THE OMAHA' DAILf BEE: SUNDAY, JJTSE 19, . 1904.
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All the roads now lead to Chicago.
The Bee Is &3 years young today. We
accept congratulations.
. .
A Chicago physician Is said to bare
loot his way and temper in the World's
Fair city. Served dim tight
Fortunately for the Omaha public
schools, the controversy over the legacy
tsoxa Milwaukee Is a closed Incident
The railroad tax agents have earned
their vacations as well as. their salaries.
They may now proceed to the summer
resorts.
The first real battle of the Japanese
and Russian armies Is yet to be fought
All the engagements up to date are mere
. skirmishes. ,
The man who accepts the nomination
for rice president at Chicago will have
a lard time. to look fearless and bold
,when lie meets "Uncle Joe" Cannon.
The problems of the future have all
been solved by the graduating class of
the high school. It only remains for
rrovldence to carry Out the program.
Blnce Its delegation of "lily-whites"
has been turned down by the republican
rational committee it may be safe to
plue Louisiana tn the democratic col
umtM In declaring against the candidacy of
Judge Gray of Delaware Mr. Bryan has
given Parker delegates a, tip on how to
vote should their candidate be forced out
of the contest '
William K. -Vanderbllt la creating a
sensation In Switzerland, but ' not as
much as "Reggie" would create should
he Introduce himself to police headquar
ter In New 1 York.
In their studies of natural history at
St Louis the members of the Jacksonlan
club may expect to And the St Louis
"kitty" even niore' ferocious and hungry
tliau the variety kept at home. -
Now that the State Railroad Assess-'
tnent board has adjourned, we may con
fidently look for a marked Increase In
railroad earnings and a decided rise In
railroad stocks In the netfuture
- Nebraska may not get the vice presi
dency, but she will have the satisfaction
of being accorded five or more assistant
sergeants a t-anna to keep order In the
convention ball. What more do you
.want? 1
i
Not to be stopped from seeing a race
at ' Chicago with more than one entry
delegates to the republican national con
vention who arrived there 'yesterday
quit talking politics and went to the
Derby.
There Is really some ground for fear
of the "yellow peril" after all. The son
of .former Chfbese Minister Wu has
taken honors at the Atlantic City high
school over thirty-five American bcys
and girls.
The Wisconsin "stalwarts," headed by
Senator Spooner, have been awarded
prima facie recognition by the. repub
, llcun x national committee. . The unex
pelted does not happen as often as the
expected.
Secretary Sbaw says that he did not
Intend to reflect upon the methods of
the exposition management when he
said the fair should be more widely ad
vertised. May be he simply Intended to
give the' show greater publicity, and he
surely succeeded if that was his object.
t-?q . j
Kusslung say .that Japanese soldiers
have mutilated the dead at Vafangow
and a protest will be made. Japan also
threatens to protuist against the use of a
Japanese flag by the Kuttblans, all of
which would ludlcute that the people of
both counUlua are warming up to. the
fight
A TBfKD VT A CKBTURT.
Thirty-three years ago this day The
Omaha Bee made Its advent Into the
arena of American Journalism. During
its strenuous career, spanning a third of
a century, marvelous changes have
taken place In the commercial, indus
trial, political and social conditions of
the city of its birth. During those
thirty-three years It has -witnessed the
growth of Omaha from a struggling
town of 15,000 population to one of the
grat commercial centers and industrial
emporiums of the valley of the Missis
sippi. It has also witnessed the develop
ment of the state that had been only a
few years previously designated on the
map as the Great American desert into
one of the most fertile, wealthy and pop
ulous commonwealths in the. American
union.
In this evolution The Bee has not been
an idle spectator or drone, but a most In
dustrious worker and potent factor.
Without Idle boasting The Bee can
truthfully claim to occupy front rank
among the forces and agencies that have
contributed toward- the making of
Omaha and Nebraska, as well as the
section contributory to this city what
they are today. Within these thirty
three years The Bee has stimulated and
supported every Important enterprise
that promised to promote the material
welfare of Nebraska and especially that
of Nebraska's commercial metropolis,
and Its contributions toward the up
building of this city have not been
merely empty phrases and cheap advice,
but monumental structures that have af
forded employment to labor and distrib
uted hundreds of thousands' of dollars
among manufacturers and merchants.
