarded. For the attack on the consul perpetrated by the filing of fraudulent the Turkish government has promised homestead and pre-emption papers. It to make amends, but It must be re- was n common practice not many years quired to afford all necessary protec- ago for rallrond magnates to hire bogus tlon to our consular representatives claimants to file on large tracts of mln- where the conditions are such as to eral lands and especially on coal lands put them In peril. in Wyoming and Utah under the na This our minister at Constantinople tional mining and homestead laws with has been Instructed to demand, with the deliberate intent of monopolizing a notification to the Turkish govern- the coal traffic. It Is an open secret mcnt that it would be held to a strict that these fraudulent entries were con- sccountahllltv for anv lawless act ntved at by officers of the land office toward Amnrlcan citizens. Doubtless I and Inspectors, but nolody has yet in assurances of protection will be given, voked the power' of the court to annul but thev will be more llkelv to be ob- these fraudulent coal land transfers or PF.HSojiAt An otherwise:. The two-minute trotter Is a genuine Loulu. ,8ir Thomas Llpton, the knightly sport of ths seas, wears ths "smile that won't com ofT." ' If Captain Wrlnge had turned a spank ing breesa on his baby topsail the result might have been different. A Jersey bachelor plunged Into matri mony the other day by eloping with a woman and her seventeen children. He wasn't looking for trouble, either. Seven deaths per month by street-car accidents have been the average In St. Louis since the first ot the year. The city Is determined to make room tor the ex? position rush. By the construction of a million-dollar stone arch bridge l.nso feet long over the Delaware river the Pennsylvania shortened Its line 400 feet and cut off twenty minutes of the time between Philadelphia and New York. Theater patrons have been crying "hats off" for years past. Now some of the clergy cry "hats on." The report that the theater and the church were getting to gether lacks confirmation. Meanwhile the dear girls, much as they try, can't please everybody. Scientists pronounce the discovery at Beverly, Mass., of an enormous jawbone as that of a prehistoric female. Perhaps the scientists know, or think they know, but friends of the cause will not accept their uiiHupported word that woman's clubs were ancient institutions In New England. The proposed school of Journalism 1b to deal with all the details of newspaper pro duction, with a view to Improving every branch. Probably the hardest task the school will go against will be a modifica tion of the strength ot the paste pot. Suc cess in that Important particular will make other tasks easy. The next reunion of the Orand Army of the Republic will be held at Boston. Evi dently the boys In blue hunger for another Mil of beans as a tribute to old times. But fceana are not the favorite dish at the Hub, notwithstanding Its reputation. Cod fish balls play the strongest game In the Interior department of the true Bostonlan. served by the Turkish government if there is an American squadron at hand to see that they are carried out Turkey is proverbially careless in regard to seen fit to call the perpetrators to ac count In the federal courts. It Is to be hoped that Secretary Hitchcock will probe all these nlleged promises, except where there is force 'and frauds to the bottom, and if suffl available to compel attention to them, clent Proof of fraud is obtained, cancel Of course the presence of an American the fraudulent entries and call upon the squadron in Turkish waters has no Department of Justice to prosecute the significance in regard to the Balkan perpetrators and their allies in and out troubles, with which the United States of office to the fullest extent of the law. has no concern. There Is widespread I unrest, however, in the Turkish em pire and the opinion of our minister that Americans and American interests are In peril amply Justifies the precau tion taken by the president, which tin-1 doubtedly will be very T generally ap proved by our people. Financial success for Iowa's state fair in spite of adverse weather conditions tells a tale of agricultural prosperity in the Iluwkeye state which no floods can wash away. RUSSIA'S POMTMtt IU ABU. The ukase of the emperor of Russia, placing the far eastern territory of the empire under the practically absolute authority of what la termed an "im perial lieutenant," strikingly " indicates the bold which Russia has upon the The funny part about the arraign-1 Chinese territory that has been ceded ment of the trusts by the lawyers grows to that power and of which it has taken out of the fact that almost all the big possession in recent years, in spite of trusts in thlr Inception are to be traced! the opposition and the protests of na to some lawyer's office. 