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THE 0MA11A DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER IWb. b Tim Omaiia Sunday Bee E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Psily Pe (without Pundsyl, one year..MW Dally Bee and Bunday. on year jllustruted Bee, one year t-W Sunday lire, one year 1W Saturday flee, one year 1W DELIVERED BT CARRIER, pally Be (without 8undv. per week. ..lie Ially Bee (Including Sunday), per week.Ke Evening Bee (without Fundav), per week.Sc Svenlng Hee (with Bunday). per week. ...10c Junnay Bee, per ropy Bo Address complaints of Irregularities In de-'-Ivrry to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha TV Bee Eliding. Pnuth Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs lfl Tearl Street. Chicago 1M) Unity Building. New York M4 Home Life ina. Building. Washington Ml Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and ed itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received aa payment of nail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 6TATEMENT CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.! C. C. Rosewater, secretary of The Be Publishing Company. being duly sworn, says that the actual numner of full and eomplete roplca of The Dallv, Horning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, 1906, waa aa fol lows: i S0.4O0 14 81. TOO Z i.... l,MO 17 Jt.IO I m.MO " U BO. TOO 4 SO.TUUt it RA.roo 80.TT0 20 83.410 80.S20 21 SO.MZO 7 SO.T.'IO 23 SO.VOO 8t.OOO 23 81.02O at.son 24 Ko.ono W 2t,BO 25 81,130 II 8o,oo w at.ono ' 80.T60 27 8O.0OO H SO.TIO 28 80.TTO U 80.8BO 29 3O.BT0 " 81,OBO SO 31.8IM) Total oae.sito Leas unsold copies... lo,ltii Net total salrs D1U.32H , iaiiy average . 80,544 . . C. C. ROSH; WATER, Bee y. Btibscrlned In my presence and sworn to before me this 80th day of September. 1906. (Seal) M. B. HL'NUATE, Notary Public WHE1 OCT OP TOWS, twbsertbers leaving; tha ly teas porarllF ahoald havo The Be mailed o them. It la better than dally latter from home. Ad dress will be changed aa often as requested The dispatch from Rome that Italian socialists are active will cause no shook at St. Petersburg. iTesldent ltoosevelt hH bra red the proud and chivalrous yellow fever mosquito In Its lair. Tfiotte French disclosures show that the time is ripe for Frauec to Join the advocates of perpetual pence. Current reiwrts indlcutc that the flereeot Russiun warriors stayed at home during- the trouble in the orient. The rejiort thut "Texas is for Roose velt" does not sound so strauge. since the reception of the president by the sontb. Fifty yeurs ago today the Omuba post oftice was located In tho crown of A. D. Jones bat, and Dr. Miller hadn't yet chloroformed the last papoose. Chinese Mho want to enter this coun try by crawliug under the tent as mer chants could no doubt truthfully say that they come to buy experience. The Pennsylvania courts draw the line at adulterated sausages. The only spurious article that will be tolerated in those parts is wire spriixr snusuge. UJeueral Trepoft" has conceded to Rus sinus the right to freely discuss current events, but the concession will bardly last longer than the bomb hold out. iTesldent McCurdy Is u believer in printer's Ink, and plenty of it, properly distributed and spread on the front page, top of column, between, reeding matter. Those fences erected ty the western cattle barous In western Nebraska would have bad to come down anyway to make way for the new railroads and the new towns. That accident to the snip bearing the president Is now attributed to the com mander of the craft. Ferhaps be was au "old salt" and lost his bearings In fresh water. A loan twenty-seven years old was found in a defunct Pennsylvania bunk. It may now I in order to attribute the failure to laxness In the collection de partment. The scarcity of eompeteut civil en gineers will furnish the paving con tractors with a concrete Imse for future claims against the city for damage on account of delays. With riots in Japau and ltussiu fol lowing the declaration of peace it is easy to see that neither party had its till of fighting therefore, more honor to the iower which stopped the war. The breweries have suppressed the srioous in Kansas located on the Kaw river within a few miles of Kansas City Just to prove to Governor Hoch that prohibition prohibits when the breweries re ou the side of prnhlMtiou. That lute Uerutun pamphlet ou the subject of proposed change in the rules of warfare should not be permitted to fall into the bands of the Hottentots or they might discover Justification for their most savage acts In battle. The latest Chlleau revolution has been suppressed in