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WHEN OUT Or TOWS,
abserlbera leavlaa- the) city teas
peradly shoald kstt The Bee
mailed to them. It la better titan
a dally letter (rose home. Ad
dreaa will he changed aa oftea aa
resjaeated.
The Cubans are resuming their hahlt
lal revolver practice us an election urgu
oent Cieufuegos is supplying anew the old
xgument against popular government in
be excitable tropica. ,
Swedish farmers who are organizing
l "trust" have evidently decided that It
I better to be first to organise.
With the campaign formally opened in
)hio estimates can begin to be made on
be probable majorities, for it Is said
bat the tariff is again to be the issue.
With William O'Brien returned to ac
tive politics In Ireland subsequent de.
relopnients may make up In scintillation
hat they have been lacking In effective
less.
Prance and tiermuuy una Sweden and
Norway can all tell the uext .peace con
ference how much better it Is to pay the
ages of diplomats than the price of
rat-material.
Americans could have told the Hun
tartans that confusion was sure to fol
Sow fusion, but luckily the Hungarian
tuslonlsts have bad few offices to break
iheir concord.
If Japan is to continue to enjoy the
Tiendiy feeling now existing for it
iruong liberty loving people of the
United States, it must not emulate Rus
sia In curbing the freedom of the press.
Senator Tart has an advantage over
11 the other ostensible candidates for
the presidency. He has been able to put
Forecaster Orosvenor through a course
f training on the trip to the Philippines,
If the lusurauce compuuies do not
cake the water works tests now In
regress excuse for raising local rates it
vll! be evidence that a new man is in
t . . .
iharg of the rate-making branch of the
wmblnatlon.
ine address or senator I- oraker to
Dhlo republicans Indicates that Score
ary Taft will have some work to do at
tome before all the statesmen of his na
ave Death are lined up for the presl
lent railroad program.
It looks as if Alice Itoosevelt would
Have to charter a special steamer to
bring home All her presents from the
Orient, and another addition would have
to be built to the White House when the
presents reach Washington.
According to an enterprising business
man who has Just returned from Mexico
that country Is rapidly being Nebraska
Ised, which from the point of view of
Improved civilisation is much better
than to have Nebraska Mexloaulzed.
While It Is friendly of rruuee to sug
gest joint action of the United States
and Great Britain with that country
against Venexuela, It Is highly probable
that Uncle Sam will take bis own time
ud method of bringing Mr. Castro's re
public to time.
That Japanese captain who attempted
to commit suicide when his ship was de
ttroyed by fire evidently wauted to save
als country the expense of a Judicial In
quiry. It is to be feared, however, that
oriental Idea will never become populur
In America.
Evidently railroad malingers were not
onsulted when packing house officials
pleaded guilty to conspiring to receive
rebates, and the not unprecedented spec
taole may be presented of having one
party admitting guilt while the other
necessary party to the offense is pro
nounced Innocent
rruucjTT the tbvi remedy
The problem of tlie hour la the preven
tion of the moat flaernnt abuses by pub
lie rarriers and semi-public Institutions,
like life insurance companies and de
positories of trust fund. All the Inves
tigations that have heretofore been made
n tli management of railroads, express.
olograph and telephone companies that
control the arteries of commerce have in
variably shown that the worst abuses
from which their patrons have suffered
could have readily been averted by pub
licity. Searching and fearless publicity would
have lH?n a most efficient preventive of
rebates, drawbacks and other methods
by which one class of shippers by rail
road have loon favored and enriched
while another class has been disfavored
and impoverished. Publicity would have
averted the glaring discrepancies in
freight, telegraph and telephone rates L'y
railway, telegraph or telephone systems
n one section or region of the country
traversed by parts of the system and the
tolls exacted by the same system In an
other section of the country.
The limelight of publicity would also
have disclosed the extent to which the
railway, telegraph and telephone com
panies divert their earnings toward the
corruption of public officials administra
tive, executive and even somtimes Judi
cialand to what extent pass bribery
has sapped public morals of congress
men, state legislatures, city councils,
Juries and political nominating con
ventions.
Publicity enforced in the management
of life Insurance, Are Insurance and trust
companies, if carried on to the same
extent that It is enforced in the manage
ment of national ttanka, would have pre
vented the lawless and reckless dlver-
slon by the managers of Insurance com
panies of funds entrusted to their cus
tody and made it impossible for them to
enrich themselves at the expense of pol
icy holders by speculation and peculation.