1 tlons that ore seeking to prevent the dismemberment of the Chinese empire, inougii referring to it as "the Ohio The imperial order. Just made public, political omelet, the Chicago Chronicle clearly means the Incorporation of Man with unusual modesty falls to express churia in the Russian realm. While for an opinion on the sanitary condition of several years it has been a question the eggs that went Into the mixture. whether Manchuria was Chinese or Rus sian, the general opinion being that It was still in control of China,, the im perial ukase removes all doubt and demonstrates that this portion of the Chinese empire is unquestionably In the The Peking correspondent of the Lon don Times ventures the opinion that the existence of Corea as an independ ent empire Is doomed. If it comes to a partition of Corea. we may rest assured rontro, of Ru8a an(, ,t ,g the latvatton iuui v. xm.n see io im K ftf thftt pQwer m . The announcement of this was not If the work of the Denver conference "lather a, surprise. Not long since it Is repudiated by the Nebraska populists, was Miniated by the director of the bow can any one expect to make any AS1,luc Department or me uussian ror headway in other states? With Xe- n offlee ond ,nter by the Rln con braska populists voting to go out of Bul at ChlCBtt0- wno " that the ap buslness, what is left for the others ex- IK)lutm'nt of a viceroy for the Russian cept to follow their example? i What a sharp contrast as compared with the policy pursued by other rail roads la reflected in the advertisement of the Illinois Central holding out to all shareholders of record e free ride to the place of meeting of the corporation from the point on the company's line nearest the shareholder's residence. As A rule, the railroad magnates' who bap- pen to- be in control do everything in their power to discourage participation SSPABATIUff or THE PACKS. The view expressed by Mr. John Tem- nle Graves of Ueortrla. in bis most ex traordlnarr plea, for the m6b. that K minority owners in the meetings of "separation Is the logical, the Inevitable, tho shareholders that determine the the only solution of this great problem management of the property. They have of races," has received little support Deen Known nx tne meeting at tne in the south. A few newspapers have most distant place, where a half dozen approved the idea, but the general opin- PnId offlcers anl directors vote proxies ion is against itf on the ground that b? tue wholesale to re-elect themselves it is not onlv impracticable, but ana continue tne runng clique in power. also that the south needs the labor of is naraiy iikeiy mat minority snare its negro population. Thus a Memphis hoWerB ln any of the bl railroads have paper says: "The white people in ths influence enough to change the election states where the negroes are most nu- 01 aireciors as siaiea Dy me powers, merous would not let them tto. If Mr. b"t they must at least feel more friendly Graves or any other advocate of de- concern in the welfare and prosperity tortatlon will visit the cotton, sugar and rice regions of the great Mississippi consiuung ineir wtsne. Anu uie scuve valley and seek evidence to confute this 'merest 01 a large numuer 01 "man assertion, he will find that he has un- Bhareholders. especially when scat- dertaken to settle a heavy reckoning tered through the territory served by without his host And If he should go the cannot fall to be of material .k,, m oiin i,m benefit to It In its business relations auvui gs iiivsug n ft w r, vv-siBiaa) im iu that they were to be removed to distant wlth the Pub,lc nnrts. the onlv nuestlnn then would be whether the netrroes or the white Tne roHter ' new oflker8 JU8t cbo8eu ,4 ...i 1,1. i I by the American Bar association The south cannot afford to nart with ,a Angularly devoid of names recog its negro labor. It Is true that there nlzed as longing to lawyers enjoying Is a portion of it which is unreliable '"onal reputation In their profession, ii rv. n it. . it t .i...iit... LIFE'S ril AVIUM TKOIBL.ES. Anticipation Makes Them Greater Than They Really Are. Chicago Post. Thomas Dixon, Jr., pictures one of the characters In "The Only Woman" as hav. Ing carved across his oaken mantel the words: "I am an old man