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TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: BUND AY, MARCH 27, ' 1004. 18 Tiie Omaiia Sunday Per B. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. ' ! - , i ,, PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. D" (without Bunrtny). on Year $4 II1T Ho and Bilnday. One Tear Iliutratl Her, otw Tear '" H.in1ay B-o, On Vr J W aur.tsy Hee. On Yoar J j Twentieth Century Farmer. One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Pally Ree (without Sunday), pr copy... Dally Bee (without Bunrtny). per week...Lc Daily Bee (Inrludlr, Sunday), per week I J Bundar B'-e, per copy J Krenlns. Bee (without Sunday), per week. c Evenlnif Bee (Including Sunday). Per . I' Comrlalnt"or''ir'rf-KUlarltv In delivery hould he addreaaed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Bouth Omaha-City Hall Building, Twen-ty-flfth and M street. Council BlntTa 10 Pearl Street. 'Chlcaao 1M Vnlty Pnlldlr. New York 2TS Prk Row Building. Washington- Fourteenth Btreet. CORREBPONDENCE. Communications relating to new A edi torial matter should ha addressed: Oman a Boa, Editorial Derartment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal er. payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment oi mall accounta. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepten. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska., Douglas County. "' Oeorgo B. Ttschuck, secretary of TM Publishing -Company, being duly eworn, ay that the actual number of fill ana complete copies of The Dally. .Morning. Evening and Sunday Beo printed during tne month of Februsrv. 1904. was as fllow"- 1 28,830 1C J0.430 I ,...1.400 17 80.870 I... L.SMSO 16 3' Bft.OSO 19 81.M" t SB.ORO SO.BTO t.mn n t a.rtio n i.o4o a sn.tao t 80,600 14 3.1.03O It S3.BTO 34.240 H na.i60 a 81.40O It 83.120 f7 81,720 II 80.040 a 3T.OHO 14 aOJIlM O 81.0.TO IS 80,800 Total 87T.120 UN unsold and returned copies.... Q.6 Kat total sales H0T.4T2 Ktt average sales ao,012 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. flubscrlbed In my presence and sworn to before mo this 1st day of March, A. D., 1904. M. B. H UNGATE. (Seal) Notary Public. If Bona tor Burton be ncquitted by a Missouri Jury his vindication will bo complete. lie comes from Kansas. Russia claims tbe first victory on land, but It will find that the supply of men Is more easily replenished than war- f ulilns Italy's decision o preserve the castle of Canossa Is not one of the evidences of the cordial feeling between Rome and Berlin. A change In the prize ring champion ship attracts a good deal less popular excitement In these days than a first class horse race. In spite of neutrality proclamations the United States will sympathize with Russia, as both bare 'a canal problem to solve at the same time. The Iowa state senate has turned a deaf ear to the appeals of rival locations to secure the removal of the School for the Deaf from Council Bluffs. - How lucky for the anarchists of Italy that the accident to the steamship Koe nlg Albert happened after the emperor of Germany had disembarked. John Mitchell's advice to the Colo rado miners Is to refrain from work and from dlttorder. Good advlco from the union standpoint, but bard to fol low. Deposed"klngs" on the board of trade can teach champion prize fighters one lesson. They art not wont to set up a cry of fraud or favoritism when they are deposed. If the public bad been aware that Colonel Arthur Lynch Intended to per petrate an historical novel, Its Interest In' his release from prison , would not have been so 4aep. It will not hurt tbe party for South Dakota democrats to endorse Ilearst, but " such endorsement from states which send democratic votes to the elec toral college are as yet quite few. Omaha Is over on the increase aide of the weekly bank clearings ledger, while tbe average for the country is down in decrease figures. Omaha as a business body corporate la enjoying excellent health. Are you planning for a visit to too St Louis exposition this summer! If so, save your traveling expenses by captur ing one of The Beo's World's fair trips. Sixty people will go to St Louis at Too Bee's cost why not yout Russian diplomacy has at last come to an end and the czar now Informs the public that tbe present war must result in Russian pre-eminence on the raciflc coast of Asia. The threat is not so surprising as the admission. No danger for the present that the new guns which tbe