one day with a trifling loaa of ouly sixty persons killed aud 300 wouudnd. But the full particulars of the next revolution will be due by the suc ceeding steamer from Buenos Ayres, rnorr.ssws axd rr.nroRMASCt- While the republican party, with its courageous president, is rounding up the trusts and grappling with the problem of rallwny regulation, the sham trust busters of democracy of these parts are howling themselves hoarse over Rocke feller and Chancellor Andrews In order to distract and bufog the people of Ne braska and moke them believe that the republican partv Is the bulwark of predatory wealth. Rut parties, like men, are known ty their deeds rather than by their profes sions. Rockefeller has never been an Issue lti Nebraska, but national super vision of trusts, railroad regulation and railroad taxation have been au issue and will so continue to be until the Issue Is settled right. In Nebraska, as at Washington, the democratic performance has been glar ingly at variance with democratic pro fession. The fusion reformers, as they called themselves, were In full control of our state government for four years, but during all that period they failed utterly to carry out the pledges made to the people with regard to railway regu lation or railway taxation. The record made by our democratic and populist representatives in Washing ton is In keeping with that made by their state officials In Nebraska. Three years ago, for example, the following proposed amendment to the constitution of the United Suites was defeated in the house of representatives: 'Article XVI, Section 1 All powers con ferred by this article are extended to the several states, territories, the District of Columbia and all territory under the sov ereignty and subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States. Section 2 Congress shall have power to define, regulate or prohibit trusts, monopo lies or combinations, whether existing In the form of a corporation or otherwise. The several states may continue to exer cise such power In any manner not In con flict with the laws of the United States. Bectton 3 Congress shall have power to enforce the provisions of this article by appropriate legislation. On this amendment there were 154 yeas, of which 1D0 were republicans, and 132 nays, of which 130 were democrats and populists. The resolution failed to pass owing to the fact that n two-thirds vote was required upon a proposed con stitutional amendment, and its rejection waa thus accomplished solely by demo cratic votes. Whether this amendment, If passed by the bouse, would hove also received the necessary two-thirds vote of the senate is immaterial. The demo cratic party must be held responsible for the defeat of this amendment because its representatives in the house made It Im possible to pasg It, even had it received the unanimous sanction of the senate. ADVSES OF THE LAW. It Is one of the wholesome signs of the time that there la a very general and growing demand that something be done to remedy the abuses of the law. The subject has engaged the attention of some of our ablest Jurists, who have pointed out the defects and suggested bow they might be corrected, though as yet without producing any effect In hie address at Little Rock, Ark., President RooBevelt said: "There are certain abuses in connection with our whole system of law today which the laymen cannot remedy, but which I ear nestly hope thnt the men of the law will themselves remedy." He regarded it as unfortunate that we have permitted practices that were necessary three hun dred years ago for tho protection of in nocent people to be elaborated, to be perverted so that they become a means for allowing criminals to escape the punishment of their criminality. He ex pressed the opinion that we urgently need In this country methods for ex pediting punishment, for doing away with delay "methods which will secure to the public an equal chance with the criminal. If we can get an average of Just 60 per cent of the criminals we will be pretty nearly all right and we will give the public an even chance with the criminal whose offense Is against the public." The president declared that at present the right of appeal Is in certain cases so abused as to make it a matter of the utmost difficulty to ultimately puulsh a man sufficiently rich or suffi ciently influential to command really good legal talent. ' This Is a statement which could not le truthfully made as to any other coun try where there la respect for law and Its admitted truthfulness lu respect to the United States is a reproach which ought to arouse a general sentiment and a determined effort for correction, A