Within this thirty-three years the aggre
gate money expended among wage work
ers employed In its production haa ex
ceeded $3,000,000, but the money 'ex
pended for labor and material In the up
building of Omaha counts a nothing
when compared with the standing adver
tisement to Omaha's greatness furnished
by the metropolitan standard of Journal
ism and the reputation as one of the
greatest newspapers in America which
The Bee has established and maintained
for itself.
Last but not least The Bee has ren
dered Invaluable, service to Omaha and
Nebraska in its fearless championship of
honest government its relentless opposi
tion to corruption in publfc office and its
unyielding opposition to the aggression
of corporate monopoly. For thirty
three years, In season and out of season,
The Bee has stood for Omaha and Ne
braska, and it has never been more
thoroughly entrenched In the hearts of
the people thap it is today. t
WB ARK AJUKRICAB.
What la the proper designation of a
citizen of the United States? In every
country of the civilized world he; Is
called an American and he everywhere
regards himself as an American. , . Go
where be will he la so hailed and so
expects to be. He is ot ordinarily
called a citizen of the Doited States, al
though that Is a very proper and abso
lutely correct deslgpatlon, but be is
everywhere spoken of as an American,
which simply means that he la a citizen
of the United States. ''
la that sufficient? In the opinion of
he Department of State that needs to
be corrected so far as the designation
of our diplomatic representatives abroad
are concerned and therefore it has Is
sued an order that requires that our
diplomatic representatives abroad shall
substitute "American" for "United
States" In their official 'documents.
We, observe that this Idea of the De
partment of- State la very generally ap
proved of, and yet It is a departure about
which there may be some debate.
'. For example, the constitution of the
United States starts out with a' propo
sition which It would seem - ought to
have some consideration when It cornea
to changing the name of the republic.
Establishing the rale that our ambas
sadors, ministers and consuls shall call
themselves "Americans" la all ,very
well In the abstract but it Is a question
able proposition when It comes to a de
parture from a long-established prin
ciple which is sacred to a majority of
the Americas people. ' . t
ovu xayal btrmuqtb.
In an address before the Franklin In
stitute of Philadelphia a few days ago.
Rear Admiral Melville discussed the
naval strength of the United States,
pointing out that It represents more than
our number of battleships, built' and
building. He said that the present or
ganization 6f the Navy department is
a remarkably strong and able one and
that the victories pf our navy were the
outcome of the workings of that splen
did system. He expressed the opinion
that the navy and nation should be slow
to give up an organization that la ao
simple that its detail work can be com
prehended within a few weeks by every
executive administrator upon assuming
office.
Rear Admiral Melville said that our
continental rivals are ready to acknowl
edge that we are upon an equality with
them as regards the penetrative quality
of our armament and the character of
our personnel, yet by reason of our
weakness in the number of trained men
and of our lack of supply of modern
guns it is maintained abroad that we
are .really behind Germany In these re
spects. While be did not concede the
justice of this foreign view. Rear Ad
miral Melville still contended that our
navy is not as strong as it should be
and said that the Increase should be
progressive. "It may be," be said, "that
this nation will be free from war for
many years, but where a nation asserts
certain doctrines that Interfere with the
colonization projects or commercial
rights of rival powers, the maintenance
of such doctrine can only be at times
by force of anna." He thought that
force of circumstances will compel us
to assert a paramount right in the West
Indies and the north Pacific and that
"we must either build a navy capable
of maintaining this claim or else, sacri
fice foreign trade that is a necessity to
the disposal of our surplus agricultural
and manufactured products."
It la not to be doubted that this is
the view quite generally entertained In
naval circles and while popular sehtl
ment may not wholly favor It yet there
is no doubt that the opinion very ex
tenslvely prevails that the United States
cannot wisely abandon the policy of in
creasing ita sea power. It Is not neces
sary that we should In this respect enter
into rivalry with other maritime nations,
but it is manifestly desirable that we
shall not fall Into the rear of all of
them In the matter of naval strength.
We do not need a navy for aggressive
purposes, but we do need one that will
be capable not only ' for defense but
also for the safeguarding of our rights
and interest throughout the world.
