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Judge rarker's front porch gives no
signs of being worn out
It begins to look on if Ivansas City
and Pueblo wera contenting for the
train-wrecking championship.
Turn about Is fair play. Japanese are
now beginning to send out estimate of
Russian losses -while saying nothing of
their own.
HalsouU's threat to go ou the warpath
again permits us to read betweeu the
lines that Ion PerdleurU' lecture must
be about due.
It's an even chanco whether the av
rngft American render opens his paper
at the sporting pnge or turns to the war
news first these days.
If Russia persists in opening malls
add reused to Unci Sam's sailors that
Baltic squadron may have a good ex
cuse for not starting to Tort Arthur.
Throe former adjutants general of the
state of Nebraska have been found short
lu their accounts. Evidently bookkeep
ing is not oiio of the usual qualifications
of a soldier.
The Alaskan gold output for the year
is estimated at more than $25,000,000.
It is not In It, however, with Nebraska's
wheat output, to say nothing of Ne
braska com.
The rullman company has Just de
clared Its usual dividend. The treasury
of the Pullman porter ought also to
show up a neat surplus when its bal
ance Is struck.
Father Schell may be removed from
the Winnebago reservation, but the tes
timony given by the Indians In support
of bis charges will bo hard for the gang
to explain away.
Connecticut celebrated its day at the
World's fair last wtvk, but for some
unexplained and inexplicable reason the
official reports fnll to make mention of
any wooden nutmegs lu th foreground.
, Since Cass county farmers have or
ganized an antl-horsethief society, the
historic ttv near "Eight Mile (Jrove"
must be wondering whether it Is again
to take a prominent part in current
events.
'I J. U J. !.'
The Moroccan government has prohib
ited the transportation. of foodstuffs and
It is believed un Insurrection Js threat
ened. Uut the traffic In prisoners held
for ransom will probably continue un
molested, '
Major Caniugton, former head of the
Phllipplno scouts, has been arrested on
chnrce of fulMlfvIni his nav urnnmt
i I , '
' Another evldchce of the attempt of the
present administration to turn the ras
cals out of office.
Omaha cures less whether the city
electrician has been arbitrary in tlw
matter of issuing licenses to applicants
than it does about the proposed udvuuce
In Insurance rates should Lis ivcom
niendatlons not be carried out.
It Is now announced that Judge Tar
ker will form a partnership with Shee
han and IIIil in the pructlce of law at
New York in case he is defeated. It Is
a wise democratic candidate who makes
provisions In advance for deft at tills
year.
The greatest ditUculty t'ulonel Bryan
encounters when ho upeaks for Tarter
is to convince his followers that he Is
sincere. They can't follow the logic
between his assertion of sincerity and
his declaration that he has nothing to
take back.
Germany Is now "dumping" steel In
Knglaud. Thirty-five years ago tier
mauy was buying steel from limit Brit
ain, but protective tariff laws have oper
ated In Germany as lit the tinted States
aud its progress in miyiufucturts has
been second ouly to this couutiy.
CA UTIOX A OA tSST "OV JTK-roA FWEXCE.
That Roosevelt and Fairbanks will
carry Nebraska by a plurality ranging
from 30,000 to 50,000 is conceded by
democratic ami populist leaders, includ
ing Bryan, Allen and Berge. It is pre
cisely this assurance of a trenwnrior.s
triumph for the national ticket that cre
ates ovr-conflde!tio in the rank and file
of the party and seriously endangers the
republican state, congressional and leg'
islatlve tickets.
It Is a matter of notoriety that the
plan of campaign adopted by the fnslon
Ists has for its objective point the cap
ture of the legislature, the election of
the governor and the election of one or
more demo-pop congressmen. With this
end in view all the artillery of the self
styled "reformers' and all the persua
sive eloquence of their campaign orators
Is concentrated upon state Issues and
every effort Is being made to place and
keep the republicans on the defensive.
At the same time a systematic still
hunt Is in progress in the rural portions
of the state and evrry preparation is be
ing made for calling out a full vote on
Flection day. Republican campaign
managers and republican candidates
should, therefore, exert nil their Influ
ence, energy and Capacity to counteract
the maneuvers of the common enemy
and especially to Impress npon the gryat
body of republican voters the danger of
defeat by over-confidence. In politics ns
In war It is foolhardy to underrate the
enemy.
A0 CAT.SC FOR ALARM.