now; I've had lots of trouble, and most of It never hap pened." No doubt most of us when we near The end of life's Journey could give expression to the same sentiment. In general our troubles have three proportions according to our point of view. They are all fear somely large In prospect; the worst of them is bearable In actual occurrence; nd they shrink to s mere dot In retro spect. The great bulk of our troubles are those of anticipation, and a generic term for them Is worry. Most of them never hap pen and those that do have shrunken so that we saarcely can recognize them. The longer the perspective the greater the trouble; so we find our worries more- nu merous and more wearing before than after we have passed the meridian of our brief day. As we move gently, and we fancy a llttl more quickly, toward the sunset line and glanoe now and then back over the long and often rugged and tortuous trail, we see little of our earlier worries but phn toms of the troubles that never happened, and these grow even more tenuous as we travel from them until they are but lumlnoua vapor through which we view day that was much fuller of sunshine than of cloud and a winding pathway so thickly flanked with honeysuckle and lav ender that we cannot discern the oeea. sional thistle and briar. No matter at what time we take this backward view we may sea that most of our troubles never happened. There Is no specific like comparison for the cure of that dread malady, worry. No trouble Is as great as our fretting makes It and thl ought to admonish us to 1st fretting alone. The old man In the book Is the oounter part of many an old man of flesh and blood, and also of many an aged woman All of them have had lots of trouble, and most of It 'never happened.' From the ex perience of those who have gone nearly the length of the journey the young man and the young woman might say: "I am young; I expect to have lots of trouble but as most of tt will never happen, won't worry fabout any of It" and of little value, but that which can While the men thus honored doubtless I.. -1. -! .... ... till... .. I be denended unon is absolutely neees- "luuu 111 lur,r OM " sary to the industries of the southern are P"hl Ir'y representative of the states. It could not be replaced in the memoersnip or xue assoc.axioo cotton and rice fields b.v anv other tbey are not the 1?adera of the A,uerl labor, unless it be that of Chinese can bar and w,u certainly suffer by coolies, and public sentiment here would comparison with the great Jurists who not nermlt the Importation of such la tne PU8t uave K'aaiy errea in tnoso labor. Moreover, deportation of the capacities. This tendency to lower the noem la nractieallv out of the mixtion, standard of its Officers Oil the part Of Incorporatiou of Manchuria In the Rus- Judge Brewer's suggestion of the ab- B,ftn wn'm. It thus appears that the olltlon of appeals in criminal eases does csnr's government was not making any not sppcal strongly to lawyers who 8,vret r t,lp matter so far as Its own have not yet achieved plai-es on the olHelals were concerned and the in- bench. They never like to encourage "0,enco Is that this move was decided schemes to restrict their own useful- nn erpn Russia was giving as- ness or cut off prospective fees. sum net s that it did not intend to per manently occupy Manchuria. How this Sir Thomas Upton professes the be- latest manifestation of Russian policy lief that many Americans would like to In the far east will be regarded by the see him tnks the tup. Sir Thomas I Japanese and British Governments, ss ought to know enough by this tinw to well as by our own government. Is an know that he must not believe every- Interesting question. All these govern- thing he hears. If any Americans have meuts have been assured that Dothlng expressed sentiments as intimated, they was farther from the purpose of Russia were simply engaged iu giving Sir than to Impair the integrity of the 'Thomas s huge American "Jolly," Chinese empire. The latest action of Very few of them would be found will ing to leave the country and to under take to forcibly carry them away would tie extremelv exnenstve and liH7.nr1nn the American Bar association is regret table. If it Is not checked tl;o ancia tlon itself is sure to lose in influence aud prestige. n citizen, to remain fiere as the whites have and it is not to be doubted that An Interesting; Situation. Chicago Record-Herald. Turkey Is aatistled with the attitude of he would assert that right and endeavor Oreat Britain and Germany. The Drltons A speaker at the scsttfon of