RUSSIA'S TRAX8PORTATIUM rBOBLtU
Tne Russian government la - contem
plating a reinforcement of Its army In
Manchuria to the extent of half a .mil
lion men. Indeed the czar has given
out according to reports from the Rus
slan capital, that If necessary he will
send a million men into the far east
There is no doubt that he means thla
and that an effort will be made to put a
very much larger body of troops Into the
war area than la now there. Russia real
lzes that unless this is done her bold upon
Manchuria la absolutely lost and more
than this that her power In Asia will be
utterly destroyed. The recognition of this,
obvious to the world, will of necessity
spur Russia to the employment of every
resource at her command to at least
hold her own In the far east
But she la confronted1 by a problem
of transportation that Is far more seri
ous than that of raising armies. It is
not a difficult matter for the Russian
government to put a few hundred thou
sand men into the field. All it has to
do la to Issue, an order for the conscrip
tion of a certain number of soldiers
and as soon as It Is possible to get them
together they can be concentrated In
camps and subjected to the process'of
making them soldiers. The matter of
taking these soldiers several thousand
miles and feeding them Is another prop
osition of a very different nature.
Tills matter of transportation Is one
of the serious questions that is confront
ing the Russian government and It has
a very decided bearing upon the war.
It is all very well to talk about sending
a million troops to the far east but
how are they to be got there? Accord
lng to an authentic estimate of the facll
ltlea of the Siberian railroad for supply
lng reinforcements and food to the army
In Manchuria it is not possible to carry
Into the theater of war more than a fejw
thousands troops a day and only suffi
cient supplies to provide for even the
small force that can be convened from
day to day. A newspaper correspond
ent in the far east points out that it Is
absolutely Impossible foj the' Russians
to send reinforcements over the Siberian
railroad- to the number. of more than
2,000 or' 8,000 a day and that even at
this rate there will be difficulty in pro
viding f or'.them.
This Is the perplexing trouble, Im
mensely costly, with' which the Russian
government is contending. There is an
Immense military force available, ' but
it must be transported over thousands
of mile and must be "fed. It Is a com
paratively easy matter to' feed a million
of soldiers in Russia, but one-third of
that number of men on foreign, soil,
where the supplies have to be shipped
to them, 1s a very different proposition
and this is the difficulty that Russia has
to meet In the 'far east Thus far It
has not given her very much trouble, but
the difficulty la growing and will un
doubtedly make Itself very manifest
within the near future, especially if the
Japanese should continue their suc
cesses. ' i
MTB1CM- OF TWU MEDICAL CODK.
By what should bills for professional
services rendered by medical practition
ers be gauged? Should the same service
always command fhe same remunera
tion, or should the charge be adjusted
to the patron's pocketbook on a sliding
scale? What constitutes an excessive
fee and what a. reasonable one? Is It
the service rendered or the skill and
reputation of the physician, or the
wealth or the poverty of the patient that
should be the determining factor In fix
ing the price?
These are some of the pertinent or
perhaps impertinent questions precipi
tated Into discussion by the recent ruling
of the supreme court of Missouri, re
versing a verdict for f 12,000 as excessive
in a case where a physician had ued
for $30,000.. In this particular case the
plaintiff admitted that the annual In
come of. his practice aggregated only
about $10,000, and while be had gone
from St Louis to New York to care for
the patient he had' chalked the time up
at the rate of $100,000 a year. It seems
also that the patient must have died,
although that la not quite clear, but the
young man's father was rich and th
physician thought he could stand It
Just what considerations led the court
to declare the $12,000 verdict excessive
may never be disclosed, yet the layman
la at liberty to speculate upon the ele
ments that enter Into the value of pro
fessional services. It Is Just possible
the judges may have been up against
doctors' bills themselves and have concluded-that
they now hadsa chance to
get even with someone. The wonder is
that some enterprising syndicate pro
moter has not yet started a medical de
partment store where professional serv
ices would ' be sold like dry goods or
groceries, with uniform price labels at
tached. A millionaire could hen get a
bargain as well as the pauper by watch
ing his chance to get tick on special
days.
The rule of a successful business man
is one price to all marked in plain fig
ures, but the rule established by the
medical code' seems to be that of charg
ing what the traffic will bear, the only
limit being to get the maximum Income
without stopping the source of supply.
If it is not worth more to re
store health to a man earning $50,
000 a year than to restore health
to a man earning $500 a year, even
though they suffer the same disease and
the first requires no more attention or
skill than the second, there would be no
advantage In classing medical science
among the professions. Advice, whether
legal," medical or spiritual, haa neither
market quotations nOr tax assessor's ap
praisement As a result we are ail left
at the mercy of the old economic law of
supply and demand to keep the doctors'
bills within bounds with an oc"cas!onal
appeal to a court of justice to operate
as a safety valve.