The opinion expressed by the city en
gineer that the submission of the elec
tric light bond proposiilou by the coun
sel Is merely a clever move ou the part
of the electric lighting company, in
tended to discourage the people from
further attempts at municipal ownership
of public utilities, need not cause any
serious alarm. The Bee has positive
knowledge that the proposition was not
submitted at the instance of the electric
lighting company, but, on the contrary,
that Its efforts to sidetrack the ordinance
by a counter proposition for the exten
sion of the contract wero thwarted.
The assumption that the municipal
light bonds would if voted be declared
Invalid by the courts because there Is
no provision in the charter permitting
the city to construct a municipal lighting
plant of Its own is baseless. While the
charter does not expressly authorize the
city' to construct an electric light plant,
it makes ample provision for the acquisi
tion of such a plant. Section 122 of tho
charter empowers the city "to issue
bonds for the construction of a city hall
or any other needful buildings for the
use of tho city." That provision would
cover the erection of a power house for
generating electricity for public lighting
Just as it would the erection of a build
ing needed for any other legitimate mu
nicipal purpose.
The same section empowers the city
to issue bonds for the construction of
subways or conduits, and also author
izes the appropriation or purchase of
an electric light plant. Taken together
these charter provisions would cover all
that may be required for the establish
ment of a municipal lighting plant,
namely, the erection of a building for
housing the plant, and the construction
of subways or conduits for placing the
wires underground. This would natur
ally enrry with it also the right to erect
poles and hang lamps at the street cor
ners. ' '
The provision empowering the city to
purchase an electric lighting plant does
not necessarily mean that it must pur
chase a plant already in operation. In
asmuch as the plan does not contemplate
the supplying of power and light to pri
vate consumers, there is absolutely no
necessity for buying the plant of the ex
isting company. A liberal definition of
the right to purchase would mean that
the city could invite proposals for a
plant under plans and specifications and
award the contract to the best bidder.
The best bidder may be the Thomeon
ITouston company or any other concern
that manufactures electric machinery.
But even If the contention, that an
Issue of bonds for the construction" of nn
electric lighting plant would not bo legal
because of the detect In the charter,
were true, it would afford no argument
Rgnlnst voting the bonds. If more ex
plicit nuthorlty Is really needed for the
expenditure of the money there will bo
ample time to serure the necessary
amendments to the charter by the com
ing legislature Inasmuch as the street
lighting contract does not expire until
January 1, 1003.
In any event the proposition now sub
mitted will enable us to ascertain with
out expense whether the people of
Oninha want the elty to engage in mu
nicipal lighting or whether they are op
posed to it, and therefore prefer to re
new the contracts for public lighting
when they expire next year.
A GREAT ENTERPRISE.
The average American may not under
stand and appreciate what tho Canadians
mean when they talk of building a trans
continental road. That they may not,
comprehend what those grout peopio to
the north of us really mean when they
say that they are intent on doing a great
work which we have some doubt uboiit
their ability to do we must think of
their capabilities and of what they have
ul ready accomplished.
Tho Canadian government is today
one of the most energetic and aggressive
governments on tho earth. It Is working
all the time to tho one purpose of build
ing up its own interests aud its owu
markets. One of the foremost of Cstm
dluu statesmen, lu a recent publication,
says that It is Impossible that there tun
bo nuythlng like reciprocity betweeu the
1,'nltfd Btutes and Canada without con
ditions that do not now exist uud uro
not likely to exist lu the near future.
That Is an absolute fact, which ought to
be apparent to everybody.
The whole project of Canadian reci
procity Is without anything to Justify it
and the democratic demand for it Is ab
solutely unwarranted, Aa Ttr) body Is
aware, we have had a reciprocity treaty
with Canada and It proved to be an ab
solutely one-sided arrangement, so that
when our government saw that, after
years of experience, it dropped the
treaty. It Is not probable that It will
enter Into It again.
In the meantime the project of con
strnctlng a great railroad line between
Cunadian ports to the Pacific is one that
may well engage the attention and the
Interest of the American people. It
means a competition which may produce
conditions that cannot now be foreseen
but which It Is conceivable may make a
great deal of difference between the af
fairs and arrangements of transconti
nental traffic. In short, from every
point of view the great railway project
which the Canadian government has in
view Is one that has a very direct in
terest to the great American railroad In
terests and Is undoubtedly eo regarded
by them. There Is evcYy reason to be
lieve that ultimately the Dominion will
build the proposed railroad and that It
will be a formidable competitor to our
transpacific lines.
