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TTIE OMATIA DAILY HEE: SUNDAY. JULY 30, 1903. J Tiie Omaiia Sunday Deb E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. rCBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Fialty Pee without Sunday), om year. .$4 00 'ally Uee and Sunday, one year 0 ) Illustrated He, one year IM Sunday Bee, one year tM Saturday R, one jmr l.W Twentieth Century Farmer, one year.... 1.00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... to Dally fife (without Bundav), per week...l2o Dully llee (Inrludlng Sunday), per week. .170 Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 7o Evening Ilea (Including Sunday), per week llo Sunday Bee, per copy 6o Complaints of Irregularities In delivery should Im addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M streets. C'ounnll Bhiffa 10 Pearl street. Chicago l!4w Cnlty Building. New York-15ol Home Ufa Insurance Building. , Waahlngton-'-Bnl Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter should be addreaaed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company, only 2-oent atampa received In payment of mall account!. Personal checks, except on Omaha tir eastern exchanges, rot accepted. THE BEE PUBLI8HINO COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska. Douglaa County, ss.: C. O. Rosewater, secretarv of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number ot full and complete copies 0f The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during th month of June, 16. waa aa follows: 1 20.0AU Id. ifl,H0 I t), WOO t 17. 8IMSO 1 81,140 18 20,1100 i W.20O 19 811,050 1 20.SOO m Wl.THO t. int.oao 2i aw.ooo I HI.HHO tl.i XtMMW 2U.OOO a 80,4t0 80,150 u si, zoo 10 83,810 16 BO,2M 11 , 2,BOO - JW.T30 12 SU.TIO TJ.... I JJO.TSO U 20.700 M S,730 14 20.TO0 t 28,750 U 29.UDO W J4,70O Total .904,050 Less unsold copies ,- Net total sales 804.1O0 Dally average 2U,8oa C. C. ROSBWATER, Secretary, Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 7th day of July, 1805. (Seal.) M. B.'HUNQATE. Notary Public WHEN OCT or TOWH. Sabsertbors leavlac the city tem porarily should ausi) Ths Be mailed to them. It ts batter than at dally letter from home. Ad dress will bo ehansea as oftea as relocated. Can It be that those Tlatt love letters were seized by tse publishers of "Fads and Fancies?" Borne of the get-rlch-qulck seed must have blown over from the roetoffiee Into the Agricultural department. When Uncle Ham begins to lay In his urpllea for celebrating next Fourth of July, China may regret that boycott. Although Omaha is Infected by the "Yellows" no quarantine has been deemed necessary against New Orleans. Now that Chairman Shouts has viewed the Isthmus with his own eyes It is to be hoped that he will speedily see what Is beneath the surface. Russian uewspnpers are assuming a warlike tone, showing that Russia Is no different from others who can be brave when danger passes. Since Moscow has a new governor and a new prefect of police the price of dyna mite may be expected to advance In the old Muscovite capital. The announcement of the royal British visit to India in October is made In time for native rnlers to get their second best diamonds ready for gifts. Developments In the neighborhood of Vienna show that Emperor Francis Jo seph has learned from King Oscar how not to let a kingdom escape. Judging by the spread of yellow fever tit New Orleuns the "Italian quarter" must have been a nunc popular resort a fvw days ago than at present. The question stfcuis to be not whether the Nebraska Grain Dealers' association shall dissolve, but whether it shall dis solve voluntarily or Involuntarily. The shotgun quarantine In the south Is assuming-a wider scoim. Heretofore It bus applied only on election day to prevent Inoculation of the ballot box by negro voters. The men behind the race track tabooed by Governor Folk might take their show to the canal gone and help the govern ment solve the problem of entertaining Its workmen. Nebraska bus live separate and dis tinct anti-trust laws on its statute books. That probably explains why the trust promoters profess to be at a loss as to which one they may be violating. Th Bcnniugtou accident may do Tor the nary what the Slocuin disaster did for the steamboat inspection service, but it Is safe to say that rtctlon will not be preceded by as much lrrcs;xuslble talk. The rural letter carriers will hereafter I expected to point the letter boxes on their routes, for Which service they will receive additional compensation without serving nu apprenticeship as artists in oil. The genuineness of the tight on Illegal registration In rhiladelphlu cunuot be de nied since one of the leading newspapers takes two columns of editorial space to advise wives of policemen to see that the law is enforced. Kansas announces that suit will be started against the bondsmeu of Kellcy to secure