Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, November 19, 1905, EDITORIAL SECTION, Page 2, Image 12
Till: OMAHA DAILY TIEK: SUNDAY. NOVEMBKH 19, 1905. Tim Omaiia Sunday Bee E. ROSKWATER, EDITOR ri'BLI8!IED FAERY MORNINU. TERMS OF 8CP8CRIPTION. Psily Bee twthout Kiinday), one year.. $4 00 Daily Bee unci Sunday. one ye' ' lllus' rfod Bee, our year J Sunday Bee. one year J Satuiuay He, one year 1 w DELIVERED BV CARRIER. Dnllv Pee (Without Sunday), per week.. .120 Iinilv Bee llmludlng Sunday), per week.l7o Evenln Bw (without Sunday). P'r week c Evening Bee (with Punday). per week....l0 , bunoay Bee, per ropy Address complaints f Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICE8. Omaha Tho Be" Palldtng. Houth Omaha City Hnll Building. Council ni!if-10 IVarl 8treet. rlilrago 164A Pnity Building. Nw York iron Home Life Ins. Building. Washington id Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and ed itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha B e. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee 1'iilillshing Company. Only 2-rent stamps received a payment of mall accounm. Personal checks, except on Omaha or esetern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. : C. C. Roaewater, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, belnc dulV aworn, says that the actual number of full and complete Ponies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Siinrlav Bee printed during the month of October, 1106. wu as fol lows: 1 aa.ioo 2 RO.TOO t .tn.noo 4 81.320 t 81,220 ai.fizo T .12,410 17 an.flno 10 30.0,10 19 so.ooo 20 ao.oito n 31.B10 22 2tMBO a ."W),7o 24 SO.IMrO 26 31.100 26 30.MS0 27 ! 80,910 ... ... 10... n... 12... 13... 14... !.'.. . SO.02O 8i,o:to 31,1M ni.ioo ao.Tio BO.NO Sl.HIO :ui,4no UO.70O 28 31.W10 29 30,700 30 31,000 31 30.1MM) 16. Total 9WSI.H40 Less unsold copiea 10.951 Net total sales W)a.S4 Dully average 30,717 C. C. ROSE WATER. Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to bef re me thin 31st day of October, Hit. (Seal 11. B. HUNGATE. Notary Public WIIE OCT OF TOWS. Subscribers leaving the city tern, pornrlly should huve The Uee mailed lo them. It la better than a dally letter from home. Ad dress will be changed aa often aa reqaested. The restless Isle of Tines must sleeping on n bed of pine needles. be Senator Millard has gone to Washing ton to bo officially Interviewed on the railroad rate question. Coreans will soon have an opportunity to show Russians how to undergo a change iu government without going Into spasms. If the dowager queen of Italy wants I to visit tlie United States Incognito she to the scrutiny and judgment of three can be accommodated providing she can courts, namely, the United States dis keep a secret. , trlet court, the appellate court and the. Now thnt the Sioux chiefs at the Win nebago agency have taken to automo biles their civilization may be consid ered an accomplished fact. If it cost Hearst only Sttf.000 to make his mayoralty campaign, how much did Tammany have to cough up to pull Mc Clellan through on the face of the re turns? The British liberal party has one ad vantage over the democratic party of the United States. If It has no program of its own, neither has the party In power. Prom the fact that most of the appli cations for positions as paymasters In the navy came from inland states, It must be a case of distance lending en chantment to the view. All the members of the Nebraska dele gation In congress would like to have better committee assignments. But so would all the member of all the delega tions from nil the oilier states. I he question of who first named Charles of Denmark for the Norwegian throue Is causing as much discussion In Europe as though tlie place of court favorite depended uoon Its answer. Since General Chaffee has decided that there are not enough officers in the army, those on the rolls will be doing n double duty to the government by avoid ing being cashiered fr Irregularities. The chief of the bureau of Insular affairs testifies that tiovernor Mm goon is "the right man in the right place." Now won't Governor M a goon please re ciprocate for the insulnr bureau chief. So far it has been impossible to so alHrui Congressman Hepburn over his political future as to reduce his activi ties at Washington and he promises to start his "rate regulation bill" on its second heat as soon ns coneress meets. Should limitations be placed upon the lolitical rights of men who desert from the United States army it would still nanny arreci me nuuiner or voters, as Ihe deserter usually does uot stav long mouth In cue place to acoulre local re!. deuce. Norway's new king Is to receive a sal i.ry of $40,000 a year. That Is by all odds the cheapest klug any European iimi'urcby can boast. We appreheu I, however, that It will not be long before the uew vlgiug will ktrlko for a raise iu salary. The foot tall department of the