THE PRIVATE CAR TRUST,
A member of the Interstate Commerce
commission Is quoted as saying that the
conditions disclosed by the hearing by
the commission at Chicago, In the mat
ter of private car lines, disclosed "such
a burdensome and shameful Imposition
upon certain classes of large shippers
that he did not see how the publicity
given them can fall to Incite congress to
take action In the way of remedial leg
islation."
What these disclosures have been the
public Is already familiar with through
the daily reports of the investigation of
the commission, and they are certainly
sufficient to Justify the opinion that the
private car Interest Is of n nature to de
mand some action that will control Its
action and curtail, if possible, a practice
that is evidently hostile to the policy for
which the interstate commerce law was
enacted. It may not be within the au
thorlty of tho Interstate Commerce com
mission to correct the abuses Incident to
the private car line business, but It Is
certainly within the power of congress
to deal with It and the result of the
commission Investigation thus far will
undoubtedly present the matter to the
attention of congress.
OUR IfiTERyAL COMMERCE.
When we talk of our commerce how
few of us understand what Is meant
by the Internal business of the coun
try? The general idea that what we ure
talking of is foreign trade and as a
rule that impression Is correct, aud yet
it is only half the fact. The truth Is
that In estimating our commerce what
is due to the home market is only a
purt of the great computation that it is
necessary to make in order to under
stand tho relations between our foreign
and domestic business.
What the average person does not uu
derstand is that the great business oi
this country, in regard to its farms and
factories alike, is dependent upon a
policy that is absolutely committed to
the maintenance of every Industry that
contributes to the upbuilding of every
agency that goes to national Improve
ment What has been accomplished
during the last eight years of republican
control? What progress baa been made
since the republican party came Into
power less than eight years ago? Have
we not made progress? Have we not
grown In material power and In na
tional glory? Are we not today on Im
mensely greater nation than we were
five or ten years ago nnd are we not all
the time odvancing? These are ques
tions that address themselves to every
citizen and which every one, whatever
his position or occupation, should care
fully consider.
Whoever will study the facts of our
Internal commerce carefully must come
to the conclusion that it is worth look
ing after and preserving. It is tho
greatest commerce todoy that any na
tion In the world enjoys nnd any propo
sition to invade or Injure It should be
met by the overwhelming repudiation
of the American people. It has taken
nearly sixty years to build up this great
American market. The beginning was
made shortly after the breaking out of
the civil war, when the necessities of
the government required such legisla
tion. It has been continued ever since
because it has been found essential to
the upbuilding of tho Industries of the
nation and It is ns Important now as at
any time lu the past.
The Internal commerce of the United
States at this time Is as greHt as that
of the International commerce of the
world, which, according to the most
careful estimates, 'amounts to over $22.
000.000,000. The probability is that tho
great home market for our manufactur
ers and agricultural producers Is even
larger than the above estimate, but In
any event It Is a market that calls for
the utmost enre on the part of the
American people. .
"Bryan democrats ought uot to vote
for Parker," exclaims Tom Watson.
"Ho voted with them in two campaigns
and then left them without saying they
were wrong." What, then, should
Bryan himself do, insisting as he does
that he las said nothing he wishes to
take back, and having said tint Parker
was unfit to be the presidential nominee?
If Bryan has nothing to take back, how
can he advise anyone to vote for the
mun whose nomination he declared lu
advance would be almost the same as
putting flroyer Cleveland again at the
head of the democratic ticket?
As the days puss by I.aFollette'a
campaign In Wisconsin becomes more
interesting aud exciting. The refusal of
the Wisconsin stulwarts to vacate the
Held In spite of tli decision of the su
preme court by which the LaKollette
ticket has been pronounced regular will
help I.aFolMte a great deal more than
It will hurt him. As petition candidates
the stalwarts cannot possibly hope to
elect anybody and tho worst they can
do Is to shoot In the air. Had they
laid down most of them would prob
ably have voted for reck, the demo
cratic candidate.
Under what authority has the secre
tary of state reached the conclusion that
the democratic electoral ticket should
appear on the official ballot ahead of
the populist ticket? The relative post
tlon on the ballot Is supposed to be gov
erned by the strength of the respective
parties exhibited in the returns of the
preceding election, but where there is
anything In last year's election returns
to show that the democrats polled more
votes than the populists is not visible
on the surface.