money lost in a failed bank. Nebraska records will show Kansas law yers how to protract that suit as long as for them are in sight FRENZIED ZIONISM. Among the traditions most cherished by orthodox Jews Is the promised re vival of the kingdom of God through the restoration of ralestlue to the children of Israel. The return to Zion, however, has been receding with the procession of the centuries and appears more remote now than it has ever been since the destruc tion of Jerusalem Iry the Roman legions under Titus. Yet the tradition of the restoration to Zion is kept alive from generation to generation and the prayer "next year in Jerusalem" Is fervently of fered at each recurring festlvol of the Passover, that commemorates the eman cipation of Israel from Egptlan bondage. A revival of the ancient tradition within recent years under the name of "Zionism" by frenzied visionaries, who mistake the unrest among the Jews of Russia and Roumanln as a world-wide yearning for the restoration of the King dom of Israel, tends to create the impres sion that the movement has the universal assent of all who profess the faith. Tha recognised leaders of the Zionist move ment have been Dr. Herzel, who died Mlibln the past year, Israel Zanpwcl! and Mx Nordau. Although distlczuUiied in the realm of literature Zangwell and Nordau are, when It conies to practical affairs, and especially state building, mere dreamers of dreams who do not seem to comprehend that modern Juda ism Is as much at variance with Zion ism as the government of modern Hgypt Is at variance with the government of the pyramid builders. To begin with, Palestine in Its palm iest days would not have leen large enough and productive enough to sup port the more than ten million Jews now living. In the next place, the great mass of Jewish people could not go to Tales tine If they would, and would not be willing to live there If they could. They have nothing In common but their creed. They speak as many languages as were spoken at the tower of Babel and the proof of It Is that the handful of frenzied Zionists assembled at Basle have not been aide themselves to get harmonized without a fight because they are not agreed upon creed ritual, let alone upon form of government. While the majority of Jews now living under monarchical governments might be content to live in a kingdom, a very large fraction would spurn the very Idea of a monarchy and blow It up with dynamite rather than submit. The great majority are attached sincerely to the various countries of their Jitrth, or adoption, and could not be recalled to Zion even If Gabriel blew his horn. I The scheme to create n new Zion in British East Africa is more preposterous and harebrained. If such a thing could be, than the proposed rehabilitation of the Jewish state In Palestine. It has ab solutely no merit and Is no more feasible than lany other scheme of colonization that has been offered for the oppressed Jews, who are groaning undef the iron rule of the czar. Its summary rejection by the Basle conference should convince Its well-meaning but unbalanced advo cates that It has no more attraction for the oppressed and persecuted than a re call of the taskmasters on the Nile would have had on their ancestors after they had crossed the Red Sea on their way to the Tromlsed Land. SISQ1NO THE SAME OLD SVNO. Dispatches from Little Rock announce with great solemnity the departure of the Arkansas representative of the New Y'ork underwriters, who in consequence of the persistent and successful efforts of Its governor and attorney general has found himself, like Othello, without an occupation as insurance rate maker. In bidding the people of Arkansas adieu the departing insurance autocrat had this to say: The passage of the anti-trust law and the recent favorable Interpretation by the su preme court of this state has created a strangely anomalous as well as an alarm Ing condition of affairs In Arkansas, which will. If it continues, cause untold annoy ance to all business Interests In this state, and, indeed, threatens disaster to our Indus trial well-being and advancement It iias resulted In the driving out of the state of the old-line fire Insurance companies, thereby leaaentng the supply of valid and trustworthy fire Insurance, which has today become a very basis of credit and a part of the foundation upon which our entire com mercial structure is built. The result has j been that the only fire Insurance that is now obtainable is that which Is furnished by a few small state companies, and still fewer obscure companies having their head quarters In other states, .the combined cap ital of which la not equal to tho assets of a single company which this law has driven away. The result has been the Inevitable one. Decreased supply, causing an un precedented demand for insurance, already has been and will continue to be the cause of a