Uul verslty of Wisconsin is iu u ferment over public charges of athletic graft, which touches the integrity of several of Its star players. The campaign against graft evidently does not have to .tuuiue Itself to the field of politics or Ujs realm of life insurance high flnauce. A STAOUKttlXIl COMPROMISE- According to Infest Washington ad vices, administration lenders fire stag gered alKuit a compromise of the rail road rute liK'lit, which Is offered to Presi dent Koosevelt by lending rnllroiil olli clals, tni-luillng I'resldetit Otssatt of the Pennsylvania, President liner of the Heading system nnd President Mellen of the New York &. New Haven railroad. Tlie compromise Is said to be no much of ft concession ns to appear a surrender and since no one lelleves for a minute that there Is to be a railroad surrender much Interest exists In figuring Just what tills new twister means In an In tricate game. The proposition Is: Authorization of a railroad rate commis sion, consisting of nine expert railroad men and lawyers at $12,000 a year, the commis sion to have power to, declare a rate ex cessive and to name a rate In substitution, that rate to stand unless enjoined by a court and the railroads to have -he right to carry the case, as far as the United States supreme court If necessary. It does not take a long-distance mind- render to foresee that the president will not be taken off his feet by the proffer of this staggering compromise. Theo dore Roosevelt knows a hawk from a hnud-snw. He caunot fall to realize at a ghinen thnt what appears to be a gen erous concession Is merely a tempting bait, and what appears to be a surrender Is lu reality a benr trap. Tersely stated, thi' president's position has been that congress shall empower the Interstate Commerce commission to Investigate complaints of alleged excessive or dis criminative freight rates, and If after full hearing the complaint Is found to bo well grounded to declare such rates unreasonable and substitute therefor a lower rnte, which Is to go into effect within thirty days thereafter and remain In force until set aside by the courts. Hie main object to be achieved by this proposed legislation Is to afford ppeedy relief to shippers who are being overcharged, or localities thnt are Buf fering from discrimination. The posi tion of the railroads has been: 1. Thnt Interstate railroad rate-rank- lug Is not among the powers conferred upon congress by the constitution. 2. That even If such powers have been conferred congress cannot delegate these powers to any administrative body, but must fix the rates by law the same as It does tariff schedules. Lastly, If congress does have tlie au thority to delegate the rate-making power to a commission, the railroads strenuously object to the enforcement of a rate established by the commission until its decision has been reviewed by tlie federal courts and by them pro nounced just and reasonable. Manifestly, the cleavage between the president and the railroads has been .with regarl to the enforcement of the aew rate before It has been subjected supreme court. , The staggering compromise Is a con cession Insofar as the railroads admit that they are willing to abide by what they call an unconstitutional exercise of power by congress, and are wlllinsr to walve thelr objections to usuroation of c,lgresslonal powers by the commission. The proffered concession Is a trap In that It professes a willingness to waive objections to railroad rate-making by a commission, provided that the amended Interstate commerce act will permit them to nullify every order of the com mission establishing a rate by Injunction proceedings that will begin In the lowest and end In the highest court. This, In deed, would be a staggering compro mise. Divested of all needless verbiage it means an almost unconditional surren der of the vital Issue in the campaign for railway regulation. It goes without saying that by the acceptance of the compromise the extension of the powers of tue commission would be of no prac tical advantage eltlier to the commission or to the public. Every material reduc tion in rates which the comlnlsslon would attempt would be Immediately met by a judicial restraining order to prevent its enforcement and the relief would be postponed almost Indefinitely, The proposed higher nularied commis sion made up exclusively of railroad ex perts and lawyers is apparently a clever scheme to get rid of the present com mission nnd substitute for it nine safe meu who cau be depended upon not to seriously interfere with the harmonious relations that now subsist between the favored shippers and the railroads. With the present commission legislated out of office the alternative would be presented for the president to appoint men satis factory to the corporations who would pass the ordeal of confirmation by tho senate or to leave the commission va cant until some other