When analyzed to its essence the di
vorce problem is not a church problem,
but a legal problem. Divorce la no
more an evil because one or both par
ties to it profess a particular form of
worship, or no worship at all. If the
church will help to solve the problem
so much the better, but whatever re
forms moy be eventually agreed upon
ns necessary, will have to be enacted
Into law to be liermanent and to apply
to all classes of citizens alike.
The retiring president of the Rock
Island road forced out after only a
year's service is said to have taken pre
cautions before he accepted the place to
secure a cash bonus of $500,000 and a
salary of $75,000 a year for five years,
whether he should retain his position or
not. A man as smart ns that ought to
be able to handle a big railroad without
any trouble.
Commercial agency reports all agree
that business has been less disturbed
by politics this year than in any pre
vious presldeutial campaign on their rec
ords. That means that every one 13
too busy to devote much attention to
politlca and every one who Is busy to
politics and every oue who is busy also
keep the republican party in power.
, Candidate Davis left the railroad yes
terday to make a spe?ch in a town
where there is no modern means of com
munication. This harking back to tho
practices of youth should prove pleasant
for the old man who Is sighing for tho
good old days of James Buchanan.
Trouble on tUe Firing- Line.
New York Tribune.
With Kurokl Watson hanging upon Its
flanks and harassing it dally with dashing
attacks, and with Kouropatkln Bryan
heading for the sliver country, the reor
ganized democracy does not know whether
It is advancing or retreating.
A Prophecy that Sticks.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Lord Mllner has resigned his Job as high
commissioner of South Africa. He Is
broken down In health owing to overwork
in the hopeless tauk of establishing peace
on the ashes of the Boer republics. Lord
Mllner has 'probably decided by this time
that "Oom Paul" was right when he said
the price would stagger humanity.
In
No Fear of Roosevelt.
Boston' Transcript.
In spite of all the bloodthlrat and mili
tarism of which his opponents so delight
In telling. President Theodore Roosevelt,
strenuous American, is the only ruler of
a nation to whom the peace congress thinks
It of any use to appeal. That Is one of
the striking facts of the campaign on
which timorous voters may dwell with
profit.
Delicate Shades of Color.
; Boston Herald.
The colored barber of Plttsfleld who has
been sued by a colored brother whom he
refused to shave, furnishes another re
minder of the fact that there la consider
able embarrassment about the enforcement
of civil rights for tbe negro right here In
Massachusetts and that the white folks
are not the only or most frequent of
fenders. , Whence Did FUnston Comet
Boston Globe.
Our soldiers, says General Funston, are
being recruited from "the Inferior classes,"
and the government will have to offer bet
ter pay t get superior men to enlist. If
the general will recall the great wars of
the United States, he will be reminded of
the fact that the American soldier, even
when ha found It hard to collect any pay
at ail, has been equal to every demand on
his fortitude and courage.
Fixed for Fall.
Chicago Chronicle.
When Judge Parker resigned his position
as chief Judge the event was heralded as
n Infallible Indication both of his lofty and
towering sense of honor and also of his as
surance that he win to be elected presi
dent. Now It leaks out that before he
would resign, honor or no honor, he had a
promise of a Job as a corporation attorney.
There is no sin In working for 'a corpora
tion as a lawyer or In any other capacity,
but hypocrisy and pretended virtue are of
fensive at nil times.
Veterans Passln Away.
Washington Star.
Soldiers of "the disappearing army," as
the veterans of the civil war have been
termed, are dying at the rate of 100 every
day, from sunrise to sunrise. This pathetic
Mowing Is made by the Quarterly state
ment of the pension bureau, given out by
Commissioner Ware. The mortality among
soldier pensioners of all wars and classes
last year was !ll,CT8 deaths, of which 30.071
were volunteer soldiers In the civil war.
Commissioner Ware estimates that there
are from 150,000 to 180,000 soldiers of the civil
war who are not on the pension rolls.
These he has designated as the "unknown
army." It Is said that fully 38,000 civil
war veterans (pensioners and nonpension
ers) died last year.
Paternalism Strikes si err Path.
American Medicine.
Municipal dentists are appointed and paid
for by many of the large towns and cities
of
Germany. In Btrasburg, for example.
ess children were examined last year, (Oi
teeth wore filled and 2,012 were extracted.