In his recent talk on practical politics
before the Yale law school students Sen
ator DepSw startled his audience By ad
vising young men not to seek public
office until they had acquired a compe
tence or a self-sustaining business. Ac
cording to Senator Depew the greatest
misfortune that can happen to a young
man that has only character and educa
tion and noncapital is to accept office,
and his saddest experience bad .been to
try and find places for men of great
ability who had been thrown out of office
by changes of politics at a time of life
when they could find nothing else to do.
With his ripe experience garnered dur
ing nearly half a century of public life
Cbauncey Depew certainly Is in position
to express an opinion that should carry
weight It is exceedingly doubtful, how
ever, whether his sound advice will be
heeded by the vast majority of young
men whose ambition for public life out
weighs all the arguments that may be
advanced in opposition. One reason,
however, why honest young men who
enter public life cannot earn a compe
tence and remain honest Is because of
their disinclination to emulate the ex
ample of other honest young men who
are employed in commercial and indus
trial concerns who are willing to live
within their incomes.
Coming events cast their shadows be
fore. This applies strikingly to the pro
posed negro presidential convention, to
be held at St Louis, July 6. Its purpose
is to nominate a colored candidate for
the presidency and to make a fight for
him in New York, Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Indiana and Illinois, with the
manifest view of diverting a sufficient
number of negro voters from Roosevelt
to make those states debatable and, if
possible, to carry them for the demo
cratic national candidates. Leslie's
Weekly characterizes this scheme as a
"shabby piece of work, worthy 5l its
originators, who propose to make a side
show of the democratic national conven
tion," which convenes at St Louis on
the same day. We apprehend, however,
that the average negro voter knows a
hawk from a handsaw. He is intelligent
enough not to be duped into throwing
away his vote In a national campaign
year, particularly n states where it
would count against the party that has
labored for his emancipation and ele
vation and secured for him the political
rights which be enjoys.
What's the matter with the boys who
are attending public school nowadays
that all four of the honor marks for
proficiency In the graduating class of
the Omaha High school should be
scooped up by the girls? Are the boys
falling down or are the girls slmpiy
moving forward faster than the boys?
Surely the boys will sot concede Intel
lectual superiority to the girls then the
cause must be looked for outside In too
much military drill, too many athletic
diversions, too little study and too much
laziness. Boys, wake up and strike a
twentieth century gait
The automobile ordinance is defective
In one particular In which It should be
promptly amended. It should require
applications for licenses takes out by
foreign auto companies to be made in
the name ot a resident agent or repre
sentative, whoxcould be held for penal
ties or damages for Infraction of the
regulations. Absentee ownership should
not be allowed to constitute exemption
from responsibility.
A lot of building projects for Omaha
are being held in .abeyance. If not indefi
nitely postponed, because of Inability
to getwhat are considered reasonable
bids from responsible contractors. Build
ing ought to be done as cheaply here
aa in any of the surrounding cities and
towns, except possibly for a slight In
crease en the labor account
While the National Association of
Newspaper Circulation affidavit swear
ers waa holding ita convention at To
ronto, the Omaha fakir who procured
advertisements from gullible merchants
on a guaranteed circulation of 250,000,
of which less than (50.000 are said to
have been printed, found it more Con
genial to stay at home.
Ae SeeST at Yoatk.
Minneapolis Times.
Nebraska, and Kansas ar fifty years old
this summer and hava mors speeches to
show for their half century than soma
states have produced tn a whola on.
' Baal of Much F"m.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Judo- Miller of Mississippi thinks that
high 'wages oaua idUnesa beoaus they
give th recipient a chance to bo Idle. On
the advantages of being on ta nncn
that you can bav need paid to any old
opinion. ,
Look to fVor Bill.
Washington Post.
Th new S100 counterfeit bill has a very
poor picture of Thomas Hart Benton.
Tour familiarity with Mr. Benton's portrait
on good $100 bills should enable you to de
tect th counterfeit without to aid of
glasses.
,' Tkt Two MeKlaley.
' Pprtngfleld Republican.