steady Increase In the price to be paid for Insurance which wilt very soon be felt by all classes of Insurers. The action of the legislature has not only Imposed a hard ship upon all classes of people in this state, but has defeated the very object and the first principles of anti-trust legislation. This is simply dreadful, but the good people of Arkansas will have to bear it and suffer for their foolhardy Interfer ence with the benevolent operations of the insurance trust. Their lamentable condition is a disagreeable reminder of the pusillanimity of Nebraska business men who have allowed themselves to be scared out of their boots by the Swan Song of the Arkansas traveller. We have heard that song In Nebraska word for word every time that an attempt has been made to break up the insurance combine and the rate makers have ac tually had the uerve'to threaten to move their office from Omaha to Council Bluffs and dictate insurance rates from the other shore, as If by so doing they could escape the consequences of the Sherman anti-trust law, which would be more severe on them than the anti trust law of Nebraska. IVrunps at no very distant day the merchants, manufacturers aud home owners of Nebraska will brace up and muster courage enough to grapple with the insurance trust ut the risk of its moving away between two days, leaving us without fir insurance protection. The Arkansas example may be a bad one. but if all the states should follow suit the underwriters would probably have to underwrite themselves. If they wanted to continue In the business. HILL AGREE TO AN ARMISTICE The statement, apparently authorita tive, that Japan will agree to an armis tice, If It shall prove to be the fact, will simplify to a considerable extent the peace problem. It has been a matter of a good deal of concern as to what the position of Japan would be In regard to the question of nu armistice. That Is a matter of certslnly the very first Ira portauce. A cessation of hostilities on the part of the victorious nntlon, when all the conditions are In its favor, is without precedent The uniform rule Is under such circumstances that the power having the supremacy shall dictate Its own terms In regard.to whether or not it will grant an armistice to the enemy. That seems to be absolutely legitimate. The victorious army has an unquestion able right to Insist that every position it has taken and every advantage it has gained shall be held and that nothing shall be done that will In the slightest degree operate to the detriment of the army that has won the advantages. What is an nrmlstice? It means simply a cessation of hostilities for whatever time the belligerents r.ioy agree upon. It does not necessarily mean, however, that there shall be no military operations dur ing the period of the armistice. For In stance, an arrangement for a cessation of warfare would not prevent either of the ormles from Increasing their strength and making more formidable their mili tary positions. They could go on adding to their military forces and augmenting their power In every way. Actual fight ing would lie stopped. There would be no skirmishing and no advance move ment of any kind, but the armies would not be debarred, except by special agree ment from continuing to strengthen themselves In every way that their com manders might deem necessary. It Is therefore seen that while an armistice stops fighting for the time in which the agreement is made, it does not put an end to operations with a view to future fighting. It Is necessarily a tern' porary arrangement, a truce that may Inst for a week or a month, but is by no means decisive In its character. Conse quently when an armistice is talked of it by no means signifies that an agreement of that kind signifies the close of a war. It hos no such meaning. All that it sig nifies Is that there has been a halt, that the warring nntkms are willing to cease fighting until they can talk over proposi tions looking to peace and that they' are willing or disposed to come to an agree ment for a settlement of their difficulties. An armistice between Russia and Japan will bo a circumstance of great impor tance, but it will not mean an inevitable conclusion of peace between those coun tries. CRIMINAL LAW OK LAVS. The reprieve of Hoch, the convicted bigamist and murderer, will doubtless be referred to as another evidence of the delay In the operation of our criminal law and It is a case which very pointedly enforces the fact that In respect to our practice In criminal cases of this charac ter we are far behind European coun tries. This man confessed to a number of bigamous marriages. The evidence upon which he was convicted of having murdered one of his wives was most con clusive. In England or any othor Eu ropean country the sentence of death for his crime would have been carried out, but here he Is given another opportunity, through