The method of work Is simple. The teacher
brings his c'.ass to the dentist, who ex
amines each mouth quickly1 and marks on
the card each child has brought whether
treatment Is necessary. If so, the child
must come again on a Saturday. Russia la
also Jotnlng In this movement, and has al
ready fitted up nine such Institutions In St.
Petersburg alone. And why not, or rather,
why so lat In coming, one might ask. If
Is true thai, generally speaking, good
teeth are necessary to good health and long
fe, and If. also, a large and growing pro
portion of cltixens have not good teeth,
hen It follows that the fact is one of pub-
Ho concern. Is It not, for Instance, of as
much Importance to tbe community that
workmen should bave good mautlcatlng and
Igestlng powers ss that there should be
130,000,000 city hulls, public parks, expos!
tlons, etc?
I
SIIIRKnu AT HIS WORK.
The Mas Wk Dora Jnat Eaonh t
HoM Hla Job.
Saturday Evening Iot.
An emplojer of thousands of men was
aaked what thlna- In all Ms lar-e opera
tions gave him the moat concern. "The
man who does a little less than Is ex
pected of him." was the reply. "He la
the dangerous factor In all business. The
absolute failure we readily dlFcover and
discharge, but the almost' escape detec
tion for months and often for yrars. and
they make our toaaea as well rs our tea's,"
and with a very serious amlle he added,
"The drip In buslnesa is worao thnn tho
leak."
It Is a condition that Is aa old as human
experience. Eighteen and a half centuriei
ago Seneca put It in these words: "Some
portion of our time Is taken from ua by
force; another portion la stolen from us;
and another slips away. But the most
disgraceful loan la that which arl'ci from
our own negligence; and If th-u wilt seri
ously observe, thou shalt perceive that a
great part of llfo nils from thoe who d
evil, a greater from those who do nothing,
and the whole from those who do not ac
compMsh the business which they think
they are doing."
Thousands of men fancy they are ful
filling their duty to their employers and to
their tasha by keeping hours and perform
Ing Just enough to hold on to their posi
tions. They have an Idfa that to do more
would be to give larger service than their
compensation required. They objci-t to
what they believe would bo extra values
"The old man aha'n't get more than he's
paying for," Is the vernacular.
l-ossibly .It neve strikes these trimmers
that In cheating their work thay are doing
double damage; they are Injuring their em
ployers much, but they are robbing them
ae.ves more; they are, In fact, losing every
ming m life that Is worth while. They
tare worse than If they did nothing at all
for time with, all Its precious values slips
entirely rrom them and leaves no sub
stance or satisfaction.
Half doing soon brings undoing. It Is
the nine-tenths doing or the ninety-nine
one-hundredths doing that bleeds business
and saps character.
THE DEMOCRATIC MOSES.
Some Biblical Lore Brightens a Dnll
Campaign.
Philadelphia Press.
Mr. Bryan's ardent and artful devotion
to Judge Parker receives new proof day by
day. In his speech at Maryvllle on Mon
day the Peerless said he used to think he
was the Moses of the democracy, and then
he added:
"But I don't think so now. Moses, you
know, was slow of speech, and the Lord
selected Aaron as his speechmaker. I be
lieve that I am the Aaron rather than the
Moses of the democracy. I am willing to
be the Aaron of the party if our Moses,
who has been so slow of speech, will but
lead the people out of the wilderness."
The delicacy and aptness of this allusion
to Judge Parker as "slow of speech" will
be recognized and appreciated. But there
Is a still more subtle and adroit sugges
tion to the characterization of Judge
Parker as the Moses of the party. Aaron
found his text in Deuteronomy, thirty
fourth chapter, parts of the first and fourth
verses i
"And Moses went up from the plains of
Moab unto the Mountain of Nebo to the
top of PIzgah, that is over against Jeri
cho, and the Lord showed him ail tho
land of Gllead unto Dan.
"And the Lord said unto him: 'I have
caused thes to see It with thine eyes, but
thou shalt not go over thither')''
And so Moses saw but never entered the
Promised Land. In the lines of Cecil
Frances Alexander's rhythmical threnody:
By Nebo's lonely mountain.
On this side of Jordan's wave,
. In a vale In the land of Moab
There lies a lonely grave.
And no man knows that sepulcher,
And no man saw It e'er,
For the angels of Ood upturned the sod
And laid the dead man there.
In one of his earlier speeches Mr. Bryan
said that Judge Parker would not carry
Nebraska. In his later speech wherein he
Is likened to Moses, Mr. Bryan furtively
Indicates that he will not carry the countr-
that, like his prototypo, he will not enter
the promised land, but will rest
By Nebo's lonely mountain,
On this side of Jordan's wave.