president shill present names satisfactory to the saga cious concessionaires. THS TARIFF OX ART. Congress will again be appeuled to by the friends of art to remove the tartfT on pictures, statuary and other wdrks of art Imported into the country. The re- l,lest tor ,uU La been made many tl"us. but it has never met with much favor, chiefly on the ground that works of art are a luxury and therefore should pay duties unless intended for public exhibition or for the benefit of I the people at large. All art works of I whatever character that are to l used I for the Instruction or benefit of the gen I eral public are udmittcd free The American Free Art league has be gun a propaganda looking to the re inoval of the tariff duty on all works of art and it is supiortcd in this by all the artists of the country, who with hardly au exception are of the opinion that the tariff In tills respect uot only is of no advantage to the government but is ai actual disadvantage to the cause o I Auiericau art In all respects. It Is a fact which ought to hnvc no little Influ ence that there Is not an American art ist of standing who is In fnvor of main taining tlie tariff on works of art. Pre vious appeals lo congress in regard to Uim have not met with much favor, but it I. possible that thn fifty-ninth con gress will take a view of the matter (llfltrent from Its predecessors, it niHy to remarked that the tariff on art is not a source of very much revenue. XO DfMMV nriiEcTons. The circular letter recently Issued to policy holders of the Equitable by ex President Cleveland chairman of its Hoard of Trustees Inviting them to as sist In the selection of h board of thir teen directors cither by submitting the names of representative meu qualified for the performance of the responsible duties devolving upon them or by for warding proxies to the trustees that would empower them to muke judicious selection for them, deserves more than passing notice. It is n matter of notoriety that the re organization of the Equitable under its present management was brought about by an internal convulsion followed by disclosures that forced the retirement of the old regime both In the Interest of the policy holders and of the stockhold ers. It goes without saying that popu lar confidence In the management of the Equitable cannot be fully restored tin less the entire system that has brought the company into discredit undergoes radical revision. Above all things, the affairs of the association must be con ducted in broad daylight and every in vestment the trust funds and every expenditure not only must be subject to scrutiny of the president and execu tive committee, but tlie board of direc tors must actively participate In the su pervision and administration of the com pany's business in the Interest of and for the protection of the policy holders. With this end in view the new board should be made up of men familiar with business affairs and, moreover, men vig ilant and quick to detect wrong doing and courageous enough to sound the alarm whenever they discover some thing wrong. On behalf of the policy holders in the Equitable residing in this section of the country, and especially those residing in Nebraska, The Bee would suggest that steps should be taken with n view to an expression of their preference for representative busi ness men in the makeup of the new di rectory. This should not be done by a snap Judgment meeting of a handful of policy holders, but by a gntherlng In which at least a majority of the policy holders In the principal cities of Nebraska are rep resented. It would be far better that Nebraska and western Iowa have no representative among the directors than that the policy holders in the Equitable be misrepresented by n mere dummy. IX nosrcif. Municipal politics Is so much the same from one city to another that the news paper announcements of the cnndldates contesting the preliminary primary cam- mlgn in Boston lost week read famll- liarly enough to pass as at home almost anywhere. In behalf of one of the as pirants for republican nomlnatiou, for example, it Is declared: His strength lies In the respect nnd con fidence of the masses of the republican party who are disgusted with the state of affairs existing at the present time at the City hall and alarmed at the mere thought that It might be possible under any cir cumstances that either of the two men contesting for the democratic nomination could be elected mayor of our great mu nicipality. But the two men contesting for the democratic nomination tire no more con tent to hide their lights under a bushel. One of them propounds In big type the question ns to his own identity and then proceeds to answer it in smaller type: He la the same gentleman today that hi was when lie became interested in pontics for the benefit of the democratlo party some twenty years ago. His character la unchanged. His honesty and