British government is installing at EsquinjaJt, an which are said to be powerful enough to send nhot to the shores of the United States, will be turned in this direction It was to have been expected that the county commissioners would be sur prised when officially informed that the plumbing at the county hospital is de fective, although they had been indi vidually aud collectively told so many times. Systematic co-ordination of all our local charities would soon smoke out the fake Institutions that absorb money col lected under , false pretenses from phil anthroplc people who Imagine they are helping along a worthy causa. A co operative charity organisation would put the staap of legitimacy upon all sfterltortous Institutions and societies and brand tiio fake -and frauds with nuiUtaaabla lubeU, ' PUBLICITY ADD XUPtHYlStOS. The decision of the united States su preme court in the Northern raciflc merger case emphasized In broad terms the right and duly of, the national gov ernment to exercise supervisory author ity over corporations engaged in Inter state commerce. Now that this broad principle is fully established no corpora tion, however powerfully Intrenched, can refuse to make the reports required by the Department of Commerce con cerning its capitalization and financial condition. The Imperative necessity of periodic publicity of corporate operations Is now admitted even by the trust magnjrrrs, who feel the need of protection against each other as much as they do the res tcrutioa of public confidence In their securities. It has taken two months for the United States Steel corporation to prepare a report showing why It did not pay the dividend ou the common stock which was earned Inst year, and It will take a good deal longer for Its man agers to explain away the awful slump In the market value of Its stocks since the searchlight of publicity was thrown upon the operations of the shipbuilding trust. According to the best Information ob tainable, the net earnings of the fruited States SteVl corporation for the three years of operating amount to $01,000, 000, exclusive of the cash surplus of $2.-.,000.000 with which the companv started business. It Is conceded that If the holders of common stock had been paid dividends to the value of 4 per ?nt for 11)03 there stlil would have -been left over $.",000,000 surplus for the yeir aud p. most $(50,000,000 for the three years, which would certainly have been Mitlsfni-tory to the holders tf common stock. 1 he failure to pay dividends Is n scribed to an unexpected demand for ensn to pay bills, and the curtailment of 'redlt unions bankers, who are the chief benellc'aries of the corporation, as well as the chief owners of the preferred sleek. It Is not disclosed, however, why these benevolent bankers changed part of the preferred stock Into 5 per cent bonds. $20,000,000 of which were sold to a syndicate of the same hanking com bine, while the $30,000,000 were un loaded upon the confiding public. Of course, It would be ungenerous to suggest that Mr. Morgan, who controls the company and was at the head of the syndicate to raise the cash, mixed bp his interests and got the concession be- ause the bonds were worth far less than the price agreed upon. It tran spires, also, that $0,000,000 is still dne to the company from Mr. Morgan and his friends and If that had been paid there still would have been sufficient surplus to have redeemed promises made to the common stockholders. All this juggling with Steel trust funds could, however have been prevented had the Department of 'Commerce been in position to make a searching Inquiry and exercise such supervision as would protect stockholders and the public at large from the. rapacity of the Inside ring that manipulates the Steel trust What .-is applicable, to the Steel trust would be equally applicable to1 all the other trusts and corporations engaged In interstate commerce. While publicity alone could not prevent the destruction of competition or restraint of trade, It would effectively block confidence schemes by which worthless securities have been floated and our entire com mercial fabric has been menaced with panic and ruin. - 1JV THiC riXAL HBTTLBMB11T. In tbe great conflict that Is going on in the far east all the powers of the world are interested. It follows that In tbe final settlement of that warfare the nations which are now incidentally concerned In the conflict will require the belligerents to consider more or less