the intercession of a woman whose sympathy wns aroused for the brutal culprit, to iuuke a fight for his life. Is there any reasonable Justification for this? We think a majority of people who believe that Justice should be promptly administered to such Bcoun drcls will say, there is not There has been a great deal of criticism upon the lax methods of administering; Justice In this country. In nn address some time since to the Yale Ixiw school Secretary Taft set forth that the administration of the criminal law In most of the states of this country Is a dlsgraea to our civiliza tion. He cited the statistics showing the great number of murders and homicides that had occurred during the Inst twenty years and the few executions that hnte taken plnce. The facts are surprising. For Instance, In 11WH the uutnbet of mur ders was 8AS2, while the(number of ex ecutions wos only 110. Such a record would have been Impossible In any other civilized land. The obvious fact Is, as urged by Judge Taft, that there must be a radical re form In our system of criminal Jurispru dence. We must get nearer to the Brit ish system, which If not abstdutely de void of defects is unquestionably su perior to our own. The matter Is one which ought to receive the careful at tention of all American b;ir associations. DISFRANCHISING VETERANS. The recent decision of a Kansas Judge, that the old soldiers of the federal home at St. James were not entitled to vote, has been challenge by Senator Warner of that state and the Issue he has raised will undoubtedly receive wide attention, since there Is Involved in the decision of the court the question whether the veterans of the union army who are In mates of soldiers homes are entitled to the suffrage. It is manifestly a very important matter, which may be urged upon the Attention of cougress, since it Is one of those things which manifestly need to be clearly defined. The Judicial decision-wag that a mem ber of the federal home at St. James, Kan., or of the confederate home at Hlg giusville, in that state, was not entitled to vote. With this decision Senator Warner, himself a war veteran, takes Issue aud we think there will be very general acquiescence with his view. In an article to a Kansas City paper he says: "It will take more than the de cision of one circuit Judge, however non partisan or able he may be, to make me believe that the act of the legislature declaring that the old veterans In the federal and confederate homes should not lose the right to vote by reason of being memberr therein is In vloiatlou of section 8 of article vlll of the Constitu tion of Missouri, which disfranchises In mates of poor houses and prisons main tained at public expense. It Is an In sult to American manhood to so characterize- them now." Senator W-uncr dclores that if the higher court affirms the decision of the lower tribunal thfn the Imperative duty of the Missouri leg islature is to submit a constitutional amendment to the people that "sljr.il pro tect those old boys of the b1u and tlie gray In the exercise of the elective fran chise." There can be no doubt, we think, tlwt the position of Missouri's Junior senator In this matter will be most heaiti'y ap proved by a majority of the pco;l'j of his state, as It certainly will be by the general sentiment of the country. It would be a most flagrant wrong to de prive the veterans who are in tin f-fder il homes of the right to vote and It can be very confidently asserted that the people of the country will unqualifiedly con demn any "such policy. No element of our people Is better entitled to the suf frage than the veterans of the civil war aiid there will be a unlvers.il demand that they shall enjoy this great jrlvilesre of the American citizen. The position tnfcer, by Senator Warner in the matter Is absolutely right and will hare general public approval. Under no clrcum st.'icces should the old soldiers be denied or deprived of any right that Is common to American citizens. ELECTRICITY IN PRACTICAL VSE A large part of this Issue of The Bee is given over to the subject of electricity In its practical application to modern every-day life. We believe thnt the sub ject is one that will thoroughly Interest our readers, few of whom would appre ciate the extent to which we have all be come dependent upon electricity unless tjlelr nttentlon ,were drawn to It by such a review of electrical progress and achievements. If the nineteenth century could be aptly termed the "age of steam," the twentieth century promises to be char acterized with equal appropriateness as the "age of electricity." And what we have already seen accomplished In the way of turning electricity to account in home and office, factory, mill, mine and field promises, according to all Indica tions, to prove only an entering wedge toward what Is to come from the har nessing of the electric current, and