Integrity are unquestioned by all who know him. His word Is his bond. In twenty years he has grown In knowledge of state and municipal affairs and has served the commonwealth and the municipality to the best of his abilities. During this long period his public acts have been strongly approved from time to time by the press and his honesty of purpose lias never been questioned. In the midst of a heated mayoralty campaign, therefore, It Is puerile for exWtod politi cians to endeuvor to take away 'lie credit already awarded him by the public and press for his work as a servant of the people. The other democratic candidate, how ever, disputes In his appeals the unques tioned integrity of purpose of his oppo nent and sees nothing puerile In at tempts to discredit the other fellows. He exclaims: Democrats, bear In uilnd it will be suici dal to nominate for mayor u candidate whose public and private character will not stand the minutest scrutiny. And he modestly admits that he him self Kmbodles all the qualifications rssentlal for the great offlce of mayor of Hoston unquestioned honesty demonstrated nblllty proven executive cupm ity. He btand squarely For municipal ownership of public utili ties. Kor the Immediate establishment of a mu nicipal lighting plant. For compelling corporations to slve fur ther and adequate compensation for all public franchises, thus lightening the taxes of our cltliens. With the people. Against the corporations. We are sure some if not all of the can didates would have prom'.scd the imme diate compulsory purchase of the water works were It not that Boston already possessed and operated its own water apply plant. Except for this notice able omission, the picturesque literary cai'ipaigu might readily be trausplauted from Bostou to'Oinaha without dotting an t or cror.siug a t. Harper's Weekly remarks ihnf' It would not have predicted Mayor (c Clellau's re-election had it kuowu that Itourke Cockran were going to get home In time to support him. If anyone In public life has tlie fatuity to land on the wrong side ns often as Itourke Cochran he should come to the rescue by speak ing out. A. IMMIVRATIOX f O.VFr, R EA Early next month a national confer ence on immigration will be held In New York, under the auspices of the Civic Pederatiou. It is stated that tlie conference will be representative of all parts of the United States. The gov ernors of nearly all the states have named delegations and there will attend also representatives of chambers of commerce, boards of trade lu Important cities, labor organizations and economic, ecclesiastical, agricultural and other bodies. Every aspect of the immigra tion question is to be taken up at the conference and there will also be' an In vestigation of the methods employed at Ellis island. While It is hardly to bo expected that the conference will throw any new light on the immigration question, which Is Just now of rather more thau usual in terest because of the large number of foreigners who are comlug Into the coun try, it will serve to indicate what the sentiment of the country is on the sub ject and this will be Important. It Is very probable that as to the eastern nnd some of the middle states their rep- tresentatives will advocate additional restrictive legislation, while those from the western and southern states may be expected to urge that the existing regu lations, if rigidly enforced, are suffi cient. The law now in force, enacted in 1801, excludes Idiots, Insane persons, paupers or persons likely to become a public charge, persons suffering from a loath some or a dangerous contagious disease, persons who have been convicted of n felony or other infamous crime or mis demeanor Involving moral turpitude, polygamists and also any person whose passage Is paid for with the money of another or who Is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively nnd satis factorily shown on special inquiry that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes. What more can be asked or expected. It Is nn unmistakable fact that every alien who has come to our shores In the last two years Is nt this time absolutely assimilated with our population and a part of the working element of our pop ulation. Grant that these people do not fully understand our political nnd social institutions. Grant that they are uot just the people that we would like to have with us. Still they are essential and Important as a part of our material and economic welfare and for that rea son are to be welcomed and given every possible encouragement. The national conference on Immigra tion may or may not take this view of the matter. It Is Impossible to say what position It may take or what It may recommend. But in any event it Is a safe proposition that the almost unani mous sentiment of the country Is In favor of admitting to our shores nil peo ple who are capable and willing to be come American