the obligations they owe the re spective powers of Europe. What that will involve Is a question of the ut most moment to the civilized world. The time has certainly gone by when at the close of a war two Important belligerent nations can be permitted to make a treaty of peace upon terms sat isfactory and convenient to themselves in disregard of tbe interests of other nations. The powers Intervened to shape the terms of peace between Ja pan and China; they controlled the set tlement between Turkey and Greece. When Russia was at the gates of Con stantinople and in the treaty of San Stefano dictated terms altogether un acceptable to the powers, the concert of Europe Interposed and established very - different conditions of peace In the treaty of Berlin. Less than a dec ade earlier Europe had made a great blunder, la permitting Prussia to ex tort harsh and savage terms from con quered France and the ruthless policy of Bismarck was responsible for condi tions which have ever since kept alive the sentiment and the policy of revenge as a perpetual menace to the peace of Europe. What relation the United States will have in the final settlement of tbe con flict with tbe powers In Asia is a mat ter of future determination, but one of the utmost Interest and importance. Our government has already placed Itself In a very strong, positive position la respect to Us rights and privileges In China. It has established certain treaty claims there of which there can be no doubt or dispute. China has conceded them and they have been acknowledged by the Russian government Bat for the moment the latter declines to per mit such rights to be exercised and our government Is not enforcing them for the obvious reason that to do so might cause an issue which might lead to troublesome consequence. It does not follow, however, that this position Is unchangeable. The great proposition is as to what the attitude of the United State will be when the final settlement of the eastern war will come. In a speech made in tbe United States senate a short time ago Mr. LVpew Mid that pur policy must be to maintain as far as possible the integrity of China and her autonomy and that "we. are going to be consulted when that time comes and this Russian Japanese war ! over, no matter which side Is the - victor. We are to be con sulted because the adjustment la not to be made, nor to be permitted by the rest of Europe to be made, by those two powers, but t by a European con gress, the, same as It has always been." The probability Is that the New York senator did not make this declaration without knowing something of the feel ing In administration circles in Wash ington, but In any event It Is' certain that whatever may-be the outcome of the far eastern war the United States will have something to say In the final adjustment, so far as its Interests are concerned. THS IMMIGRATION PHOBLBM. Enthusiasts for further restriction of Immigration, who feel that unless the doors are completely shut against the inflow of Immigrants entering from Europe the nation will be swamped with an onasslmilablo population, should read and study'the dispassionate analysis of the Immigration problem by Roland P. Falkner In the current Political Science Quarterly. Dr. Falkner, who ranks high as an expert statistician and eco nomist, deals with the cold, hard fig ures of our Immigration statistics and refuses to be stampeded by sentimental Ideas of natlvlstlc superiority. He calls attention to the fact that popular Inter est In the Immigration question rises and wanes with every rise and ebb of Its tide, and that the volume of immigra tion, subject as it is to marked fluctu ations, is irregular in its rise and fall, being now In an' upward movement, culminating in the record-breaking fig ures of the past year, approximating close to the 1,000,000 mark. Thoso who advocate greater restric tion than is already imposed. Justify their contention by arguing that Immi gration Is not only Increasing in -quantity but deteriorating in quality. These two propositions, namely, that we are adding not only an Increased number of foreigners to our population year by year and that these additions are on the whole less desirable than those of former years, are taken up separately and subjected to critical Investigation. Dr. Falkner tries to arrive at a rea sonable estimate of the net figures of population resulting from immigration by deducting the loss by death of their own number and those