Publicity of the relations subsisting
between syndicates organized by officers
of life insurance companies and con
ducted for their individual profit at the
expense of the policy holders would long
since have resulted in legislation that
would have safeguarded the patrons of
life insurance companies from the rapa
city of unscrupulous officials.
Burglars and housebreakers shun the
light and yie night watchman, and dis
honest corporation managers shun pub'
liclty and fear the strong arm of the law.
DEVELOFIhQ ALASKA-
There Is a growing Interest in the de
velopment of Alaska and there Is prom
ise of that portion of our territory receiv
ing a good deal of attention in the next
congress, ine visit to that portion or
bur domain of members of congress is
said to have solved the problem of rep
resentation in the house for this terri
tory. It Is expected that a committee
will be appointed by the speaker and
charged with the duty of taking care of
legislation for Alaska. In the past all
measures referring to that region have
been sent to the committee on territories,
but it Is understood that this will not be
the case hereafter and that consequently
Alaska Is pretty sure to get some legis
lation of a nature which will promote its
development. It is stated that Speaker
Cannon Is favorable to having some
thing done In this direction and will
doubtless appoint a committee disposed
to give proper consideration to the needs
of that possession.
Alaska has contributed very greatly
to the national wealth and its resources
have only been touched. Its yield of
gold for the current year will be greater
than ever before and there Is reported to
have recently been, discovered a supply
of copper of great value. Alaska is also
rich in coal, much of it of a very su
perior quality. The chief requirement
for developing the territory is railroads
and the attention of capital is being di
rected toward this. Probably congress
will be asked to do something for the
promotion of railroad construction in the
territory. What seems' well assured is
that this rich portion of the public do
main Is to receive more careful consid
eration than has yet been given It and
that it will become a still larger con
tributor to the wealth of the nation,
there being good reason to believe that
It has undiscovered resources of Incal
culable value.
rA'FBEACtl REPUBLICS.
Notwithstanding all the efforts our
government has made to assure the re
publics of South America of our friend
ship for them and our great desire for
their progress and welfare, there Is still
a feeling of distrust among their people,
whb-h In some of the southern republics
amounts to positive hostility. The fact
that the United States occupies the posi
tion of a protector of the southern repub
lics against any aggression oh the part of
European powers appears to have no in
fluence whatever with those states so
far as their relations with this country
are concerned. On the contrary they ap
pear to regard their European relations
as really more advantageous to them
than their American relations and con
sequently cling more closely to them.
There Is no doubt that today nearly
every country of South America feels a
greater friendship for Great Britain
Germany and trance than for the
United States.
It la not altogether easy to account for
this, In view of all that this country has
done In behalf of the southern republics
and Its many assurances of friendship.
yet u is not unaccountable wuen we
remember that those people are of the
Latin race and as such are widely dif
ferent frem us politically, socially and
religiously. The so-called republics of
South America are not in fact republican
In the American sense and consequently
cannot understand and appreciate the
political Ideas and standards of this re
public Our itollcles and precepts of
government differ in essential respects
from theirs, our prluclples of Interna
tlonsl comity are unlike theirs, and there
U a variance hi the character vf our
diplomacy. Our methods are distinc
tively Anglo-Saxon. Their methods are
distinctively Latin. There Is a very
wide difference a difference so wide as
to easily create an almost inseparable
obstacle to a really friendly understand
ing. What, tuon, is to be done? The
United States has, assumed and Intends
to maintain the position of a protector
of the republics of this hemisphere. It
Is atmolutely candid and honest in tak
ing that position. This Is recognized by
all the nations of Europe. .It ought to be
well understood by the countries south
of us, but Instead of having confidence
in our friendship and good will, so re
peatedly and consistently manifested,
they are distrustful and full of appre
hension. The fnct that there is no war
rant for such a feeling does not seem to
count. President Itoosevelt has sent a
special commissioner to South America,
a part qf whose duty It is to convince
the South Americans thnt this country
Is wholly friendly and has the profound
est Interest In their welfare. It Is to be
hoped that his mission will be entirely
successful.