citizens. TO AVERT A TARIFF WAR. The tariff Issue between Germany and the United States Is of such command ing Interest nnd importance that the matter is recognized on both sides ns one of the most vital that has ever been presented between the two countries. As a matter of fact, nothing Of an eco- r.omie nature has ever occurred between this country aud auy foreign nation that has ever had a more Intimate and vital Interest to our commerce than thla "con troversy thnt has been ralRed by the at titude of the German government to ward the trade c f this country with that empire. It is announced that Secretary Root Is giving the most careful attention to the tariff relations between the United States and Germany and thut he Is pre pared to do whatever cau be done to bring about conditions which will avert unything in tlie nature of a tariff war. The German government seems to be equally anxious to avoid any conflict that will militate against the most friendly commercial relations between the two countries. Such being the case, there would seem to be the most satis factory prospect of an arrangement be ing affected which would result in an u'tlnate agreement that would do away with all controversies nnd establish an ugreement in every way fair and Just between the two countries. We need the trade of Germnny, which is lame and profitable, aud to an equal extent Germany needs our trade, from which that country derives great bene fits. A tariff war would result In in- Jury to the commerce of lioth countries end consequently each is anxious to do all In Its j'ower to avert .uch a conflict. Germany Is showing u willingness to come to terms that will be advantageous to lioth countries. It remains to le seen whether the United States will be equally rtYposcd to make the conces sions necessary to avert n. tariff war. The galvanized corpse of the order styling itself the National Grange, or Patrons of llustmndry. has just con cluded n protracted wake at Atlantic City made iiieuuiralile chiefly by the emission of hlirh-somnliug platitudes and mystic mummery. The self-styled Pat rons of Husbandry, who are for the most part retired lltlc!iins whose pastime consists iu whittling sticks in front of country gns-cry stores, scored dishon esty iu polities, denounced oleomar garine, rousted insurance graft, pro claimed war upon adulterated drinks aud concluded Its lalsirs with Initiations In the seventh degree. As a reminis cence the galvanized grange of ratrons of Husbandry carries us back to the de- funct greenback party with Its fiat money propaganda and the crime of '"'. Thirty years ago It flourished In the great prairie states like a green bay tree and closed its spasmodic career In Ne braska with that dauntless champion of autl monopoly, Church Howe, in the role of Its last grand tnasilsr. The closing of the railroad publicity bureau through which the railroads have sought to counteract the public senti ment that Is backing the president In his demand for railroad rate regulation Is no sign that the railroads have given up the fight or even ceased to exert themselves to mold public opinion by artificial means. The railroad maguat js are nothing If not resourceful and it Is possible and probable that the abolition of the publicity bureau Is only n blind to coer up some shrewd manipulation in an entirely different direction. The friends of the president's square deal must not allow themselves to be put off watch or to be tricked by any wily rail road ruse. Judging from the iierfunctory legal notices that appear in nondescript news papers published in and arouud Omaha, the divorce business is one of the most flourishing Industries Nebraska cau boast of. In fact. It is now known far nnd wide that Nebraska affords better opportunities for procuring divorces on short notice and without publicity than South Dakota, which for ninny years has carried the banner for the divorce mills. It Is n burning shame that the courts of this state should have stimu- lated the divorce industry and given it all the aid nnd comfort that their discre tion under the existing fast and loose divorce law will permit. According to William It. Henrst'H sworn statement, his campaigu expenses in running for mayor of Greater New York amounted to slightly over $05,000. But wo may easily Infer that this rep resents only a small fraction of the amount distributed nmong the leg pul lers. Candidates In these parts rarely return more than a small percentage of their outlay. The supreme court of Montana hns declared the Montana nntl-trust law un constitutional, because It Is class legis lation. Under this ruling an nntl-pass law, or a law prohibiting city, county nnd state treasurers from pocketing the Interest on public funds, would.be class legislation of the- very worst sort. The railroads have voluntarily dis mantled their literary bureau; the Mc Curdys have voluntarily reduced their