who return to their old homes after a comparatively short sojourn In this country. He also tries to eliminate those who are counted two or three times because of immigra tion to the United States followed by a revisiting of their native countries and checks up the statistics of tbe immi gration bureau against the returns of foreign-born population in the 1900 cen sus. ..lie insists that to. estimate the force of the immigration movement we must take the gvoss figures with con siderable allowance, particularly since general conditions, such as greater ease and cheapness of transportation, make It highly probable that temporary so journers and those counted twice were much less numerous in former years, so that the effective immigration repre sented by the figures was relatively larger then than now. Grouping the statistics by decades and reducing them to a percentage ratio tbe conclusion is forced "that the Increase of foreign born population was a less percentage of tho recorded immigration at the last census interval than at any preceding, and from the standpoint of population the immigration problem is not now a greater problem in its quantitative as pects than It was fifty years ago." Considering the second premise that recent. Immigration Is less desirable than formerly with reference to the character of the new-comers, Dr Falkner affirms tbe commonly accepted state ment that the centers of Immigration are shifting from northern and western Europe to tbe southern and eastern areas. Ha expresses the opinion fur ther that the Increase in the purely tem porary immigration, indicated by the low percentage of women and children, has gone hand In hand with the shift lng of immlgratl6n centers and while deplorable In Introducing Into the body politic a class of people not only alien In fact but determined . to remain so, this undesirable temporary immigration mnst he considered separate from tbe problem of permanent Immigration, which turns on the probability of as slmllatlon to the conditions, standards and ideals of American life. The ob jectionable feature presented by the herding together of the foreign-born in cities, he Insists, cannot be taken as an evidence of unwillingness of the Immi grants to adapt themselves to new con ditions, and he even doubts whether It is a serious obstacle to adaptation and assimilation for the promotion of which the great agency Is the public school system, operating as It does constantly upon the children of the Immigrants. As to the capacity for adaptation to new conditions, tbe statistics show that the illiteracy of Immigrants over 14 years of age Is no greater now than for the average of the last ten year and has not perceptlby affected tbe per cent of illiteracy in the total popu latlon of the country. The aame Is true with reference to the ca pacity to earn a livelihood, the percentage of Immigrants having no oc cupation varying but little. Dr. Falk ner, therefore, feels justified In ventur ing the assertion "that there has been no appreciable deterioration in th anal lty of Immigration, Judged from the standpoint of occupation, and that what it Is today tt ha always been." And he conclude hi entire study by ssklng this question: "Should the matter rest where It now stands; may we not hope that th doubts now expressed, whether th cation can successfully . absorb the Immigrants of today will prove quite as unfounded as those which found re pression some fifty year ago when the first great influx of Immigration c cured?" All rational and unprejudiced cltl sens who realize how much the country owes to the Immigration of the past and are Interested In a continuance of Its progress and prosperity will certainly echo this hope. GAMBLING IV HUJH LlFH. It is not always politic for a public man to call a spade a spade, but District Attorney Jerome of New York, who is carrying on a campaign against public gambling In Greater New York, does not appear to be a respecter of persons or classes. In a recent address before a committee of the New York state senate he bluntly declared that the men and women in upper tendom are more ad dicted to gambling than the men and women in the lowest social scale. To be more specific, Mr. Jerome asserted that men In the two leading social clubs In New York today the University club and the Union club were in close touch with professional gambling re sorts, and that playing for money has come to be so frequent among women of the smart set that