Truly Aaron, the speechmakerl
DANGER lit VIOLENT EXERCISE.
Timely Caution to Participants in
Fierce Athletic Games.
Baltimore News.
Now that students all over the country
are in the midst of hard training for ath
letic games, soma of the utmost violence,
the opinion of medical experts upon the
effect of violent exercise on growing per
sons is especially timely. The opinion of
the doctors upon this point was emphasized
at the recent meeting of the American
Medical association at Atlantlo City. Doo
tora are pretty generally agreed that vio
lent exercise seriously affects the health of
growing persons. It Is a notorious fact
that great athletes as a rule are not long
lived. As they arrive at full age with es
pecially vigorous constitutions they might
be expected to live to be much older than
the average healthy person. But such Is
not the case. They sacrifice longevity by
the effort required In their contests and In
the training preparatory thereto.
It Is a medical maxim that men are as
old as their arteries. If one's arteries show
degeneration, however few one's years, he
Is becoming an old mun. On the other
hand, while his arteries retain their orig
inal elaatislty and health tbe man Is still
young, no matter how many years he may
have counted. He has an expectancy of
many years of life. Fhyslclsns generally
agree that the great cause of arterial de
generation Is hard physical labor. This Is
especially true of labor among growing
children. If the boy between 15 and 20 Is
obliged to exert his physical powers to the
utmost he Is pretty sure to Initiate arterial
degeneration. When that boy is 40 or
his arteries begin to thicken, become rigid
and. tortuous. Thty fall to perform their
function In the circulation of the blood and
cause an undue tax upon the heart, with
the result ef heart disease or senility. The
Initiatory Impulse In this case hss probably
been given In youth by violent exercise.
Great feats of strength or wearing physical
labor forces the blood Into the arteries un
til It distends them. Sometimes It means
a lesion and sudden hreakdown through
aneurism or heart trouble. If this effect
does not follow It starts the deterioration
of the arteries, which finally ends In degen
eration. Thousands of young boys who are
obliged to engage In-severe physical labor
for a living must pay the penalty by pre
mature old age. There is no help for them.
But wiyi college athletes It is optional
whether they shall shorten their lives for
a little brief prowess on the field. If mcdl
cal men are right they will surely do so by
hard training and violent physical exercise.
Safety in Honest Work.
New Orleans Picayune.
Every youth, no mutter what may be the
quality and standing of his family, who
adopts a life of Idleness and becomes a
strt-et loafer wilt soon bloom out ss a crim
inal on tho roaTj to the penitentiary or the
gallows. There Is no escape from It but by
a course of honest Industry In such lines as
may be open and available to each. Work
Is tbe duty of every man and he should de
vote himself to It until It becomes a part
of his nature. Honest toll Is the opposite
of Idleness, vice aud crime.
f.rmo nniirn nnwrn.
The worst bankruptcy Is to lose heart.
It's a wsste of energy to spur a rocking
horse.
The best way to silence conscience Is to
obey It.
People who hope for the best do most to
secure It.
A stiff neck Is often found under a Jelly
like head.
Earth's harvests come from seeds thrown
out to die.
Filling the hands will not stop the achs
In the heart.
Self-conceit knows nothing more eloquent
than an echo.
The trouble with little sins Is thnt they
never stay that wsy.
The religion that scatters sunshine Is
nevpr wholly moonshine.
A good man la guided more by self
reproach thnn by reproof.
Count your mercies ss you do your money
and you will never be poor.
It Is love that enlarges the least drei
and self that shrinks the greatest.
Tell your children white lies and they will
soon hand you back the other color.
It's no use praying for peace when you
are tickling the buslncsa end of a mule.
He 13 likely to hav the most religion who
allows others the largest liberty In rel.gion.
When the preacher'a heart Is full of sal
ary his sermon Is likely to be short on
salt.
They who let their feelings govern their
faith generally let their greed govern their
girts.
Some men think they are not saying any
thing pointed unleso they are stabbing an
other. Many men run so hard to win the cake
life offers as a rrlze that they shake out
all their teeth long before they reach It.
Chicago Tribune.
t'EHSOXAL. AND OTHERWISE.
Copious showers of snow In several sec
tions of New York discredits the reports
of a hot campaign In the Empire state.