Th 1st Abner McKlnley bor a singular
resemblanc to hi brother, th president
His fac was a harder, roor roughly cut
model after th earn pattern. Natur
varlua human eoununanc aa she varus
th leave en a trse. Tout with a slgnlncanc
m every difference sucn as aoes n pnm
to th nirnwM nfflr of th leaf. Abner
McKlnleT' head and restore ' fitted hi
Ufa's leaser 'amplitude.
War HIM Ml.
New Tork Bun.
"What Is needed In a political campaign.
I not a douche, but gunpowder. Th lat
ter commodity Mr. Hltt does not keep m
stock. Moreover, he would labor under th
disability of needing to b Introduced to
many of his own constituents. Under th
circumstance-, we Imagln that our wide
awake chief magistrate would say to him
"Hltt,, I lov you, but jrou cannot start
a prairie Are."
, The America Iavaaloa.
Philadelphia Pres. '
Th Spaniard ar not feeling so bitter
towards th United States a to overtook
the lower rate offered In this country on
trucks and other such things for us on
electric traction systems. A Philadelphia
firm haa lust made a contract to supply
those thing to a Una In Barcelona, and
anothsr contract was mad by th sam
arm with a company In Oporto, Portugal,
"Sow Tsa're Talklaa."
Phlladelnhla Record.
riii,. miin, wnmen are. on th avertg.
both taller and heavier than th young
women of twenty year ago. uur soiaier.
are heavier and taller than tho of any
' nation except th Russians. It may do aa
m It ted that there Is a tendency In Amerl
can families to fewer children and a lea
eneA birth rate, but it is a mtstak
to
attempt to account for such results by
showing that they are a consequence ot
tnn much als-ebra and too little absorption
of phosphates. Th girls ar all right and
getting liner and fairer as tne oays go oy
Blake Way for the Procession.
Cleveland Leader.
Juno la the month of brides. God bless
theml with a large share of th blessing
reserved for the groom aa well. io every
couple lately assuming residence In th
holy stat of matrimony we can wish no
greater guerdon than enduring lov. xno
enthusiasm of haDDlness will not last;
calm content, engendered by klndrednes
of soul, is a better and mors valuable as
set Thank God that desplt th preva
lent of the nroblem play, the erotic novel
and th divorce attorney, marriage haa not
been on whit unpopularlieo among sensi
ble people, nor haa the potency of lov
lost a single grain of gold.
OBLIGATIONS TO THE DOCTORS.
wMot Progressive of th Learned Pro
fessions" Sainted.
Philadelphia Record.
Th American Medical association's an
nual convention in Atlantic City brought
together the largest number of eminent
physician and surgeons who ar In th
habit of aHsemlglng for professional ad
vantage, combined with a little recreation.
Tho occasion Invites acknowledgment of
the enormous obligations of society to the
profession one which In tho vary nature of
the case la the most progressive of all th
learned professions, and which, for that
reason, reflects more perfectly than any
other the Intellectual progress of th age.
Divinity and law progress, yt they ar In
evitably moored to ancient revelation and
to irecedente and established principles.
Medicine and surgery are as progressive aa
pure selenca, with several, 7 of whoso
branches -they ar most intimately con
nected. So rapid Is the growth of knowl
edge, and so oonstant th change of
method in the healing art that a dis
tinguished doctor who was consulted about
the revision of a professional library gave
th short and" comprehensive prescription
to throw away every book mor than, ten
years old. ,
There ar still living persons who can re
member when surgery ventured little be
yond amputations, and "saw-bones" was
not a very misleading piece of slang. Now
the wonders of abdominal surgery follow
so fast upon each other as to exclt little
astonishment, and even an Injured heart
has been repaired. Medicine has suffered
somewhat In, popular estimation from th
greater wonders, of th knife, though un
justly. , Diseases that were hopeless ar
now considered hardly serious; epidemics
ar stayed; sanitation is making illness
rather a fault than a misfortune; preven
tive medicin Is taking th place of the
curative; th voice of Rachel weeping for
her children Is not heard as it was a cen
tury ago, and a material addition has been
mad to th average of human life. In
spit ot th strain f modern life, of which
so much is heard, there la little doubt that
the period of man's activity haa been con
siderably prolonged. W may still lest
about detors, as of everything, but we are
under great and growing obligations to
them.
COMBINING ALL TUB MINES.