por tends even greater transformations in outi industrial and soclol life than did the harnessing of steam. What is actually being done by elec tricity today in a city like Omaha fur nishes a story sufficiently fanciful to make It quite unnecessary to draw on what the Imagination could picture for the future. Ex-Senator Cockrell, who is now n member of the Interstate Commerce commission, conducted an investiga tion of the allowance made by rail roads on grain shipments to grain elevators at Kansas City last weVk. During the progress of the Investigation Commissioner Cockrell declared that the railroad ought to do the transferring of grain and all things incidental to its transportation; in other words, that no third party should come between the rail road and the shipper, and the rallronds should own and operate the groin eleva tors. Perhaps Commissioner Cockrell was not aware of the fact that the rall ronds do own most of the big elevators, or, at any rate, their officers are reputed to have a large Interest in them Just as they have In express companies, sleeping car and private car lines. William Jennings Bryan announces that ho Is about to take a long foreign trip in order to bring back what he could to promote good government. Mani festly Bryan's mind has undergone a radical change since he enunclnttd the famous edict for "free coinage without the aid or consent of any other nation on earth." But really, what Is there In foroign countries that Bryan can bring back to America that will enable him to give us better government when he takes the helm? "I have served under a number of sec retaries of war," an army officer Is quoted by the Outlook as saying, "but two of those secretaries were as fine gen tlemen as I ever met. I couldn't tell which was finer Daniel Lamont or Ellhu Root." That's pretty hard on some other eminent gentlemen who have served as secretaries of war In letween. An eulighteiied public should come to the assistance of Commissioner of Public Lands Richards, whose political "scalp" Is threatened by the mountaineers of Colorado and Utah at least he cannot bo charged with having instituted the land lottery. Notwithstanding tho consolidation of three banks and In spite of the shrinkage in its bank clearings, Omaha shows an increase of C2 per cent In las week's clearings as compared with those of the corresponding week of tho preceding year. Perhaps that Russian rebellion which is scheduled to take place when the re servists are called to the colors this fall is announced only to fool the men who engineer the real thing In the way of trouble. Nebraska day at the Portland exposi tion has been fixed for August 21. Ne braskans who happen to be In the Puget sound country at that time should take It on themselves to do the st ite proud. We now understand why Secretary Taft was so anxious to make an inspec tlon tour of the Phlllipines by the way of Japan. Secretary Taft enjoys a full dinner pail Immensely. Braeer of Backbones. New York Tribune. Governor Carter of Hawaii, after an in terview wlllt lbs president, ha concluded not to resign. He Is not the first who has obtained a fresh supply of courage from a talk with Mr. Roosevelt. Where They Are Sorest. Washington Tost. John D. Rockefeller Is raid to have a sore heart. Even thnt Is to be preferred to a sore head, such as Mr. Dawson has. FUhlnar at Port Arthur. Philadelphia Inquirer. Jaran Is Ashing some very good warships out of Port Arthur mud; but It Is not be llevcd that they will figure In the Indemnify calculations. linn to Stop rasa Graft. Wall Street Journal. The waytto abolish the psss 'graft'' U to stop Issuing passe. There la no other way, If abolition entails vexatious restrictions upon rallronds In the rendering of public service, the public will abolish tho restric tions sooner or later. Railroad managers are the only people who can remedy the trouble. Laws will not do It. What Ilont Would Say. Chicago Chronicle. Men may well pray to be saved from their fool frlnnls. Here Is a Massachusetts edi tor predicting that Elitlu Root will be "the greatest secretary of stote that the republla ever has known." It Is safe to say that If Mr. Root had that editor where he could tell him privately what he thinks of hltn the excessive admiration of the Journalist would speedily moderate. Why Is It that some people must eternally be In the super lative degree? "Rip" In Bronse. Atlanta Constitution. From Richmond comes the suggestion of a bronie monument to Joseph Jefferson, to be erected from contributions of American theater-goers. It would be difficult to im agine a more fitting trlbuto from the people of this country. Though he realised full well in the possession of the affection and esteem of the theater-goers of several decades, ft Is, eminently appropriate that Jefferson's career be tangibly commem orated so that those yet to come may