It Is hard to see how the Russians at
Port Arthur can be short of ammunition,
unless the besieged spurn the generous do
nations of the Japs.
Pointed shoes sre again coming Into fa
vor, especially with elderly men. For
boosting purposes, however, the old box
toe maintains an Impressive lead.
Hon. Robert J. Wynne, postmaster gen'
eral. Is a right royal addition to the presl
dent's fumlly. As the father of ten chll
dren he may be set down as a prize win
ner.
The fact that the Japs utilise empty beer
bottles as Insulators on telephone lines In
Manchuria goes to show that "old soldiers'
do not lose all their usefulness when the
cork Is drawn.
General Funston thinks that army offl
cers should get an Increase of 60 per cent
In pay and enlisted men 30 per cent. The
charm of this suggested division Is the
modesty of the proposer.
Kansans wax fearfully wrathy because
an Iowa professor declared, after an in
vestlgatlon, that "the people of western
Kansas are crazy more than half the
time." The wnrwhoops from the troubled
region Indicates there are wheels turning
somewhere.
New York taxpayers have had their en
thuslasm for Carnegie libraries beautifully
frosted by the statement of the controller
that the Item for books alone will take
ISOO.OOO next year. There Is no evidence,
however, that thrifty Andy is In the book
publishers' pool.
A Des Moines Judge holds that flirting
in public is a menace to the morals of the
people and must be suppressed at any
cost. Right you are, Judge. The morals
of a state capital Is such a delicate, re.
fined article that the scoffs of posers causes
nervous prostration.
Bob Fltzslmmons is going to establish an
asylum for millionaires. Heretofore this
class of unfortunates have been overlooked
and allowed to bear their burdens without
a helping hand. Their troubles will be
lightened mightily as soon as lanky Bob
gets action on their slats.
JUSTICE FOR SIHITEHS.
Grievances thnt Cry Oat for Remedial
Legislation.
Chicago News.
A great deal of testimony was presented
to the Interstate Commerce commission at
the hearing In Chicago In proof of the
charge that shippers of fruit, melons and
similar produce are being outrageously In
jured by the Armour car line and Its con
federates, the railroads. Other owners of
private car lines are believed to have
agreements with railroads that are very
harmful to shippers compelled to use such
private cars. Charges for service that are
exorbitant, as compared with those made
by the railroads direct, have to be paid
or the victim goes on a blacklist and has
no credit left so far as the railroads are
concerned. Testimony to this effect was
plentiful.
The grievances of shippers are great In
deed If all the stories told by witnesses
during this investigation are to be accepted
at their face value. Enough Is known at
least to show that existing abuses of power
by firms that control an enormous amount
of freight and that own cars not only for
the transportation of their own products
but of the products of their competitors are
a great evil. When the railroads bind
themselves by contract to haul competing
products in the private cars of the big
shipper, In whose Interest exorbitant
charges for Icing are levied, they place a
great Industry at the mercy of that ship
per. Competition can be squeezed to death
or seriously crippled. Consumers of the
products so outrageously taxed find them
selves compelled to pay enormously for
those products. The Injurious effects are
far-reaching.
Congress must take up this matter with
a determination to bring about a complete
reform. .Tho railroads should not be per
mitted to hand over an Important part of
thnlr bualneus as common carriers to pri
vate firms. The reign of monopoly and
plunder In the name of big business must
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Washington Tost: A religions sect In
Florida claims thnt the Inside of tho earth
Is Inhabited. This may serve to spoil the
pessimist's claim that this Is a hollow
world.
Baltimore American: The archbishop of
Canterbury Js a remarkable tourist. He
frankly acknowledges that he has corns to
this country to learn and not to teaoh.
For sn Englishman he is stranpely Indif
ferent about establishing a precedent.
Springfield Republican: rtlrhop Hart sell
has come horns to tell us that he 'vanta
the t'nlted States to hnve a purt of Africa.
Doesn't he know that our sbare of Africa
Is with us already? And Isn't It all we enn
asnlmllste comfortably In the next 200
years?
Boston Globe: President Harper of Chi
cago university says that In the last fifty
years not a single religious problem has
been solved by the theological serr.tnurlrs
of the United Statea. Why doesn't that
apply to the theological schools of all times
and all climes? The great religious leaders
have usually found their "books In the
running brooks, sermons In stones, and
good In everything."