THE MEAT FAMiy E iy QERMAVY-
Tariffs on food products have in all
countries and at all times succumbed to
the Irresistible pressure of empty stom
achs. A bread famine In Great Britain
In the early part of the nineteenth cen
tury not only caused the repeal of the
obnoxious corn laws, but forced Parlia
ment to substitute free trade for the pro
tective policy that had tip to that time
been successfully maintained in Eng
land. A tariff to stimulate home industry
and the fabrication of raw materials into
finished products of the mill and factory
has been successfully maintained in
many countries, while tariffs to prevent
the Importation of raw materials essen
tial in the manufacture of articles that
otherwise could not be fobrtcated in the
home country are, doomed to failure.
The basis of American protective tariff
legislation has always been to stimulate
the fabrication of articles we can pro
duce at home and throw the door open
as far as possible for the Importation of
needed commodities we cannot produce
in America.
An embargo against the importation of
American cotton by Geat Britain would
close the cotton mills of Manchester and
pauperize Its operatives, while a tariff
to prevent the importation of English
cutlery or' English woolen fabrics would
not materially affect the people of the
United States. For the same reason
Germany has not attempted to exclude
American cotton, American copper or
American mineral oils by a prohibitive
tariff.
Whether a reciprocity treaty between
the United States and Germany, de
signed to remove the barrier set up by the
landlord party against the importation
of American meats and meat products
into Germany is ratified or rejected the
inexorable law of supply and demand
will In the no distant future assert Itself.
The embargo on American meat prod
ucts has already produced a meat famine
In Germany. The price of fresh meats
and products of every description has
gone up so high that the German work
ingmen are compelled to feed on horse
flesh. When the supply of horse flesh
has been exhausted there win come
bread riots and socialistic uprisings that
will sweep the Agrarians out of the Ger
man Parliament' as a potential political
force and compel the repeal or revision
of all laws and regulations designed to
preveut and obstruct the importation of
foodstuffs Into Germany from the coun
try that is able to furnish the lurgest
supply at the lowest price.
THE TRADE OF THE ORIENT.
Mr. James J. Hill is of the opinion
that the orient is the future market for
the products of the northwest This Is
a view that he has been ver earnestly
urging and in connection with It he says
that In order to obtain the oriental mar
ket Americans need to Increase their
foreign carrying facilities and Jo cease
offending the Chinese. This refers to
our exclusion policy, in regard to which
the next congress will undoubtedly bo
called upou to take some action looking
to a more satisfactory arrangement than
now exists.
Mr. Grlscom of the International Mer
cantile Marine company, who has just
returned from a visit to the oriental
countries, says that the open door la that
part of the world will be maintained,
but that the United States, In order to
get trade there, must work' for It. He
expressed the opinion that, there is a
great big Hhare of the trade there for us.
but we must hustle to prevent otners
stepping in and taking it." That is a
statement which it would seem Ameri-
n manufacturers and merchants al
ready understand. They can scarcely
have failed to realize thut they are to
encounter in the far east a more vlgor-
s and formidable competition than
they have yet had to meet and that un
less they do put forth extraordinary er
forts they will inevitably be distanced
in the race for trade. The entire world
,ni7.. that within a few years
vviBU'" -
Japan will greatly increase hej Indus
tries and will muke a very much larger
i.i,t thm uhe has ever vet done for
Asiatic trade. She has an advantage In
position aud also in the friendship of
the Asiatic people. Great Britain, uer
many and France will put forth their ut
most efforts to acquire trade in the far
east. They have some advantage over
the United States in being able to convey
their products to those markets in their
own ships nnd under their own flags, an
odvantage which is fully appreciated by
the orientals. This very powerful com
petition the American people will find on
every hand In the orient and if this
country Is to get Its share of the com
merce In that quarter of the world It
will have to struggle harder than ever
It has done to secure trade elsewhere.
Mr. Hill was quite correct In saying
that to obtain the far eastern markets
Amerlcaus need to Increase their carry-
Ing facilities and to cease offending the
Chinese. Impending upon foreign ves
sels, as to n great extent we are now
doing, for the transportation of our prod
ucts to Asia, Is a condition which will
not advance our trade Interests there,
while our offensive attitude toward the
Chinese has created a sentiment there
which may prove seriously damaging to
our trade. We must bare more ships
under our own flag plying between our
ports and the ports of Asia and we must
treat China with bettor consideration
than we have shown for some years, If
we would not make of that country an
enemy and turn her trade to our com
petitors, every one of whom now stands
well in Chinese regard, We want as
much of the oriental trade as It Is pos
sible for us to get. We. shall obtain it
only by a policy that will strengthen
friendly relations ltween ourselves and
the people of the enstern hemisphere.