appreciate the largeness of his role In our day and time. He was truly a public benefactor. The dignity, purity and charm with which he invested one of the fore most of our quasl-publlo institutions, no less than the innocent recreation he has provided thousands of people tired in body and mind, constitute a high claim upon gratitude. Optimist, apostle of light and unconscious preacher of moral cleanliness, the seal of recognition might well bo put upon his usefulness in the manner sug gested. RAILWAY MAIL RATES. Why Does Xot Conarreaa Insist on economy in This Itemf Cleveland Leader. One of the growing burdens of tho na tional treasury Is the deficit In the" Post office department. The rapid extension of the rural free delivery system has greatly widened the gap between the receipts of the postal service and its expenditures, and the prospect is that this will go on indefinitely. Meanwhile the government continues to pay about the same price for the carrying of Its mails that the railroads obtained in 1878, nearly three decades ago. Other railway transportation costs much less than It did then. Passengers ride tor lower fares. Freight rates have been reduced far below the old average. No one has ever explained why the railroads should receive anything like the price they charged a quarter of a century ago for carrying the malls. If the national government had shared fully In the general reduction of tho cost of railroad service the deficit In the Post offlce department would be much less than It Is, every fiscal year. The exten sion of the rural free delivery system would not then burden the treasury as it does now. Why docs not congress insist, upon lower rates for the railway malls? What Is the obstacle in the way of rea sonable economy? How long will It prevent action? mason Asn nixovs LIXE. Old Landmark Furbished I'p to Serve . for Future Years. Boston Globe. Mason and Lixon'a line has been reset In Pennsylvania- and Maryland, and with so much care and thoroughness that it promises to require no more attention for a very long rcrlod of years. It had been badly disarranged, many of the marking stones and posts having been carried away in the nearly 140 years since they were set by Charles Mason and Jere miah Dixon, two eminent English mathe maticians and surveyors. These gentlemen were employed to mark out the disputed boundary line between the state of Pennsylvania an(j tn9 Blatea of Maryland and Virginia. They began In 17(13 an1 concluded in 1767, having been In terrupted, when within thlrty-slx miles of the whole distance to be surveyed, by the hostile Indians. The stones that marked the miles were brought from England, those at each mile having the initial P on one side and B on the other, and the five-mile stones having the arms of Baltimore on one side and those of William Penn on the other. The term, "Mason and Dixon's line," waa used by John Randolph In the debates on slavery, before the admission of Missouri, as figurative of the division of the two systems of labor. It became popular as a phrase to denote the border line between the free and slave states, and was usd In that sense up to the civil war. FR AID ORDER. Valuable Public Service Performed by Postonire Department. Philadelphia Public Ledger. The value of the Postofflce department aa an instrument for the suppression of fraud ulent enterprises depending upon the malls for their success cannot be overestimated. The get-rlch-qulck schemers endeavor to reach the public through the postofflce, and the reports of the department show the gullblllty of mankind. Postmaster General Cortelyou has been particularly active In running down the promoters of various sohemes which appeal to the cupidity of the ignorant or to the gambling instinct on the lookout for chances. It was not until 1679 that the first fraud order was Issued by the department. During the last four months 157 orders have been issued, or about the number issued during the first six years of the fraud-order law. It Is becoming more and more perilous for fraudulent concerns to use the malls for any length ot time and the revocation of fraud orders Is becoming Increasingly dif ficult. The Issuance of so many orders is due to the alertness of the department and to the efficiency of the new system intro duced by Postmaster General Cortelyou, rather than to the increased use of the malls for fraudulent purposes. The money saved to the too confiding public since the orders were first Issued I cannot be estimated, but the amount has been enormous. The ceaseless activity of the government In purging the malls of se ductive circulars has probably done more to save the public from loss than the stats statutes prohibiting lotteries and other forms of gambling have accomplished in this direction, Before the government In tervened to prevent the uoe of the post otfice by the gamesters almost any ques