former American consul to England, a lawyer by profession, pointed out the marked contrast between the administra tion of the law there aud here. In Eng land the trial of those charged with violations of law is expedited, techni calities that are allowed here aud which cause delay are not permitted there, yet It will scarcely be denied that administration of Justice is ou the whole as sound there as it is in this couutry. and far more sure. When the president of the United States says lu a public speech that be is unable to get at cer tain public offenders who have been indicted, some of whom it has beeu al most impossible to get into the Juris diction of the courts in Washington in order to try them, it needs no grvat wisdom to discern that something In our system of law is radically wrong aud that It should le corrected as soon as Hsihle. As was said by the presi dent, the abuses connected with our system of law cannot be corrected by the laymeu. It must be left to the men of the law, but while some of these have shown an earnest desire to apply a remedy and much In regard to the mat ter has beeu uttered at conventions of bar asNoclatloua, there is reason to think that the legal profession generally U not very greatly concerned about It. A good deal in the way of correcting buses could be done by the Judiciary, but Judges generally appear not to be disposed to do anything. Perhaps the president will in his annual message call the attention of congress to the subject and suggest how certaiu palpable abuses may be reffiedied. It is evident that be fully realizes the Importance of reform In tills direction. TUE MnRTliM MEMORIAL. All Nebra6kans honor the memory of J. Sterling Moitou. There is no intelli gent citixen of the state who does not appreciate the great service be rendered the commonwealth as the founder of Arbor day and through that the entire couutry. Having a profound affection for Nebraska his efforts were ever di rected to the promotion of its develop ment and few men accomplished so much in this direction. In one familiar aspect, of course, ho stood aloue and this distinction Justly entitles him to a place among the foremost of public beuef ac tors. What be did for the state in insti tuting the planting of trees as an an nual custom hns been followed by many other states and It would be Impossible to compute Its value. It gave him na tional and lasting fame. Mr. Cleveland's earnest and, eloquent eulogy of Mr. Morton will find hearty approval from every citizen of Ne braska. It was a tribute lu every way worthy of the subject and tho occasion. In the arena of statesmanship J. Ster ling Morton hud little opportunity, but the testimony of those who speak with authority is that he used that oppor tunity wisely and well. The duties that devolved upon him in bis brief public career the president under whom he served says were performed with ability, fidelity and conscientious care. It Is testimony that all will accept unques- tioningly. In honoring with a monu ment the memory of this distinguished son of Nebraska our people are them selves honored. In that it attests their sense of the debt of gratitude they owe him. The event at Nebraska City yes terday will constitute one of the most Interesting chapters In the state's his tory. It was In every respect a memor able occasion. POSTAL SATIXQS BANKS AOA1N. One beneficial effect of the pending In surance investigations is foreshadowed in a renewed Interest lu the movement for postal savings banks. Tho most dis graceful abuses uncovered in the insur ance shake-up are traceable largely to the fact that life insurance has come to be not only a guaranty of family in demnity in the event of death, but also a gigantic savings institution In which people have been persuaded to deposit their surplus earnings In expectation of repayment with Interest and dividends at a stipulated time. The Idea has been assiduously culti vated by the insurance promoters that insurance offers the safest and surest form of investment for a man's savings. As an offset, however, the distrust with which the graft disclosures have envel oped insurance is serving to emphasize the claims put forward by the friends of postal savings banks, namely, that the government owes It to the feople with a view to encouraging thrift and preventing dependence to furnish an ab solutely safe place of keeping for the hard earned savings of the Industrious citizen. It Is being suggested, even, that the government should Itself furnish insurance in connection with a postal savings system, copying after what has been done in this direction by some of the foreign governments. It Is