General Mandereon, who has Just re
turned from an European pleasure trip,
reports that King Leopold of Belgium
has great respect and high regard for
Consul Oneral Church Howe. What
Church Howe thinks of King Ieopold
has been tersely told end profusely Il
lustrated in one of the Septemtier num
bers of Leslie's Weekly. These recipro
cal complimentaries only Illustrate forci
bly the old adage that a prophet Is never
fully appreciated in his own country.
This applies to Belgium as well as Ne
braska. The motormau and switchman on the
New York Elevated railroad are de
clared to be responsible for the accident
of September 11, when twelve passen
gers lost their lives through the falling
of a car Into the street, but so far as
restitution is concerned the findings of
the commission that fixed the responsi
bility will have no greater effect than
those of the 'commission thot failed to
locate the responsibility for the horrible
accident to tlie Twentieth Century Lim
ited near Mentor some two mouths ago.
George W. Berge, late democratic can
didate for governor of Nebraska, de
clares that the people would have beeu
much more impressed with the sincerity
of Governor Mickey's action If he had
surrendered his railroad passes before
the last state campaign. But, suppose
he had done so, would It not have left
Mr. Berge with one less paramount issue,
and a corresponding decrease in votes
when the polls closed?
Six professors of the Imperial Japa
nese university have petitioned the mi
kado to desist from ratifying the treaty
of peace with Russia. In Japan as In
America and all other countries the non
combatants are always willing to keep
up the war and sacrifice all their wives'
relations If necessary, but no petition
against the treaty of peace has yet
reached the milcado from the Japs on
the firing line.
The democratic organs are blowing
hot and cold ubout Roosevelt. One day
he Is lauded to the skies as a courageous
and potrlotic executive and champion of
the common people and the next day be
Is belittled, ridiculed and roasted as an
erratic, egotistical dictator and usurper
who rough rides and leaps over constitu
tional hedges and barriers In reckless
disregard of the inalienable rights 'of
the people.
The British workmen advocating a
consolidation of the labor unions of all
the colonies are decidedly slow. .For
several years the American Federation
of Labor has had allied branches from
Manila to Porto Rico, and it has been
successfully demonstrated that the strike
follows the flag.
Popocratlc fusion in Nebraska has be
come a roaring farce. ..Nine-tenths of ail
the populists have resumed their old
places In either the democratic or the
republican party, and the remaining 10
per cent are old line greenbackerg who
Will never be reconciled to tbe existing
state of things.
As an off set to tbe Kansas assault on
the Standard Oil the price of Pennsyl
vania petroleum has been advanced
from 10 to 20 cents a barrel. That will
enable John D. Rockefeller to drop an
other nickel In his benevolent bureau at
the headquarters of the system at No.
28 Broadway.
Colorado newspapers announce thnt
railroads of that state are paying taxes
on 25 per cent of the value of their prop
erty while all other property bears tax
on 40 per cent of its real value. But
Colorado might look at . conditions in
otlier states before making too great a
disturbance.
Good Example Ignored.
Chicago Tribune.
The governor of Nebraska is wondering
at the promptness with which the other
governors are not following his example in
the matter of returning railway passes.
A Fitir Possibility
Baltimore American.
It Is predicted that people will soon be
living in glass houses. Either the habit of
throwing stones will havs to be broken
up with air brakes or there Is going to be
a tremendous lot of house-breaking.
A Vow Millions to I par.
Indianapolis News.
Rear Admiral Clark thinks the population
of China Is overestimated. In Ms opinion
there are not more than 200,000,000 Inhabi
tants In the entire empire. China seems to
have enough people, St any rate, to be able
to spar a few million emigrants every
year for the purpose of yellow Demising
the rest of the earth.
Don't Talk of Yonr Health.
Boston Transcript.
If you are not well don't talk about It. To
do so only exaggerates your consciousness
of physical discomfort. Also It casts
shadow of gloom over other people. They
grow hesitant about asking you how you
feel. It gives them cold chills to be con
tinually told that you are "not very well"
or "not so well" or "about the same." Do
you know that a good deal of this Is Imagin
ation! If you braced up ana told people
cheerily that you felt tiptop nine chances
In ten you would feel Up-top pretty soon,
you d foraat the ailing bsbiu
PF.RSOI 41, An OTIIERWHR.