the Uni versal Teaco union describing the sig nificant' of th Fan-American canal declared that the completion of the project would wed two oceaua and make til mankind one family. A good look at the map would have given the Information that ths wedding took placs long ages Iwtrk when thp con figuration of the earth's surface united all ths great bodies of water sod di vorced all ths great bodies of land, that power appears to utterly disregard the assurance and to Justify the view that the Russian government has not been acting in good faith. ' In a late Kuglish magazine a writer who shows a thorough familiarity with the Russian situation in ths far east says that there is no possibility, in the pruaent state of things, of preventing by any means, short of wsr, the com plete execution of Russia's monopolising designs. He asserts thst the policy of that nation In Chins is entirely accepts- to maintain it to the utmost of his ability. It Is manifestly idle, there fore, to talk of separation as the only solution of the race problem. It cannot be accomplished and no one will for a moment look In that direction who is seriously seeking a solution of the per plexing problem. The negro will re main in the south becavse the indus tries of that section need him and the wise policy Is to treat him Justly and give him opportunity to Improve and elevate himself. and Germans are still patiently collecting the Interest on what Turkey owes them. The Injunction l.tnilt, Minneapolis Times. An Omaha man has been enjoined against speaking to his wife and children, but the court aays nothing about his wife giving him a piece of her mind the next time she sees him. - This government by injunction has been carried too far. Give the Old Man a Show. Kansas City Star. Btlll the refusal of the War departmen to permit the exhibition of old Gcronlmo, the Apache chief, at the World's fair In Sit T k 11 1 . wilt nnl n r n v ti I thU tnf.rA.tl.iiv It seems that the British military ctmVert to Methodism from letting his liaht authorities in their testimony before the so shine that men shall see his good work commission of inquiry Into the conduct of the Boer war sttribute the protracted conflict and repeated reverses to Incom petent direction both In the war office aud on the field, as well as to mistakes snd blunders, excusable snd inexcus able. If such a report were published and glorify their Heaven. Father which la in SECILAR SHOTS AT TUB rfl.l'IT. Cleveland flnln ealrr: An Indiana min ister and several members of his flock are reported to have lost all the money they put Into the Co-Operative Turf association, of New Orleans, because the postofflce of ficials saw fit to close the concern. There is little doubt that they would have loM it anyway, but the present clrcumataiKPS give them tho happy chance to rull at the ftlclousness of Uncle Sum's myrmidons. Sprlnglleld Republican: Why do not the American ofliclals In the Philippines go te hurch more? This serious question has been considered worthy of an answer by Isishop Brent of Manila. In the first place. ho pronounces false tho report that our 1'rotesttMat. representatives stay away from church In order to ploitse, or avoid dis pleasing, the Koman Catholics. While Gov ernor Taft attends the bishop's church in Manila, the great majority of Americans do not go to any church, becauso 'hey would not go at home. This seems a per fectly rational explanation. Americans are Americans everywhere. Brooklyn Eagle: The pope misses his tramps In the country, his evening at whist and his game of tenpins. He finds the Vatican furnished with all the comforts of a home, but with no outside privileges. The circumstances which restrict him to that inclosure are sn political and from the point of view of the papacy so Impor tant ss to be stronger than his power to break them or to break with them. He- Bide, when Leo XIII started from the Vatican for the purpose of accompanying the body of Plus IX to the grave, the fu neral procession was mobbed and those who took part In It were bruised and wounded. That furnishes small encourage ment for Plus X to go outside. Lemlle's Weekly: We regret to read that a church in the neighborhood of New York has thought It necessary In order to raise money to build an extension to ask each saloon keeper in the parish to give one day's receipts each month for four months to the building fund. The case afford, perhaps, an extreme Illustration of the absurd and harmful expedients resorted to by churches to swell their financial re ceipts, expedients which tend to bring re