possible that government Insurance against help lessness through old age or death may eventually come, but postal savings banks without the insurance feature would appear to be the first and most logical development. The demand for postal savings banks la unquestionably growing and the time seems more ripe now than ever before for legislation favorable to this project The insurance disclosures have ex ploded a great many of the arguments that re most effectively used to de feat i -tal savings bank legislation In the past, and Its opponents will have a hard time uow in finding solid ground to fctand ou. If we had postal savings banks today the wage earner's family would not be so alarmed over any threatened loss of Insurance because the widows and orphans would be lu posi tion to draw upon the savings bank deposit with Implicit confidence In the ability of the goverument to hand over the whole amount nromntlv on demand. KO DAfiQER FROM JAFAS Terhaps those persons who have been professing to see all sorts of danger to American interests from Japan will have their fears allayed by the official utter ances of the first secretary of the Ja panese legation at Washington, lu a recent public address. There Is no doubt that what be said was spoken author itatively that is, with an accurate knowledge of the sentiments of bis gov ernment. He declared that Japan has no deslgus on the Philippines. In this be alniply re peated what bad been said by other higher lu authority and whose disavow als should have beeu sufficient. Japan Is perfectly satisfied to have the United States as a neighbor, for since that rela tion has beeu established Japan has ex perienced no disadvantage from it. Her trade with the Philippines is larger to day than when the islands were under Spanish rule. Moreover, If Japan cov eted the archipelago she is in no posi tion to attempt to obtain it She has no money with which to buy it and she would ouly invite disaster by undertak ing to capture it. The absurdity of any apprehenslou of danger in this direction U obvious. In regard to the ojen door for trade in China it bus been urged that Japan would exert her iuuence to put au end to that principle. There Is no letter foundation for tills than for the other professed fear. Japan Is Irrevocably committed to the open door not only by repeated pledges, but also by the terms of the treaty with Russia. It ought to be perfectly clear to anybody who will consider the matter intelligently that even wlUiout these binding obligations Japan could not afford to Invite the hos tility of the western world by an at tempt to exclude any nation from trade with China. Any effort In this direction would inevitably lead to a union of western commercial uatious agalust her, and these would certainly exert greater Influence at Peking than Japan. It would seem, after all the assur ances which Japan bus given of her good Intentions, as to the sincerity of which there can be no reasonable doubt, that all apprehension regarding the future policy of that country in its commercial and International relations should be dis missed. Japan's interest is to maintain friendship with all the rest of the world and this she will do. WHERE IT ULHTS MOST. The rnft disclosures of the big in surance investigation is without ques tion inflicting untold Injury upon insur ance iuterests In this country, but it is abroad that it hurts most. News of this kind readily finds place In Euro pean newspapers and periodicals and European readers, who seldom see any thing iu the public prints to the credit of America, are ail too ready to believe that the dark picture Is not overdrawn. The president of the Chicago Board of Review, Fred W. Upham, returning from a tour abroad, has declared In an Interview that people here at home can scarcely realize the black eye the Amer ican commercial and financial name-bag received In Europe through the life In surance scandals. "These reports," he goes on to say, "have caused Europeans to believe thnt the average American business man is a 'con' man. They cannot understand how men who here oforc have held the. highest rank in public esteem have not hesitated to stoop to unblushing graft. I was told by European men of affairs that Amer ican enterprise would require years to recover from the damage." This is putting it pretty 'strongly be cause similar upheavals in European financial circles of the Hooley stripe would indicate that the standard of tusinesa honesty ubroad has flaws in it, too, but the necessity for us to do something to recoup the reputation of American business methods abroad will soon become apparent. Teople abroad have been led to look