it attracts no atten tion. This is positively shocking, but it is lamentably true. It Is an open secret that while open public gambling has de creased in our larger cities, the disap pearance of semi-public gambling has been accompanied by a strange increaso In gambling among people who move In gilt-edged society. It is also a mat ter of notoriety that even the young ladles' fitting schools have to keep a constant sharp eye on their students to prevent gambling. Members of college faculties ore 'well aware of the fact that vicarious athletics in which a man watches another man play has stimu lated gambling on a colossal scale, but they show no disposition to suppress It In the national capital gambling in cer tain-public places has much decreased, but stock gambling, and so-called in vestments In get-rlch-qulck enterprises of a hit or miss character have multi plied enormously. As a matter of fact the gambling spirit permeates all society and the temptation to play for stakes, large and small, appears to be irresistible, especi ally among the Idle classes. In spite of the suppression of various forms of gam bling in our cities, the gambling vice Is increasing rnthef than decreasing. The lottery, the public gambling halls and policy shop are being gradually stamped out, but gambling In high life has become one of the accomplishments of exclusive society and whenever the search light of publicity is turned upon the gilt-edged, there is an outcry rnUed that it is positively shocking. , , - The money-making - presses of the Philadelphia mint are running night and day under high pressure and turning out $1,000,000 in gold coin every twenty- four hours, and all the machinery . of the mint will be' kept in-motion. for at least 100 days, until $100,000,000 In half eagles, eagles and double eagles shall bye been delivered to 1 the national treasury. Nothing else Is doing; not a sliver coin is being bandied. Whether this fact will Impress itself sufficiently on the mind of W. J. Bryan to convince him that there is another conspiracy against silver that Justifies a popular up rising Is, however, problematic. Senator Hansbrough declares that the movement to secure the repeal of the desert land law, tbe timber and stone law and the commutation of the home act is due to the efforts of tbe lobby composed mainly of holders of large tract 8 bought from railroad companies. This is a serious charge, but the senator from North Dakota must also be aware of the fact that land grant railroads maintain a lobby that looks after their interests on the floor of the senate. Of the two sets of lobbyists those on the floor are more dangerous than those who frequent the cloak rooms. Chicago ministers have decided to re frain from Joining in the pulpit attack npon Senator Reed Smoot as planned by the .National League of Woman's Organisations of America. Tbe Chicago preachers declare that in their Judgment It Is inadvisable and that they believe congress can deal with the Smoot case without them. In this conclusion their Judgment is eminently sound. Th Smoot case is not to be disposed of by a hysterical appeal to popular sentiment but upon constitutional law and estab lished precedent. The bill granting tbe states police power over original packages of bottled malt and spirituous liquids has been re ported favorably by the Judiciary com mittee of the lower house of congress, and Iowa breweries and distilleries will presently enjoy the monopoly of supply lng the constantly increasing demand in that state for bracing stimulants. There Is nothing in the bill, however, that will prevent importations from Milwaukee by pipe line Judge Swayne's chief .defense to th impeachment . charges formulated against blni consists of tbe production of numerous letters of attorneys prac ticing before him endorsing him for promotion at various times when the president had vacancies on a superior bench to fill. It would be a poor Judge Indeed who could not get a collection of fulsome testimonials from sycophantic lawyers practicing In his court Commissioner Ware' explanation of the reasons for his order on disability pensions is not designed to make him popular with the physicians, who, he says, have cost tbe government more for examinations of applicants than the pensions would have amounted to. The trial of Senator Burton has focused popular attention upon the fact that lawyers who occupy seats in the national legislature do not scruple to accept retainers