MapoUalas of Natnr' Storahoaso
Grow Apsee.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Such a story aa 4hat which la told of
th absorption of all th metal mine of
th country by a Rockefeller combination
must arus ranswad Interest In the dis
cussion of monopoly. Whether It la a
tru stry r not It oertalnly doe not deal
with th Impossible. Mr. Rockefeller Is
already at th had of on oorporation
whlok dominates th oil bullae of th
uniiea states and yields him million an
nually. U waa known to b so hoavlly
Interested in mining properties befor the
present story waa published that hi
waalth was greatly augmented from this
ouro. He haa tremendous Investments!
Mm ,Mm m m. hwmwi wuwh companies,
which are yielding him larg return, and
through thm a profitable connection la s-
tabttshed between th related Industrie
In which he Is engaged. Bteel, oal and
iron ar, all' In trust-Ilk proportions, con
tribute to swell his incam to- such six
that every year's reoelpta would b as
teemed a great capital evan by rich men.
Suppose now that th organising genius,
with th steady accretion of million,
should be tursed to th acquisition ot th
precious metals at first hand. Means would
aslly b found to puroha any property
that waa wanted, and if Mr. Rockefeller
should nter th field as a prospector his
system would captur that branch of the
mining business. He might leav th Chi
nes to work th beds of deserted stream
for a profit of 60 cents a day, but he
would 111 en all th unclaimed quarts
ledge through th aklllful disposition of
aa army if experts, dredge rivers with
modern machinery, or defleot them from
their courses If need war.
Thla tendency to monopoly might be re
garded also as in sOra senses only a nat
ural development from existing oondltlona
Th era of mining by great corporations U
already far advanoed; suuii chance as
were opea to th man with hovl and pick
in I860 have disappeared. Capital la th
principal beneficiary of tho mining lands.
A great combination would merely perfect
what is partly accomplished, and at th
sam tlm It would be In accerd with th
method that hav prevailed In other in
dustrlea.
But what la all this monopolising of
nature's storehouse going to lead toT
Wher will th vast power that la now be
ing acquired by a few Individual b lodged
finally? Certainly If th combination en
dure there 1 a still greater oombinatloa
that must hav something very decisive to
say as to th way in which th power may
PERSONAL AND OTTTERWISH.
Boocena Sokop is on of the latest ar
rival from th old world. Mr. Sokup Is a
rip member of a distinguished family, and
will not be lonesome if he live up to hi
nam.
Kuropatkln comes next for a dressing.
Unci Russell Sag doesn't Ilk vacations.
That's on reason why Rusa has an abund
ance of th coin. But what a lot of fuft
he haa missed.
A St Louis Judge flouts th Idea that
doctor may gauge their bill by the
wealth of the patient Doctors must un
derstand that they cannot appropriate
without protest on of th tradition ot th
legal profession.
The only marked observanoe of flag day
in New Tork City was in th foreign so
tlons. Pilgrims from th old world, as a
rule, show keener appreciation of liberty
than th natlva because they hav lived
under and felt th blight ot monVrchy.
Sir Mortimer Durand, the British am
bassador, waa Introduced to a Virginia
mint Julep the other day. Draining the
glass with every Indication of rapture,'' ha
gavs expression to this brilliant perora
tion. . "A capital drink that; 1 11 take
another." Diplomatic tact la a wonderful
accomplishment when rightly stimulated.
Mlttened bachelors ar given hopeful en
couragement by a brav gallant at Ply
mouth, Pa, who haa entered suit for 15,000
for breach of promise. A, heartless girl
threw him over after he had given her a
diamond ring and a good time. It is about
time to show the giddy that tru hearts,
though broken, can rend a shirtwaist for
burnt .coin. .
Pessimists who rail about llbcrQea lost
evidently do not keep tap on th'sal with
which courts uphold and defend th real
thing. A Jersey judge decides that a girl
has a perfect right to ait on th lap of her
best fellow; a New Tork Judge hold that
snoring in church Is an Inalienable right;
a Pennsylvania Solomon affirm that a
father of a girl has a right to throw her
steady out of doors If he hangs around
after 11 p. tn., and a mid-west judge de
crees that a man doe not have to have
his mother-in-law in the house. No mat
ter what politicians may do, liberty will
thrive in spots while Judges live.
RIOT OF ANCESTRY FADS.
Organisation Fllmslly FouadeoT by
Flimsy People.
Collier's Weekly.