with suspicion upon American financiering, and it has been only recently that their confidence has been won. American financial meth ods are still in the probationary gtage so that setbacks, such as now expe rienced as a result of the insurance up heaval, react with specially disastrous consequences'. Were It not for the fact that in other directions Americans are forging to the front In the eyes of the world and in particular the lead taken In the peace negotiations that termi nated the Russian-Japanese war, the present "black eye" would threaten us as a permanent disfigurement. ao bcmax ririsECTios Chancellor E. Benjamin Andewg has seized upou the occasion preseuted by the meetlug of the international prisou congress at Lincoln to advocate anew human vivisection with life sentence convicts as the subjects. The idea is by no means n new one, but is received with no less revulsion uow than when it was originally promulgated. Much human life has, doubtless, been sacrificed in various ways to the ad vancement of science, but it has for the most part been unpremeditated and in voluntary. The healthy sentiment of the community, however, is no more ready, in the name of prison reform, to hand over the human body for scientific ex perimentation, even though it involves the life of only the vilest criminal, than It is to go back to the thumb screws and torture racks of the mediaeval dark ages. Chancellor Andrews may be person ally converted to the doctrine of the beneficence of human vivisection, but we do not believe he helps himself or the university over which he presides by advocating such a questionable re form. Tom Watson dresses down the ex premier to Grover Cleveland in the fol lowing fashion In the November issue of his magazine: Richard Olney, attorney general to Presi dent Cleveland, has come out for tho rail roads again. Being one of their very high priced lawyers, It was supposed that he would show up on that side sooner or later. Richard declares that if tha national gov ernment regulates railroad rates the rights of the statea will be usurped. 13ully for you, Richard! We will have to take you to the states' right side. Last time w heard from you, old boy, you were on the railroad aide, Just as you are now. Tha stats of Illinois don't seem to havo any rights which railroad cabinet officers la a democratic cabinet are bound to respect. Bryan is now probably unlearning in Japan what be preached and sought to teach before he started for Japan. Iu bis Labor day address in Omaha last September he expressed the opinion that Japau would have achieved all it was striving for by arbitration instead of war with Russia. His views after hav ing seen Admiral Togo and his victorious squadrou must have Impressed him with the idea that a little lighting is some times more effective as a persuasive argument than a g'xxl deal of diplomatic palaver. When Jules Verne made PL incus Kogg take an imaginary trip around the world In eighty days, thirty ears ago, the feat performed by his hero was regarded as a balloonatic pipe dream. But Harrl- mau's transit from Japan to New York In fifteen days surpasses all pipe dreams ever evolved out of the train of the most confirmed opium enter. Ex-Comptroller Intwes expressed the opinion at the bankers' state convention that the bulk of what we call common stock in the corporations in this country Is issued for the purpose of locating the control and not for the purpose of get ting fictitious prices from the public. Perhaps Mr. Dawes has never organized a railroad or a public utility corporation. This class of public service cororations notoriously Issue bonds to cover the costs of their lines and equipment and then Issue common stock on wind and water with the deliberate intent of ex acting tolls that will enable them to pay Interest on the actual money Invested and dividends on the basis of earning capacity for all thnt the trlc will bear. When the ships collided south of New Orleans It was wireless telegraph that gave assurance to the country that the president was not Injured aud tho American people accepted as a matter of course what a few years ago would have been considered preposterous guesswork. Roth I'hicairo conventions have de cided to send representatives to the national capital this winter to push railroad rate regulation bills, but It is safe to assume that one of them will not have to dig for expenses so long as the railroad slush fund hlds out. If, as alleged, poor copy Is the cause of so much needless expense in the pub lic printing office congressmen who de sire to appear particularly prominent before their constituents should see that their private