from corporations and Individuals who bav Job to log roll through congress, or through any of thef departments, when it Is as plain as day light that the retainer Is nothing more nor less than a smooth way of placing a bribe where it will do the most good. Those hair-cutting hazers at Michigan university must have a stand-In with the barbers for a share of the profit when the sheep-shea red victims come In to have their locks touched up to make them once more presentable. At all events the hair-cutting frenisy of the hazers on the campus is only a step further advanced than the hair-splitting mania of the professors in many of their class rooms. f Having proved to his own satisfaction before a board of Inquiry that Iondon cannot by Itself successfully, operate n line of street cars, Mr. Yerkes has reached the point where he can send out a prospectus showing how much there is In the business for a private company. The Postofflce department is alwut to Issue its commemorative series of Louisiana Purchase exposition postage stamps. This Is one of the few places in which the government's Investment In exposition stock brings in direct re turns, The success of the Omaha High school debaters at Lincoln would Indicate that the center of oratory In Nebraska Is gradually shifting. Tretty soon instead of the "Boy Orator of the Platte" we will be regaled by the "Boy Orator of Cut-Off Lake." They Can't Mtaa It. Detroit Free Press. There Is no use worrying over the Whereabouts of the Vladivostok fleet. If the Jap fall to find It, It will be the first thing belonging to Russia they have over looked. Tbe Retort Courteous. Washington Post. Prof. E. Benjamin Andrews expresses a regret that Uncoln was not more cul tured and refined. It Is also a matter of regret that some college professors do not have less culture and refinement and more horse sense of the Lincoln brand. Improving; Pohllo Morals. Baltimore American. The action of the Pennsylvania authori ties In putting on trial a woman just out of prison, charging her with conduct prejudicial to the morality of the com munity in attempting to coin her notoriety on the stage, will meet with the approba tion of all good and law-abiding citizens, and the heartfelt thanks of the friends of the drama. The Idea of regarding the stage as tfie natural resort of notoriety arising from offenses against social order or the law has been carried to extremes, which justify such Interference and which degrade 'the theater by such abuse of its purposes and ends. Foreign Born Americans broaa. Philadelphia. Press. Secretary Hay is doing a good work In negotiating treaties which provide that a naturalized citizen who returns to his na tive land and remains there for two years shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, There has been great trouble and expense Incurred by tho United States In attempting to protect foreigners who came hero only ' for tho purpose of retting naturalized, and then going back homo to live, claiming tho protection of the United States. , Under this new arrangement they could have that protection for two years after their return home, but no longer. That Is right. SERMONS BOILED DOWN. Selfishness Is the heart of sin. Tho fussy are never effective. ' Character la orystallzed, conduct. Obedience Is better than oblation. Mercies multiply as wo measure them. Only manufactured doubts are advertised. Nothing spoils the Ufa like living for the spoils. Giving happiness Is tho only secret of get ting It. Our victories depend on how w take our defeats. An unbridled tongue goes with an unbur dened brain. Sins of the Imagination are mora than Im aginary sins. There Is no delight for thoso who turn back from duty. A men's love for Ood may bo measured by his life for men. Tou can hardly expect to get fire out of a cold storage religion. A principle hung up on tho wall may be worse than none at all. Tho man who can smllo at a small trouble 'Will subduo a great one. Tho man who Is looking for a chanee to be grateful la never without one. With an uneducated heart there can never bo mora than a half educated head. It Is one thing to work up your sentiments and another to work out your salvation. Chicago Tribune. PERMNAI. AND OTHERWISE. It 1s reported In Boston that John L. Sul livan Is going blind. Well, the only Johnell has seen about everything. Signs ot spring havo appeared In Chicago. Suburban districts are overflowed and tbs Chicago river Is running both ways. The