Patriotism Is a treble emotion which lends
Itself .easily to the ridiculous. A Boston
woman has carried th fad for ancestry
societies to its legitimate conclusion' by
heading a movement to consolidate the
grandchildren of the war veterans of 18614.
Her society should hava at least th merit
of voluminous enrollment. It haa already
led to suggestions for aunts of the heroes
uf San Juan hill, brothers-in-law of con
scripts of the' 60s, and first cousins one
removed of Filipino exterminators. Any
thing which is snobbery masquerading as
historic interest or patriotism deserves bur
lesque. Patriotism, according to Dr. Jon
son, Is the last refuge ot a scoundrel. So
cially It Is rather th last refuge of a fool.
Perhaps wa can get beyond the war, and
organic all th relatives of Carnegie
heroes. A herolo race need no hero fund.
A race of patriots needs no patriotic gos
sip parties. Historical societies should be
composed of historians. Snobbishness,
pedantry and their kindred vloes consist
in putting aa over emphasis on som on
possession or distinction, . and the smaller
the trait celebrated the pettier th vie.
Pedantry, which 1 th vanity of knowl
edge. Is therefor a step or two above
snobbishness, which Is th vanity f class.
The, singular fertility, shown by th
genealogy societies In devices for making
themselves ridiculous Is to be explained
by th absurdity of th motives on which
they are founded.' Lavlnla I, queen of th
Holland dames, and her theatrical career
were a natural outcome of the pseudo
patriotlp movement. In organisations
fllmslly founded, flimsy people get to the
top. The Boston woman and her new
burlesque will be well employed if they
hasten the end of queens, daughters and
dames. Our librarians are kept busy fur
nishing books to women who wish to dig
up remote ancestry for social glamor.
EDUCATION AND ROMANCE.
Sentimental Attachment Are Rndely
Shatter by Realltl,
. Chicago Chronicle.
That co-education discourages matri
mony la th solemn conviction of the pres
ident of a Boston co-educational institu
tion, and th theory la not without th sup
port of logto and the evidanc of experi
ence.
The aenttmantal attachments of , youth
ar founded largely on idealisation of
character, which a mingling of the sexes
tends to destroy. While some philosophers
argue that all sentiment Is the result of
contiguity, it Is also tru that contiguity
often results In the degree of familiarity
that breeds contempt.,
Th maiden who la devoted to study has
little time for love-making, and besides
the knowledge of man and affair she ac
quires in a college course dispels many
illusion concerning th masculine sex and
enable her to penetrat th thin veil of
romanoe and discern th stern realities
that lie behind It
It is recorded that a well known heir
was once cured of an Infatuation for a
celebrity who approximated Apollo pn see
ing him din heavily upon corned bef and
cabbage. Doubtless many a -college ro
mance haa ben destroyed by lncldant of a
trivial character which revealed th ob
ject of affeotion as a person with the appe
tites and desires of an ordinary human
being.
Although much might be said to support
th learned and solemn college president
on this subject hi contention la extremely
weak In on particular: A large majority
ot oolleg girls continue to fgll In love and
to marry.
Home
Made!
Deer,
lan't'
Nearly?
s Mm
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.
Only the kiartlass are hopoloas.
Fruit la th best testimony as to root
When lov labor It nds n evrsr.
Gratltud for yesterday gtvs grac for
today.
Ther la no Joy gained axcept wher Joy
is given.
Ther is n reverence without reality In
religion.
It take mor thaa a bulldog to make an
re hard.
Creed without Christ Is a oompas with
out a needle.
A Just man never fear a to th Justlc
of hi Father.
Th lb counts for little that always
count th cost
A man's suorasa depends on what he does
with his failure.
Saving- souls by sentiment Is Ilk feeding
men on a flavor.
The opportunity Is always ripe for the
man who I ready.
The man with th biggest check may
hav the least baggaga
The ascent of man la th result of the
descent f th Son of man.
It Is asy to backslid If yea enly hold
your neighbor by tw fingers.
Th ofTens of the faithful la not neces
sarily th defense of the faith.
Ther I no advertisement sin Hke better
than a half-hearted denunciation.
It Is a good thing to lose your feno If It
mean th enlarging f your field.
When a man feels sorry far himself no
on ls la going te wast time doing It for
htm. Chicago Tribune.
SECULAR SHOTS AT TI1S FULPTT.