secretaries are 1eter qual ified. King Feter has undertaken the edu cation of the crown prince of Servia on the theory evidently that no one else can so well teach him bow to retain his royal seat when Uie people become rest ive. American Influences Spreading.. Washington Post. Those Filipino brides of army officers arc getting divorce and alimony In a manner that Indicates they are more fitted tor self government than Secretary Taft would have us believe. One Invader ies a Fall. Indianapolis News. An American quick lunch enterprise In London has failed. It Is not stated whether the failure is due to the Britisher's respect for his stomach or his Inability to ride a stool and wear a monocle at the same time. Best of AU Colors. Baltimore American. In adopting for a national flag a yellow cross upon a blue field the Swedish Riksdag Is, at the least, artistic In selecting com plementary colors. Now, the Norwegian Storthing might do well to establish are publio and choose as compllmerttary the red, white and blue. 1 Mexico on a Gold Itasls. Philadelphia Record. Mexico's change from a stiver to a 'gold basis has been practically accomplished without serious financial disturbance. The fluctuations in the price of silver no longer disturb the rates of exchange. The risks of business have decreased. Imports have in creased as well as exports. There is also greater activity In mining, manufacturing and agricultural development. In fcplte of the failure of the wheat and corn crops, there is every evidence of wider prosperity and a confidence born of financial stability. National Anthem to Hatlonal Moale. Springfield Republican. It seems that we are likely to have a new and original tune to sing for Samuel Francis Smith's "America," and so relieve it from the duplication of "God Have the King" a matter particularly embarrassing 1 to passengers on ocean steamers on the Fourth of July. In fact, the music that ! two years ago won a prize from the Society of the Cincinnati of Rhode Island Is now in use by patriotic societies in various parts ! of the country, by military bands and In public schools. The air was composed by Arthur E. Johnstone of New York. Now let us have It everywhere. PROBLEM OP WINTER CLOTHISQ Admonitions from Experts Well Worth Heeding. Chicago News. In warning the public as to the need of proper precautions against pneumonia the health department takes timely' action. No one living in this climate can afford to Ignore tho advice it offers. Excess In the use of intoxicants, overeating and living In overheated rooms are dangerous prac tices. Frequent bathing, careful attention to the cleanliness of the mouth and teeth and a proper supply of fresh air are pre cautions no one should neglect. For persons of temperate habit these ad monitions are not difficult to observe. One subject, however, plainly deserves more at tention than has been paid to it. The prob lem of proper clothing during the winter months In this climate Is not easy to solve. From about the present time until late In tha spring tha average person of prudence goes about panoplied in several thicknesses of woolens. Having once put on his armor he dare not take it oil for fear of sudden fluctuations in the tempera ture. The thermometer may range from 20 below In January to tW above in early spring, but the clothing remains the same. That Is not the worst of It. The wearer several times a day must expose himself to Violent changes from the temperature of his steam-heated fiat or office to that of the outside ulr. He Is dressed so far as concerns underclothing with a warmth necessary to protection out of doors, but he must retai" the same clothing while In doors. The health department suggests that "light clothing, including underwear," b worn Indoors. Unfortunately, It Is not practicable In most' caues to make the changes of apparel which this advice im plies. Once swathed In bis flannels or woolens the wearer must stay In them for the rest of tha day and often sally out doors overheated and perspiring. The facts seem to Justify the question whether our whole custom of winter dressing does not need revision. For persons whose call ing keeps them indoors, at least, it would ueem a wise plan to keep all the indoor clothing moderately light, relying upon heavy outer wraps or overcoats to provide the necessary protection from outside tem peratures. Tha question la one which each individual must decide for himaclf, but hyglenUis and medical men should be abla to provide safe general rules. It may well be doubfl whether the average American's habit oi bundling himself up In flannels l ao afe a practice at he fondly supposes, j 14 USED ORGANS 14 We will sell you this week and will save you as much more as we ask for them. Bring this list and got just what it says: Chipping Orgnn. wnlnut case, scml-hlgh-top, 7 stops, ! swells. 