old Panama Canal commission man aged to disburse tho regular appropriation without tho bother of keeping books. Having secured a monopoly of the violet orop, tho Standard Oil peopla are enabled to toas a bouquet to everyone rushing the can. Tho government Is now building a run that wfll shoot thirty miles. ThU Is Just what Boston needs to disperse phantom fleets In ttmo of trouble. A Chicago student of social phenomena has reached tho conclusion that policemen need more exerolse In arid beats to keep their Imposing fronts within " respectable dimensions. Tbe anthracite barons are rental philan thropists. Just as the weather eases up a bit they chop off (0 cents a ton In tho prleo of coal, not on accoilnt of the consumer, but to give the Ico man a show. Tho managers of tho St. Louis fair on January 10 bad spent IH.7 Jo. and had contracts outstanding to raise tho total to tl4.683.53. These huge sums cover expendi tures on tho main buildings and grounds. The Missouri mule has been annexed to Imperial bouse of Morocco. Hitherto tbe kicking baa been monopolised by pugna cious opponents of tho royal machine. Re taliation by experts will vary the monotony. ' A New Tork City club composed of moth ers gSve reform a' great boost by electing as president a woman who Is tho mother of several children. Heretofore theoretical mothers gobbled up the offices and did all the talking A New York family possessed of scant faltb In banks and $1.0(0 In cash deposited the roll between tbe carpet and tho floor of tho home. Both homo aiul niuiiey were burned up. If tho coin had been thrown to tho birds there would remain at least a pleasant memory. SKCVLAH SHOTS AT TUB TlXPIT. . 14. ' k. Brooklyn tmcagr, beating preacher h '" J prnicMy re- Chicago ROcorn-tiern.n. wi mltm Fill tirwMj . . rtralnlS ""If. Tber. 1. no talk of lynch- ' Mlnnoapoll Jou.nal: rco hundred "'"VmsewTtoTr orTno 'S S-TtJSSS Tor rTl ems applicants are properly Identified It seems strange that such action .hould be re garded as sufficiently unusual to create remark. The wonder Is that ministers have ever failed to follow this rule. Philadelphia Record: Bishop afraid that the young men In tho Phila delphia Methodist Episcopal conference will crowd some of the veterans out of the more desirable assignments, and tney probably will. The world was a very com fortable one for the old men 3,000 " 4.000 years ago-say, about the period of Jod and still Is In Chin. But In the pro gressive part of the world length of days Is uot a strong claim upon consideration, or for preferment, and the churches can not afford to be loS kind and generous. They have their work p do. and they must get the beat men to do It, even though a senior Is occasionally displaced by a Junior. New York Tribune: "Wo shall not." said Bismarck, "go to Canossa." The strong boast was no doubt meant at tho time, and tho strong man who made It thought surely he would bo able to keep It. it was In .1872 that tho Jesuits were driven out of Germany, and It was In 1873 that the Falk laws were made. The next yeur saw six Prussian blshopa cast Into prison and 1.30 parish churches cloaed. But In 1879 'Falk resigned, Puttkammer succeeded him and Bismarck turned his face Canossaward. By 186 tho kullur- kampf was practically ended. In his own time and at the heltjht of his power Bis marck had reached Canossa. it has been reserved until now for the work to be completely done or undone. Tho stop that was first to bo taken Is tho last to be retraced. But it Is retraced at last, and tho Jesuits are free to return to Ger many. Portland Oregonlan: In a letter to Rev. George F. Bragg, a negro minister of Bal timore, Cardlnul Gibbons expresses him self as strongly opposed to th Jim Crow bills considered by tho Maryland legisla ture. His eminence says that peace und harmony cannot prevail where such un just discrlmlatlon prevails. He says that It is Injudicious to make a whole race suffer for the delinquencies of a few. The cardinal further says that it Is equally the duty of every member of a community to avoid any action which Is calculated to make 111 feelings and em bitter the lot of a less fortunate race. Cardinal Gibbons in this letter Is but true to the best traditions and practice of his church. African Hps may Join In the chants of the church under the proud dome of St. lVter's. A colored man In the dress of priest and student may pass beneath the portals of the College of the Propaganda at Rome, secure from