tionable scheme advertised through tha malls was sure to flourish for a long period and to secure a large clientage of aupos. ETICCE KRMOXS. Hope always helps. Men are not won by working them. Cold cash may give warm comfort. A loafer never eats any sweet bread. Borrow may be a course in sympathy. God's truth often Jumps man's track. Long wind cannot make up for short weight. Loyalty to old truths means looking out for new. ' Heaven's best gift to any one Is some one to surfer for. The oily hypocrite does not lubricate the church wheels. People will discover a good man without the aid of a press agent. . Heaven measures a man's wealth by the things he has given away. Happiness Is not In having what we like but In liking what we have. A little degree of divinity la better than the biggest degree In divinity. Malice furnishes poor material with which to build new friendships. Tho sense of the All Seeing eye ought to save us from the all sounding I. A bigot Is a man who Is blind in one eye and can only see one thing with the other. Religion commends the tender henrt, but It does not ask for the same kind of a heaa. The best way to clear your title to an estate In the skies is to pay your taxes on it now. The man who learns by his mistakes soon discovers that there Is no graduating from that school. Chicago Tribune. 9ECII.AR SHOTS AT THE PVLPIT. Boston Globe: Perhaps the Indiana Meth odist minister who has Introduced the Inno vation of serving Ice-cold lemonade to the members of his congregation during the time of service -would get even larger audi ences If he would put a little stick In It. Baltimore American: It Is probable that the professor In the Chicago Theological seminary who was dismissed for asking John D. Rockefeller for monev tnleht have held his place If he hnd not tried to be Jocose In requesting funds for "foreign missionary work at home." The professor should have known that Mr. Rockefellr has never exhibited a sense of humor. To become the richest man in the world is a serious business. Philadelphia North American: Just a hade worse Is the practice of misleading through appearances. That seems to be the fashion nowadays. There seems to have grown up an Idea that the dollar mark looks like the cross to some people. Of course. It costs something to Impress men with this notion, but not much when we compare the amount expended with that still left and then we must remember that advertising one's sanctity comes high. Portland Oregonlan: It Is seldom of late that a church member has been observed standing on Jordan's stormy banks and casting a wishful eye to Canaan's fair and happy land, where his possessions He. Ills possessions do not He In Canaan; here on earth nnd frequently In an abundance that makes one worry to think how he Is going to manage to squeeze through the straight gate and along the narrow way with them all, they He about him: and when the tax- gatherer appears he lies about them, quite as if !he thought the ties binding him to a vain world like this neither transient nor slender. The Christian hss forsaken Jor dan's stormy banks for good and all; nor does he often visit of late that narrow neck of land between two stormy seas where Charles Wesley stood so secure and Insensible while he weighed his chances of landing In heaven or being shut up In hell. The up-to-date believer does not positively deny that there Is such a place as heaven, though he reserves a doubt; but when you come to hell the very name Is shockingly unrefined; the place does not exist. Hell Is out of fashion In the best religious circles. rillHril ASD CLERGY. Rev. Horace R. Fell Is now In charge of Pt. Alban's church, New York City. A volunteer band of ten In Nebraska Wes- leyan Is ralBlng a fund to purchase a much needed conveyance for Miss Vrdell Montgomery In India, a former member of the band. Rev. Albert Sidney Gregg of the New England conference has been appointed field secretary of the International Reform bureau and expects to begin active duty on October 1. At the late commencement of Ohio Wes leyan university the degree of D. D. was conferred on the Rev. Byron Palmer of the Eust Ohio conference, author of "God's White Throne." Rev. Dr. Bernard M. Kaplan, rabbi of the BuSh street temple of San Francisco, received from President Roosevelt an auto graph copy of his California speeches for the benefit of the Bush street temple. Rev. Dr. C. Ellis Stevens has been ap pointed member of a committee of six ad mirals, four generals and four civilians to receive the body of John Paul Jones on Its arrival, and take part In the final ceremo nies. Bishop M. C. Harris Is having a splendid year in Japan. There were thirty conver sions recently at the South Japanconfor ence session, and the bishop's addresses were reported in full by the dally news papers. Warron A. 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