5 f OO octuvea, fair shape ; IfciUU Mm son A Hntnlln, walnut case, Chnpcl orgnn, 10 stops. 2 swells, iq tf good shape IC7U Kimball Organ, walnut case, high top, 10 stops, t swells. Oft flfl tine shape aSO.UU Detroit Chnpl Organ, 6 stops, 1 swell. R flfl fair shape Western Cottage, Chapel Organ, walnut case, ( stops, 1 swell. ID Oft good shape IU.UU Kimball Organ, walnut case, high top, 10 stops, 2 swells. fill tine shape J'UU Western Cottage Organ, walnut case, high top, 12 stops, t swells. OR flfl as gnod as new aJ.VLf Burdclt Organ, walnut rase, 8 stops. 2 swells, IS 00 good shape lij YJYJ flmlth American Organ, walnut case, high top, 10 stops, 2 swells, in flf fair shape 1U.UU Kimball Organ, walnut case, high top, with mirror, 11 stops, 2 bwcII'OI) nrt as good us new OWiVU Illmms CJiapcl Organ, walnut case, stopa, 2 swells. U fill fair shape OtUU Smith American Organ, walnut case, high top, 13 stops, 2 swells, OCl OO gnod shape .JV Peloubot Organ, walnut case, high top, v stopa, 1 swell, U (Ilk fair shape O.liU Taylor & Farley Organ, walnut case, scml-hlgh top, 9 stops, 2 swells, tl good shnpo mJ.JVM A. HOSPE CO., 1513-15 Douglas St. A FIXE PLACE TO GET A FINE PIANO. SEOl LAR SHOTS AT THE PI LPIT. Toledo Blade: A Kansas minister hus re signed his pastorate to go on the stage. When a minister of the gospel receive that kind of call there Is room for the suspicion that it came over the telephone. Chicago Record-Herald: A Virginia preacher has been susendfd for six months for kissing a pretty girl. He would probably havo been excused If he had picked out some homely old lady with traces of a mus tache. Preachers who desire to kUa should always remember these things. Boston Globe: Perhaps the bright and breezy style of religious advertising does sometimes go a bit too far. For Instance, a writer In the current Atlantic speaks of seeing a few years ago at the door of a prominent religious edifice in Boston this notice: "Meeting at S p. m. Subject, Tho Unpardonable Sin." Bright and enjoyable service. All are Invited." Milwaukee Wisconsin: While Episco palian clergymen in New York were dog matically asserting that there are no women angels, a Milwaukee woman came to the relief of Chlaffarelll's stranded or chestra and has for several months financed It with entire success. Members of the amusement profession, with examples like this before them, will listen with incred ulity to the New York denial. Boston Transcript: The liberal attitude of most of the New England evangelical clergy regarding the exclusion of Unitari ans from the Church Federation is charac teristic of the general disposition of this section. It Is significant certainly that the most diligent guardians of the private road to heaven are residents of the graft-ridden sections of this country, where men for generations have been strong on orthodoxy and weak on everyday honesty. Chicago Chronicle: A preacher of some distinction lately delivered an eloquent ser mon urging the metropolitan churches to "invade the amusement field and furnish wholesome entertainment for the poorer classes." That Is Just what many of them have done and have been roundly taken to task therefore by their stricter brethren. Besides, the people they would reach obsti nately prefer to get their amusement else where. PERSONAL AXD OTHERWISE. Some men are born great, others have life Insurance salaries thrust upon them. The recent fights among the Syrians in New York prove the ability of this coun try to afford them all the comforts of home. The president of the wrecked Allegheny City bank candidly admits that he knows very little about its affairs. As yet he hasn't explained what he was paid for. Patrick Henry's immortal plea for lib erty or death must be classed as a back number. P. M. Parry has spoken. Mr. Parry Is an Indiana peach with the floss on. The business boom in St. Louis continues unabated. A bunch of rustlers working overtime with a dray carried oft a load of picked hardware from a store at night, without an order from the proprietor. A novelty in domestic harmony comes from romantic Padukah, Ky. Two sisters Indulged In a hair mussing match, and their father, as a lawyer, defended one In court and paid the fine assessed against the other. Pittsburg critics add some to the gaiety of the season by asserting that the express robber Is mentally deranged because he refuses to tell where the missing $10,000 of tha loot is. Here Is where the laugh comes In