Gaa at 60 cents la the campaign slugnn
In Indianapolis. Hooslcrs dislike to burn
much of their money.
New Jersey la striving mightily to get
back Into the union. Kirteen thoufnd
persons have pledged themselves to quit
wearing.
A full coal bin with the bill paid rivals
the Ideal Indian summer days In Infusing
an elasticity of spirit that makes life worth
the living.
If Ralsull, the Moroccan expert, would
emigrate to this section and kidnap the
kidnapers the country would rejoice and
rear a monument to his heroism.
Burglars raided the home of a federal
Judge In Chicago and made off with ll.fioo
worth of property. The audacious looters
didn't leave a clue on which to plant an
Injunction.
With the war and the boycott over the
Munchauscns of Shanghai are sorely per
plexed for topics wherewith to regale the
world. The only rift in the gloom Is the
probability of Colonel Bryan needing a
press agent In the orient.
The ungrateful community of Richmond,
Ind., where historic romance roosts high,
has notified Andrew Carnegie to cart away
his $15,000 library. The town refuses to
support an Institution which tolerates com
petition with the homemade article.
A St. Louis girl at last Is able to show
her envious sisters of other parts that she
had one proposal. A rejected suitor Is
suing her for $20,000 damages. How a
St. Louis girl could damage a man to that
extent Is a question for the Jury to wrestle
with.
New Tork goes Chicago one better In
domestic economy. Twelve dollars a week,
a reduction of 60 cents from the Chicago
limit, is the record of a New York man In
supporting two families. In Bplte of the
manifest heroism of the man the police
gathered him in for setting a pernicious
example.
The museum cf the Soldiers' Home at
Milwaukee has been enriched with a ticket
of admission to an entertainment given at
the residence of A. B. Van Cott In Mil
waukee, April IK, Ts65, to raise a fund for
disabled soldiers of the union army. Th
ticket waa the one used by Alexander
Mitchell, for which he paid IMO.
AMERICAN IVVEXTIOXS.
Prog-res of the Country In
the
Industrial Field.
Philadelphia Ledger.
During the fiscal year ending June 30.
1906, 62,323 applications for mechanical pat
ents were filed In the United States patent
office and 30.236 patents were granted. The
business of the office was the largest it has
ever done in a single year, and the t'nlted
States easily maintains Its rank as the most
Inventive country in the world. To Decem
ber 81, 1903, a total of 75S.523 patents had
been Issued by. the United States, nearly
half as many as had been Issued by all
other countries combined, and nearly 100,000
more than had been Issued by Great Britain.
Germany and France. Inasmuch as the
growth of manufacturing Industries la Inti
mately related to the increase in the num
ber of patents, the prosperity of the coun
try In one of its most Important activities
Is Indicated by the patent office statistics.
It Is related that the special commissioner
appointed by the Japanese government pome
years ago to Investigate the American pat
ent system declared to a federal official that
patents had made the United States a great
nation, and Japan had determined to es
tablish a similar system.
Nothing Illustrates more strikingly the
progress of the country in the Industrial
field than the records of the patent ofllco.
The first patent Issued under the act of
1790, establishing the federal patent system,
was granted for making potash, and the last
patent Issued at the close of the first cen
tury of the patent office waa for an electro
typesetting machine. We have advanced an
Infinite distance in the development of the
Industrial arts from 1641, when the general
court of Massachusetts granted a patent to
Samuel Wlnslow for a new method bf mak
ing salt, the first patent Issued by the col
onies; and from the time of Edward II, In
whose reign the first recorded English pat
ent was issued to "two friars and two
aldermen for an alleged discovery of the
philosopher's stone."
It was urged In times past In England,
where the modern patent systems origi
nated, that the privileges granted to a pat
entee were essentially monopolistic In char
acter, and came within the ban of the com
mon law. Patents were at first discounte
nanced by the English courts, but a clearer
construction of the common law relieved
them from the odium that attached to them
as a form of monopoly. "Patents should be
regarded In their true light of rewards dic
tated by sound public policy to meritorious
men who contribute by their creation to the
welfare of the country and of the world."
This Is the light In which the framers of
the federal constitution regarded patents.