V Chicago R word-Herald: At KnlgHtsvUlu,
Ind, the other night a Methodist preacher
pened a club dane with prayer. Well, a
little prayer Isn't likely to hurt any dance.
Baltimore American: Too much car can
not be exercised in 'turning out th men
who are to minister to th need of th In
valids of th future. Instead f taking
fEelr own lives In their fcanda tkv tab.
the lives of others into their hands, which
members should be exceedingly competent
and in control of well trained and well in
formed brains. .
Chicago Inter Ocean: Th pastor of a
New York church haa declared' that h
doe not care how his congregation la at-
tired so long aa he haa a congregation. He
therefor Invites the member f his flock
to attend services In th most hprafortable
ature tney have." Thla la sensible warm
weather, church going ad vies, but is any
exception mad to th now funnm n.ir.
aloo waist which, while declared comfort
able by manv fair ehnntknun
theless been denounced from th pulpit?
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
He I am marrying her for her money.
K h A Ulit trinnAV ma 1 , .
"" mw wnms iCOU 10
happiness.
search." Town Topic. ;
'Well, welt ther goes Mis Strong.
When 1 saw her last she was posing aa a
bachelor girt. That's her hobby."
"All that' changed now. She dropped
that hobby fr a bubby.' Philadelphia,
Press. ,
'Just because a Frennhmsn aM that
Truth is naked," said she, sweetly, a he
came home after midnight "it la not tiec-
wmtj io put so many ciouies upon her
that sh cannot ba recoa-nlced at nil "
Brooklyn Life.
"I would kiss you," said th youth, "but
alas, I've been eating onions." -
Don t mind that" lauahed the miUm
"W had Umbura-er for aurior." riHvoJanrl
Plain Dealer.
First Citizen Aren't you drinkihsr a llttla
mor-than usual T
Second Citizen Tea: mr wtfa haa a sviM
in her head and can't small a hlama thin v
Albany Journal.
"1 KM Kmirnnatlrln. In a. A!anotli 4a Of'
Petersburg, says he's 'In touch with the
Japs.' I wonder what he means by that."
Well, once when I mllMl tn. aa a aHi
whose parents object ed to me I aot In
touch with her father. Perhana thla la 4h.
same thing." Philadelphia Pros.
Mrs. Caudle Tou used to u that vn
could eat me."
Caudle That was when I thought ,n
would agree with me. Cleveland Plain i
Dealer.
Mrs. Jenner Lee Ondesxt How da von
get the smell of tobacco out of your lacs
curtains?
Mra Seldom-Home Th only sure proc-
x a.uuw pi is a ivorcv nicago in
built. I
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SERMOlfS BT PHONOGRAPH,
JamesBaxton Adams In Denver Post
A long felt want it fills. If you but please;
A yawning want that gaped for centuries.
Th preaching phonograph I Ah! happy
It renders easier our Christian lot! '
No longer need you alt In restless snoos
In atlff-oacked, hard, unomfortabl pews.
No longer rise on restful Sabbath morn
And dress from Adam' appl down to corn,
You wake aiA stretch, and mayhap grunt
and yawn.
And press th button and the sermon's on.
Than II and listen to th spoken word
Your preacher voice la at your bdald
heard I
Ripe eloquence, of painful gesture shorn,'
Comes flowing to you through th polislisd
horn.
By mechanism you ar led aright
Toward th rualma of navar-fadlng light
And if through foro of Christian habit yott
Grow drowsy, as if sitting In year pew. .
And to th land of slumber enter la i
There's a n ther to prod you with a
pin.
'.
No wlf Is thar to plnoh you till you're
' or
At fir at faint premonition of a snore.
With faithful
Drec-ar
bands th morn-meal sh
While you'ra at ehuroh
stair. t
in ooy bed up
The preaching phonograph!
Long may. It
pin
To lead th fuktwarm from th paths of
In.:
To anatch from off Iniquity'' vile perch
Th lazy one who will- not dress for
church. - j.
Deborah is the best
because it is made of pure mineral water
becanse the right thln'ra nr re 'o it , ,
because we know how to make It
EBQMia
-. Hav you ever noticed , the difference "
between horn root-beer and Deborah Root
BeerT Deborah not only taste better,
but 1 better. It' our business to make
Root-Beer all th tlm w hav mads
It a study and know bow.
"Tbs Root Beer that tastes like mm re."
Deboraft Mineral Springs
Council filaffd Iowa.