own salaries by one-hnlf nnd the Ne braska grain combine has voluntarily gone to pieces. What are we coining to next? A Domestic Square Deal. Somerville Journal. Every husband ought to make his wife a regular allowance. Every wife, you know. Is constantly making allowances for her husband. Let Is Be Thankful. Philadelphia Press. The president of one of the big New York life Insurance companies Indignantly de nies that his salary Is $100,000; It Is only a beggarly J90.000. The difference goes to the policy holders, of course. On m Peace Footing. Chicago Record-Herald. Secretary Bonaparte proposes to stop the prlzo fighting at Annapolis. A cadet was killed In a prize fight at Annapolis not long ago, which shows that prize lighting i is sometimes as dangerous as foot ball. ; The secretary's decision is, therefore, to be ! commended Horn of Plenty (Mrrllonlnt. St. Louts Globe-Democrat. The horn of plenty bestows on the United States this year a banner corn crop ex ceeding 2,700,000,000 bushels. One feature of the vast harvest Is especially encouraging to farmers, and that Is the Increased yield per acre, amounting to four bushels over the average for the preceding ten years. Who Wants ( heap Insurance? Pittsburg Dispatch. Mr. Paul Morton asserts thut the peo ple do not want cheap insurance. Whether they do or not may depend on the defini tion of the term. But what Mr. Morton can tie to is that the policy holders want all the reductions In cost In the form of dividends, annual or accrued, that the con tract calls for. Count Wltte's Vindication. Cincinnati Enquirer. Wilte, who was the main reliance of the czar in the negotiations of peace with Japan, and who has been relied upon to rescue Russia from the Indignation of her people. Is the same Wltte who was humili ated by the czar less than a year ago, and who waa more recently sneered at by American writers. It appears now that Wltte has a considerable degree of vindi cation. He stands In the light of one of the necessities In human affairs. PKRSONAI. M OIHKHWISC Life insurance garricd as good clubs. magnates are not re risks for Don't Worry New York society has several busy days ahead. After the horse show comes a hen convention. Reports from New York Indicate that pople caught with the goods on are anx ious to be good. Holders of life Insurance policies cannot complain that they do not know where their money goes. For some inexplicable reason vodka Is not given its fair share of credit for the internal troubles of Russlu. Florist Burbank, the California wizard, is one conspicuous grafter whose work commands public praise. May bis tribe in crease. A silly Detroiter who erected a monu ment to Satan evidently labored under the delusion that the devil is dead. He doesn't know Detroit. Ohio Is getting so particular since the erupO m that the natives Insist on whisky being sold as straight gootls ulthout a m filial disguise. The real test of Mrs. C'iiadwirk's talent will come when she seeks a loan of free dom from the gowned wlsemen of the fed eral supreme court. Jeremiah O Donovan Rossa has acquired the pearefulness that comes with age and is about to leave New York for Ireland, where a life Job awaits him lu bis native city of Cork. KHMOJiS BOILED DOW. Honest prayer kills pride. Athelmn Is simply mors! anarchy. Rites have done llttl for the right. Kllllna: time Is throwing life away. Praying for ease Is asking to be an In valid. No church Is rich unless the poor sit In Its prws. Trimmed truth does not Improve Its ap pearance. The smaller a man's line the larger will be his busy sign. The less a man thinks of his virtues the rreater their value. Ecclesiastical log rolling furnishes the devil with plenty of fuel. The time to be most wary of new sin Is when you bury an old one. As soon as the minister becomes a men dicant the church loses a man. The only thing that makes any man su perior to an Ulier Is his service. Your opinion of life tuny be but a re flection of life's opinion of you. The dominance of one church will not cure the difference of the many, A donkey may buy a decree for cash, but he cannot conceal his brogue. It does not make the saints tender hearted to keep them In hot water. The man who has no mind of his own Is anxious to give every one a piece of It. You are not sure of being right with God because you are wrong with every one else. A man's dlligrnce In business Is religious In proportion as his religion Is a diligent business. Chicago Tribune. PKCIXAK SHOTS AT THK Pl'MMT. Indianapolis News: With Tr. Oladden's definite announcement that the tainted money question has been settled there seems to he no reason why there should not be a great boom In the philanthropy Industry. Brooklyn Eagle: Dowle Is hard up again and enn't get any more paper, on tick, to print his Leaves of Healing. Dowle has also been under the weather and couldn't heal himself. Dowle is several kinds