ligion Into disrepute and directly to swell the number of nonchurchgoers, of which we hear so much complaint In these days. The churches and the saloons stand too far apart In their character and purposes to make It expedient to yoke them to gether for any purpose. The saloon may profit by the arrangement, but the churches never. Portland Oregonlan: It is reported that a bishop of the Episcopal church in New Jersey has Issued a mandate to churches In his diocese that women be not allowed to appear In church bareheaded. Whether this is designed as a rebuke to the "new woman," who is supposed to be growing 'mannish," or a hint to crusaders against big hats In public places to mind their own business, or a rally to the defense of the Pauline idea that' It Is a shame for women to appear In church with their heads uncovered, can only be surmised. If the latter, it is pertinently asked whether the New Jersey churchman will be consistent and enforce the ether rule that requires women to keep Bllence In churches and run the sewing society himself; or whether he la prepared to enforce the Paul ine views on the wisdom of refraining from marriage, which would abolish wed ding fees. I ' .i i, i i-J no.MK.9TIC ri.KAHTRIE. "I am dolns my lx-st to convince Oeorgs thnt I am economics I." "Whul hiive you done?" "1 lieve worn the wimi dress twice. Cleveland Plain lxaler. "Your salary isn't enough to support my tlntishter, nlr' "I'm Kind vnu've come to thst conrlu slon po eerly, sir." Detroit Free Prea. Jsck-"Ynu should have seen how mad old Hoxlcy was when 1 told him 1 proposed to mirrv his dsnahter." Ned "Kicked like n mule, eh?" Jack "No; 1 wish he had. A mule only kicks backward. 1 believe." Philadelphia Catholic Btundard. Toss Roxlev's young widow has two mil lion dollnrs, I hear. jessYes; Just think of earning that much money In one year. L Tess Why. she did n t earn me money herFelf jcRHOf course she did. Wasn't she msrv rled to him for a year? Philadelphia Press. "You shouldn't allow yourself to be r rlnted. It wears on voii. You must never In Ik back to vour wife. "You're out of your reckoning there, doe. tor. I never get the chance. Cleveland Plain Denier. "I wish," he said, "vou could make pies I.Ike mother used to hake." "And I," said she. "wish that you made The cash pa u-sed to make." Cincinnati Tribune. TUB PHANTOM. Bayard Taylor. Women Teachers Sob for Liberty. Kansas City Btar. It is quite certain that among the "sa cred and Inalienable rights" for which the fathers of the republic contended, none was more sacred and Inalienable than the right to court and be courted. The as sertion of this prerogative well becomes the men and women In Kansas who train the young Idea how to shoot. And as teaching seems to qualify Its followers for matrimony, there la no reason to suppose that matrimony might not, by a reciprocal operation, At Its votaries for the work of public Instruction. Acaln I sit within the mansion. In the old, familiar sent; And shade and sunshine chase each Other O'e'- the carpet at my feet. Hut the sweetbriar'e arms have wrestled upwards In the summers that are past. And the willow trails Its branches lower Than when I saw them lust. Tliy strive to shut tho sunshine wholly Prom out the haunted mom; To fill the house, that once was Joyful, With silence and with gloom. Am' many kind, remember'd faces Within the doorway come Voices, that woke the rweeter musla Of one that now is uuuib. They sing In tones ar. glad as ever. The hours she loven to hear; . Thev braid the rose In summer garlanai Whoso flowers to her were dear. And still her footsteps in the passage, Her blushes at the door, Her timid words of maiden welcome Come buck to me once more. And, all forgetful of my sorrow, Unmindful of my pain I think she has but newly left me, nd soon will come again. She stays without, perchance, a moment. To dress her dark-brown hair; -I hear the rustle of her garments Her light step on the ttalr. O. fluttering heart, control thy tumult, Iest eyes profane should see My cheeks betray the rush of rapturs' Her coming brings to me. She tarries long; but lo, a whisper Beyond the open door. And gliding through the quiet sunshine, A shadow on the floor. Ah, 'tis the whispering pine that calls me. The vine, whose shadow strays; And my patient heart must still await her. Nor chide her long delays. But my heart grows sick with weary walt As many a time before: Her foot is ever ot the threshold, Yet never passes e'er. t SCHOOLS. BROWNELL HALL, OMAHA. Boolal atmosphere home-like and happy. General snd aollege preparatory