Charles Plnckney proposed that the con
gress should be empowered to establish
"rewards and Immunities" for the promo
tion of agriculture, commerce, trades and
manufactures, but the constitutional section
In Its final form gave to congress the
power to promote the progress of science
and the .useful arts "by securing for lim
ited times to authors and Inventors the
exclusive right to their respective writings
and discoveries."
DID Resell SKO OWX CHICAGO f
Belated Demand for n Few Millions
for n dalt-CIalni.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The report comes from Uerlln that two
families named Kosciusko, living at Onesen,
descendants of the Polish national hero and
patriot, who assisted In the tight for Ameri
can independence, have In their possoston
papers showing that their distinguished
ancestor was by virtue of a congressional
grant the owner of a tract of land now
occupied by the city of Chicago. It Is fur
ther stated that the Onesen Koscluskos
have engaged a lawyer to prosecute their
Claims. They are understood to be willing
to compromise for 426, 000, WO marks, which Is
a modest sum. If they are the actual owners
of Chicago, for that hustling city's assessd
valuation Is as many dollars, and a dollar
Is worth more than four times as much
as a mark.
There may be hltcheB, however, when
the attempt to secure recognition for the
tardy claim Is brought to a test. Kos
cluako made a will in 1798, which he placed
In the hands of the author of the Declar
at Ion of Independence. By the terms of that
Instrument he left all the property of which
he might -die possessed to Thomas Jefferson
to be used In purchasing the freedom of
negro slaves and providing for the educa
tton of the members of the cr.lored race
Kosciusko died In 1817. In 1819. Jefferson,
then an ex-presldent of the t'nlted States
and in advancing years appeared In the
county court of Albemarle county, Va., pro
duced the will, asked to be excused from
responsibilities and duties as Its executor,
and suggested the appointment of tht
then secretary of the University of Vir
ginia to serve as executor in hia place.
The change was made. The executor never
put the provisions of the will Into
operation, because he could find no trace
of any property belonging to Kosciusko,
but he placed the will on file In the office
of the county clerk In Alberniarle county.
where It Is today.
The report from Oermany does not state
that the German descendants are In posas
slon of a later will. Litigations of Ihli
kind which they have set on foot often
make fat pickings for lawyers and nothing
but trouble for anybody sis.
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SERMOX9 IIOII.ED DOWN.
Every curriculum i..u.ii be tested In con
duct.
Some people are never grateful until they
get hungry.
It's no trouble finding short cuts to no
end of trouble.
Any religion is easier to describe than
to demonstrate.
The prayerful heart will be proven by
the practical life.
The cash register church makes but a
iioor record above.
The worst Infidelity Is to live as though
God had forgotten.
The noble life asks for more service In
stead of more servants.
It will take more than chicken piety to
save this world from sin.
You cannot get Into green pastures while
you herd with the goats.
No man can build his own reputation out
of the ruins of another's.
Riches are roots of evil only to the man
who has failed to ralso any.
True spirituality Is the ability to see the
altar In the washtub and the cookstove.
Small souls always think they have the
whole of religion when they get one thread
from its many colored garment.
SECVLAR SHOTS AT THE PILPIT.
p-ooklyn Eagle: The church congress,
called for the purpose of unifying the
Christian sects, can become of social and
political consequence If the representatives
will remember that they are citizens and
Christians before they are sectarians.
Philadelphia Ledger: A Chicago clergy
man has organized in his church a society
of "homemenders," the object of which is
to butt In when husband and wife are at
outs. It Is proverbial that such wellmftan.
Ing Intermeddlers generally have heads to
mend.
Kansas City Star: Wash Oladden's reso
lution against the acceptance of "tainted
money" was voted down by the American
Foreign Missions board, but Just the same
Mr. Rockefeller may count ten before he
makes any more contributions to the Con
gregationallsts. Philadelphia Record: American Buddhists
have congratulated the mikado on the tri
umph of Buddhism over Christianity In the
war, and now a Japanese Christian In an
address in New York says that the result
of the war will be exceedingly favorable to
the progress of Christianity In Japan and
on the continent of Asia.
Chicago Post: We Congregatlonallst
have decided that we shall do nothing to
Interfere with the free right of discussion,
and if we wish to talk critlclslngly of Mr.
Rockefeller or any other Baptist we shall
do so. This Is good sense within limitations.