Chicago Post: Tho dream of church
unity probably never enn be realised. No
Eplscopallnn, no Methodist, no Presby
terian, and no follower of any other Prot
estant faith cares for church unity If Its
securing means the acknowledging of tho
supremacy of Rome. This would be to set
back the clock of the world. It Is possible,
liowever, to bring about a better under
standing between the churches, and to this
end Bishop Donne spoke.
Washington Tost: We all know that
evangelists are honest, well-meaning people
and we respect them accordingly. They
seriously believe that they serve the Savior
by Invading the ancient civilizations of
Asia and endeavoring to persuade them of
their errqr. The notorious fact that they
have never yet "converted" a single Bud
dhist or Mohammedan or Confucian of fair
Intelligence and respectable position means
much to the philosophical observer, but
does not disturb the unconquerable enthusi
asm of the missionaries. The fact remains,
nevertheless, that neither In India, nor
Asia, nor China, nor Japan has our theol
ogy made the slightest genuine progress
since the first launching of the propaganda.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
Uncle John So you were at Miss Dinkey's
wedding! Who was the lucky man?
Willie I was. She turned me down three
weeks ago. Chicago Times.
He Don't you think you could learn to
love me?
She I doubt If you have enough money
to pay for my education. Boston Globe.
"So Mr. and Mrs. Jones have quarreled?
Whv doesn't she make up?"
"She does, dreadfully. That's why thev
quarrel." Pittsburg Dispatch.
Jaggles (at the art gallery) That nude
figure on her knees with her head bowed
down la called "Repentance."
Waggles I should think if she'd repented
she would have put on more clothes. Town
Topics.
Kwoter He laughs best who laughs
last." There's a great deal of truth In that
old saw.
Wise Yes, but there's more truth In the
new saw, that he laughs best who laughs
first and whose laugh lasts. Philadelphia
Press.
"Have you ever felt that you would like
to hear the public clamoring your praises
and making the echoes ring with your ap
plause?" "No," answered Senator Sorghum. "I
used to feel that way. But I have ob
served that the public will extend the same
recognition to a trapeze act In a circus."
Washington Star.
"See here!" exclaimed
"you spenk of the bride
the city editor,
as being led to
me aitar.' "
"Well?" replied the new reporter.
"Well, that's nonsense. There never was
a bride who couldn't find her way there, no
matter what the obstacles might be,
Philadelphia Ledger.
Maud Do vou know what Kit MeFrsnk-
lln says about you? She told me the other
day that she got Archie Feathertop away
from you.
Mavbel e mess nor mile nean. sne am:
Please tell her I'm so grateful to her for It
that I'm going to let her keep him. Chi
cago Tribune.
Mrs. Hoyle My husband has queer tastes
about his dress.
Mrs. TJov e Ho baa mine: wnen ne comes
home In bad shate he goes to bed with the
same shoes on that ho has worn all day.
Town Topics.
Wife Do you believe that marriage Is a
lottery?
Husband No: I don't.
Wife Why not?
HuHhand Because when a man draws n
blank In a lottery he can tear It up and
take another chance. Chicago News.
'Where have you been. George?"
'I've been at the Mar political mwn.
my dear. Heard one or tne cleverest laixen
In tne DUSiness. caaiern man aim cjiuuk
full of wit and argument."
which sloe is ne on?
Eh? Which side? Well. I'm blest If I
know!" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
SATIRE'S SOFTEJUSG TOUCmWB.
John G. Whittier.
Yet still the wilding flowers would blow,
The golden leaves would fall,
The seasons come, the seasons go,
And God be good to all.
Above the graves the hlaokberry kung
In bloom and green Its wreath,
And harebells swung as If they rung
The chimes oi peace beneam.
The beauty Nature loves to share.
The gifts she hath for all,
The common light, the common air,
O ercrept ine graveyaru a wan.
It knew the glow of eventide.
The sunrise and the moon,
And glorified and sanctified
11 siepi Deneatn in" wuuu.
With flowers or snowflakes for Its sod,
Avsttinii fhe ipqnitiM ran.
And evermore the love of God
Rebuked tne tear oi man.
Secure on Ood's all-tender heart
Alike rest great and small:
Whv fear to lose our little part,
When He is pieogea ior aii r
O fearful heart and troubled brain t
T'lii. hnne and strength from this
Thnt Nature never hints In vain,
Nor propnesies amiss.
Her wild birds sing the same sweet stava,
Iter lights and airs are given
Alike to playground and the grave;
And over noin is neavsn.
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