for CunlifTe's lawyers. A minister of tho church militant ob served a fellow passenger on a train bound for Cincinnati abuse and strike his wife. Whereupon the minister gently re proved the slugger by decorating both eyes with the tints usual on such occasions, while nimble passengers contributed shoe leather to the Impressive exercises. Ever since the American Press Humor ists' assoclutlon made John V. Rockefeller an honorary member the oily old man has enjoyed life as never before. He has taken quarters on the sunny side of the street, preaches as one whose heart overflows with kindness for his fellow man, and chats merrily with friends and neighbors. The genial wand of mirth made him a new man and he Is determined to enjoy the gaiety of life to the limit. Remarkable as the transformation appears, Johnny is rushing for a fall. He has applied for a license as a chauffeur. WiJe Vision Lenses. HUTESON OPTICAL "Tone" 4W Lenses ESTABLISHED IS96 SKRMOS BOILED IM)V. The fruits of sacrifice become the roots of love. Gladness does not need the robe of gaudi ness. You do not lift another's burden by treat ing it lightly. Whoever has a mind to work will have s work to mind. You cannot expect meaty sermons on a dry-bread salary. The only love that is wasted is that which is paid out. Meekness does not buy mastery at the cost of manliness. A man can be tender hearted without being putty headed. Learning the duty of happiness, we dis cover the happiness of duty. Sisterllness is easily mistaken for sancti flcatlon by the man who has it. No heart is rnore hungry than the one that follows for the loaves alono. The curse of the impure heart is that it can only see the things of the night. You cannot tell the depth of a man's wisdom by the intensity of his silence. When a man Is long on cowardice he it sure to try to pass It oft as conscience. When a man really believes Ood ho does not die of worry over the stock market. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Man I'd hate to have a gril refuse inc. Girl Then you must never propose to one Somervllle Journal. Him Do vou think women ahmtl,! Iiuvm the privilege of proposing? I Her Emphatically not. j Him Why not? i Her And give them the privilege of re-fusing? Never. Cleveland Leader. Jasper What do you suppose your father will say when I speak to him? Beryl (sure of him now) He won't say anything He'll be speechless with Joy. Chicago Tribune. Knlcker Btrange they didn't nam the baby after It rich uncle. Bocker No; he looked at it and said he'd give them HO.OoDjiot to. Harper Bazaar. "He" very handsome, but so poor." "Yet you are going to marry him?" "Yes.'" "What a union of exact opposite that will be. He is handsome and poor and you are rich and kind hearted." Cleveland Plain Dealer, i "See here, May," said Jack to hi maa nlsh sister, "I don't mind your Inroads upon my haberdashery, but you might at least give me a testimonial letter." "How do you mean?" eh demanded. "Well' you might say something like this: "Dear Jack: Since using your shirt and collars I am a new woman'," Phila delphia Cathollo Standard. "Women are hard to understand," said the callow philosopher. "Not at all," said Mr. Meekton. "Hen rietta has never yet spoken her mind to m ' without making herself p refect I y clear." Washington Star. ( "Henry, If I were a young man like you, and expected to have to make mv own way in the world some day. I should try to make my exensea come within my Income." "Father. If I were as rich a you are, and had only one son, I'd try to make hia Incomo up to his expenses," Chicago Trib une. 0. HALLOW EVBv Minna Irving In Leslie' Weekly. She put the withered grasses by And raised the mossy atone. Above her, through the Hying, clouds. The moon of midnight shone. A hooded shape of pallid mist She sought the olden ways, And paused before the house wherein Were passed her wedded day. From lighted windows came the sound Of revelry and mirth. Where merrymakers sathered round A brightly biasing hearth. She saw her husband through the pan. And nestling at his side. With roses in her golden hair. His new and lovely bride. She glided through the darkened hall And up the winding stair. The nursery door was open wide, The crib it still was there. Upon a crumpled pillow tossed Her baby's tangled curls; 'Dim n,u,n ultttnu it, iin.n 1.1m too And changed them into pearls. She pressed the little grieving mouth With kisses thin and cold, She wrapped him in the chilly mist v nirn wag ner mantle s fold. "His father has a bride," she said, To keep him company. But I tun left to sleep alone; The child shall come with me." 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