Let us by all means continue to talk freely,
frankly and unreservedly, and let us as
frankly and unreservedly conclude the
whole matter by accepting the money. Re
member the main point; don't forget to take
the money. The more tainted It la the mure
reason for putting It to Its first good use
and prevent the donor from putting It pos
sibly to continued base uses. Speak gently
but firmly, If need be, to the giver. Chide
mildly the erring, even while taking his
money. Retain your constitutional privi
lege of free speech, but hold fast to the do
nation. More About the Superiority of
Toric Lenses Over Flat Lenses.
The object of wearing- glasses Is to
focus the rays of llglit so that they will
fall directly on the retina, or mirror,
In the back of tbe eye.
Ia the flat lens, at but one point,
the center of the leus, do the rays of
light meet the lens' surface at right
angles. Hence at all other points the
rnys of light are Imperfectly focused,
or deflected and lost.
Now, remember that the Torlc lens
curves as the eye curves.
Therefore, at every point the rays of
light meet tbe surface of the lens at
right angles. Hence the leant M)sslble
deflectiou ami loss of rays, and the fo
cusing most perfectly of a greater num.
ler of rays on the retina.
Hence the most aid to weak eyes, the
most perfect vision and the most eye
comfort It Is possible to receive from
wearing glasses.
Next Bunday we give another point of
superiority of Torio lenses. Come In
next week and Ut us fit you.
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DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"Isn't the bride older than the bride
groom?" "She was an Intimate friend of his grand
mother." "Mercy! how very wealthy she must be!"
Cleveland Pain Dealer.
'Of course, Cleorge," said the extrava
gant wife, "I'm obliged to you for the
money you gave me. but really It won't buy
roe tne rur coat i want.
"Well," replied the great brute, "you'll
have to make It go as 'fur' as you ran."
Philadelphia Press.
"I should think Mrs. Basy would ohleet
to her husband smoking so many rank
cigars. It gives him a dreadful breath."
"Oh, no, she uses It In place of moth
balls." Chicago Record-Herald.
"roes he pay his alimony promptlyT"
"No, he has to be urged and threatened
every pay day. But then, of course, I got
used to that when we were living together."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Been havliig trouble In the church choir,
have you. Uncle Bphr'mT
"Yes, suh; sort o' like. Bmddah Copley,
wot sines tennah. used to be de end man In
de Jubilee minstrels. He gits along all right
as a gen'al t'lng, but Wen lie gits exoitea in
de meetln' an' goes to slngln 'Blow Ye de
Trumpit, Blow," In ragtime, hit kind o' puts
de qulah out a lltle." Chicago Tribune.
Mr. X. Entrlek Bee here, young man, all
the other young fellows who called to see
Mabel before you never stayed later than 10
o'clock. andV
Mr. Mean well Yes, sir.
Mr. X. Entrick And I was going to say,
if you don't stay until 11 o'clock at least, I II
take It that your Intentions are no more
serious than theirs were. Philadelphia
Ledger.
DYING IX HARNESS.
John Boyle O'Reilly.
Only a fallen horse stretched out there on
the road,
Stretched In the broken shafts and orushed
by the heavy load;
Only a fallen horse, and a circle of wonder
ing eyes
Watching the frighted teamster goading
the beast to rise. v
Hold! for his toll Is over no mors labor
for him; . , M Al .
Bee the poor neck outstretched, and the
patient eyes grow dim; m .,
Bee on the friendly stones how peacefully
rests the head
Thinking, If dumb beasts think, how good
It Is to be di-ad;
After the weary Journey, how good it Is to
He
With the broken shafts and the cruel
load waiting only to die.
Watchers, he died In harness died In the
shafts and straps
Fell, and the burden killed him; one of the
day's mishaps
One of the passing wonders marking the
city road
A toller dying in harness, heedless of call
or goad.
Passers, crowding the pathway, staying
vour steps awhile,
What Is the symixil? Only death why
should we cease to smile
At death for a beast of burden? On,
through the busy street
That Is ever and ever echoing the tread or
the hurrying feet.
What was the elan? A symbol to touch the
tireless will?
Does He who taurht in parables speak In
parables still?
The seed on the rock Is wasted on heedless
hearts of men.
That gather and sow and grasp and lose
labor nnd sleep and then
Then for the prize! A crowd In the street
of ever-echoing tread
The toller crushed by the heavy load, m
there In his harness deud !
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