sneers at his complexion or contempt for his society. "No Friends Like the Old Friends." They are our allies, our coadjutors, our best agents they help build us up. There would not be room in The Bee to publish one-half of the letters that King our praises. Listen, now, what one of our good friends for 20 years or more has to say: S. A. McWhorter Grain Commission 21$ Chamber of Commerce Omaha. - Neb. OMAIIA, NEB., March 19, 1904. Mr. II. D. Xeely, Manager, Equitable Life Assurance Society, 4 Omaha, Nebraska. Dear S'r: I have received your options of the settlement of my 20-Payment Life $5,000 Policy, No. 273,905, and the result is most satisfactory. I elect to retain the policy now fully paid up for $5,000 and draw surplus in cash, and also take an additional new policy with you for $5,000. This goes to prove, it seems to me, that I like the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Youra truly, S. A. McWHOBTER, "THE STRONGEST IN THE WORLD" THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OP TUB UNITED STATES HENRY B. HYDE. Founder. 120 BROADWAY. NEW YORK. JAMES W. ALEXANDER, Pres. JAMES H. HYDE Vice-Pros. H. D. NEELY, Mr. for Nebraska. Hsrehants Nitlonal Bank Builllnz, Wa HENRY BROWN. Cashier. S. R. ELSDN sal E. S. STRE8fE3. aas.-al Aits., Omaha. H. H. LOUQHR1DQE, Qnrl Art.. Lincoln. JOB KLEIN, Osnersl Agt, PUttsnoutb. Neb. ED B. JONES, Qsosral Aft., Hastings. Nsb. J. R. HOOVE, Qsnersl Aft. Wsyno, Neb. "The luxury of travel increases every day, bat it can nev er equal the luxury of staying at home"-and using nnr?fo)n JlJLblMl 111! 1 Nut, fG.OO, dandy for cooking. Lump, $6.50, for heaters. VICTOR WHITE COAL CO., 1605 Farnara. Tel. 127. DOMESTIC PMCASAHTIIIES. Miss Ol.lglrl-Wlil I marry tho man of mv choice? Fortune Teller Yes! Rut make no mla take; the rnrdg say you will havo but on choice. Puck. "It's only a flirtation, I suppfise." "Oh, d-ar. no. She's been looking up bit commercial rating." Chicago Tost. The chronic bachelor Anally turned to tho aulet man who bad taken no rart In tho Iscusslon. "Would you, sir.' he said, "marrv the best woman In the world. "I did," was tho reply. Ram s Horn. Pollv I'm tired of work. I believe I'll answer one of these millionaire husband 1 iill v Goodness; s'pose you got one with a long, straggly beard or red sldewhlak crs Indianapolis Journal. Mndffe Whv don't you accept him If bo offered to have his life Insured In your favor? . , , . linllv Because If he was a good risk for the company he vas a baa one for mo. Town Topics. "We agreed to treat oaoh other with perfect frankness." "How did It work?" , . . "Oh. I could stand her frankness; but she wouldn't stand mine." Detroit Free Tress. "Did young Mr. Rltchun refer to the sub ject of love and marriage?" asked her con fidential friend. "No." snld the Vassar girl. "H ho ha referred to it I should not havo lot him, ret away. He only allused to It. "-Chicago Tribune. A PRAYER. Though Jan and Russ shall meet In waV, And sheo their richest blood; Though greeil and seinsn passions nmi Their common brotherhood; Great God, by whose controlling hand Tho worlds thelr course run, Let peace shine o'er this smiling land, Kffulgent as tho sun. Though FVanco and Knglnnd, long at peace. Tlielr friendliness forego; Though hurniony between them cease. And blood like water flow; Aimlghtv God, be Thou our guide. Our eviry set control; Let trface and happiness betide. While war clouds onward roll. Though German legions take tho field. Bedecked In war's nrray; Though peace to blood and carnage yield. And crimson fields portray; Infinite Mind, who knows our thought. Who reads our Inmost heart. Bring warring elements to naught A love of pence Impart Though Chinese, like the yellow blight. Shall devastate and slay; And, breaking every rule of right. No neutral laws obey; Great God. mav we possess tho power To keep thy righteous laws. And on.lv In oppression's hour Mako war for freedom's cause. Though Armenians suffer wrong, And Hebrews bl"ed and die; F.-otm T'srln's cruel arm, and stror.g, Poland for succor crvn T t-nai God, led bv Thine arm TH land shall ever be A helter from pprer.slon's harm Home of tho brave and free. Thouch cannon's ronr. snd clash of arms. And msrtl-1 trend resound: T"M'fh battle's din. snd wsr's alarms, ThroiiKhout the world Is fovnd; Hf Thou a 'mp to light our feet, Till that blest day annears, "Whn men their swords to plowshares pruning bonks, fhelr spears. 0 North Platte, Neb. R. H. LANGFORD. rn l 9 i