courses. Exceptional advantages In muale. art aa4 literary Interpretation, fiepares for any college open t( women. "1'aesar. Wellesley, Mt Holyoke, Western Reserve University, University ot ISebraska and University sf Chicago, admit pupils without examination the certificates pi me pnncipai anq on facull Thoroughness Insisted upon as - v. sentlal to character building. Physical training under a professional director. Well equipped gymnasium, ample provl slon for out door sports, Including private grounds. Bend ror inusiraiaa oais Miss Macrae, principal. skating jogue. Supremacy of the Sea. New Tork Tribune. Oreat Pan was dead centuries ago, and Neptune has descended from his briny throne, lie has abdicated his dominion, has cast aside his crown of seaweed, and In this country with reference to the has sulkily sought refuse in ths gloomiest conduct of war with Spain or tb sup- recesaea of the Innermost caverns of dark ptvsslou of the Filipino insurrection s " oc Herrethoff is the ruler of the nu mwu lucre win oe iiiung ri waves, where anyone to dlaouta his uunmW In by ths popocratic yellow Journals to bis chosen caluug. tremendous rattle would be stirred up VICE or PROFANITY. "Clean Tonga Denotes, a Clean Brain and a Clean Heart." Baltimore American. President Roosevelt, In his address lately to the Holy Name society, whose members had assembled In convention at Oyster Bay gave some sound and much-needed advice which the young men of the nation would do well to lay to heart. The society I question Is one organised to fight the vice of profanity, blasphemy and foul language. The president, in his commendation of the object of the society, laid stress on the necessity of keeping a clean tongue, and on the mischievous effects of young men snd boys thinking It "smart" to be vicious. In the natural order cleanliness Is next to godliness, but moral cleanliness is godli ness Itself. The clean tongue denotes s clean brain snd a clean heart; for, ho mat ter how much the old excuse is given for the profane habit that one means nothing by it It Is undoubtedly true that "out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speak eth," snd If nothing really was meant nothing of the sort would be said. Of the moral effects of the habit of using profane or objectionable language nothing need be said, as they are self-evident. But there is another phase of the matter which does not so forcibly assert Itself. A clean brain Is also a keener brain, a more receptive and a better brain for all practical purposes than a foul one. Just as a rasor or a knife Is at Its best and its edge sharpest when It Is kept free from soil, so the mental faculties are in better working order when they have not been dulled by the friction of foulness In thought or expression. It is the Inevitable law of nature that there must be cleanliness or there will be loss; purity Is one of Its es sentials for perfection In anything. The brain and the tongue are no exceptions to the rule. And even boys who early1 learn to swear as a proof of manliness have an Inherent respect, of which they cannot divest themselves, for the clean-tongued ones among them, which of Itself Is a proof of the weakness of their own stand ards. And weakness is one of the vlcee which the president sturdily decries In any sort of gehulne manhood. It la impossible for a man to be ha bitually foul of speech snd not deteriorate In kind In character. A constantly exerted Influence could no more be resisted than could the rock resist the constant dropping of water. The habit, besldea, of profane or unclean speech, of filling "each vaeulty of sense with sn oath," la such a foolish one, so barren of pleasure or Of satisfac tion In any way, yet its coat Is out of all proportion to Its acquirement. It demands the sacrifice of refinement, of self-respect in many Instances, of the respect of others, and of virtue, and In return It gives noth ing. It would be well for the young to de vote soma thoughtful attention to the timely itinerant the ta-Mldeat oa this subject j5 Assets, hM j $331,000,01 Surplus, "Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works no outside help can avail him; but each man must remember that he is his brother's keeper." THEODORE ROOSEVELT. It Will Pay You to Investigate. t Equitable LIfa Insuranca Society, "Strongest In the World," In the first place, the Equitable Society is the strong est financial institution in the world. In buying these Bonds you know that both interest and principal will be paid when due. 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