of a remarkable man, but his statement that he Is the Prophet Elijah is still doubted In some quarters. Law Journal: Ecclesiastical bigotry has always been ono of the darkest features In Ihe history of the church, and It Is clear from some of the proceedings at the church congress that this spirit of bigotry Is for from extinct. The marriage cf divorced persons is a perfectly valid marriage. The state allows It, the law upholds It. yet the bishop of a state church established by law declares publicly that he will punish with loss of livelihood end office any cler gyman who solemnizes Buch a marriage. Chicago Chronicle: No man In Metho dism could be more missed than will be Bishop 8. M. Merrill, who passed away last Sunday In New Jersey. His talents were not of the ornamental kind, but for solid ity and value they were unsurpassed. He was a well-read and profound man, whose reasoning was rugged and whose opinions were regarded by his people as almost In fallible. They were accustomed to sum it all up by calling him the Daniel Webster of the church, partly because his bodily figure and facial expression bore a striking resemblance to those of the great states man. Bishop Merrill was a man of spot less purity of character. He had been so long the resident Methodist bishop of Chi cago that his death is almost as great a loss to the community as to the church. DOMESTIC PLEASATRIES. Mr. Lingerlong looking at the clock) I dare say it's time for me to go. Miss Tartum Still, it oughtn't to take much courage to say that, ought it? Chi cago Tribune. "No," said the gossip, "the divorce case or Mr. and Mrs. Swellman has not been finally decided yet. There's some hitch In the proceedings." "es." replied Cutting; "I suppose It's over the question as to who Is to have the custody of the pug dog." Philadelphia Catholic Standard. There Isn't much difference between the two sexes. When a woman meets a friend they gossip, and when a man meets a friend they go sip, too. Washington Post Mrs. Lushman My husband has given me the J60 bonnet I wanted. Mrs. Yerner My! he's awfully Indulgent. Mrs. Lushman He usually Is Indulgent nfter he's been Indulging. He didn't get home until 3 o'clock this morning. Phila delphia Press. "Women don't have logical minds!" said Shrewd bluntly. "They don't need them if they're as lucky ns I am," said his wife, sweetlv. "You see, I have you think for me!" Detroit Free Press. "I would propose to you, but I fear the effects of the excitement. When I am ex cited my heart heats so faintly that It Is scarcely noticeable." "Well, you know what the proverb says?" "What proverb?" "Faint heart never won fair lady." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "You are an angel!" the young man de clared. "Nonsense," retorted the devout high church damsel. "Do you not know that the foremost religious dignitaries have de rided that there a- o angels of the female sex?" Pittsburg Post. Gaston I tell you. old man, Miss Wat kyns is a mighty sensible girl the most sensible girl, I think, I ever knew. Alphonse I think you're rlht. my boy. I wouldn't advise you to propose to her. Somerville Journal. A LIFE'S l.F.SSOV There! little girl; don't cry! They have broken your doll, I know; And you tea-set blue, And you play-house, too. Are things of the long ago; But childish troubles will soon pass by. There! little girl; don't cry! There! little girl: don't cry! They have broken your slate, I know; And the glad, wild ways Of your school-girl days Are things of the long ago: But life and love will soon come by. There! little girl; don't ciy! There! little girl; don't cry! They have broken your heart, I know; And the rainbow (fleams Of your youthful dreams Are things of the lung ho; But heaven holds all for which you sigh. There! little girl; don't cry! James Whitcomb Riley. "You Cannot From Saturday Evening Post, July 12, if: "You cannot beat the right. It is good enough. When you know In your own heart that you are honorable n your dealings with your friends, you ran walk right stiuure up to :hem and look them straight in the eye and make them feel that you are treating Hum rlsht. They will then give you their confidence, and coniidenee begets business." CHARLES N. CKKWD3GN. that sells the Best Pianos, carries the largest Stock and makes Piano Buying Easy Is it not right to encouraae them In right doing? )ou don't need any one to liet you scleit a Piano at the liose Store. The Itight Piano, the Might Price and the Might Principles governing every deal makes it doubly right for you to trade at the llosite Htore. We sell Cable, Nelson, liuli A Iane, Krell, Mathuslu-k, Writer Bros., Whitney, t able NrUon, Mush Lane, krell, Mathusliek, Wiwr Mrus., Whitney, HiiLte, t'ramer nnd others. A. IKIOSPE 1513-15 Douglas Street Rt Place to Buy Piano. BANKERS fliEiSERYE LIFECDMTANY EAJCOn H KUDISUN If ,1 f . . m WTW rVX 5 1 D E N Mr pf9J -AA . "-i ' ' 1 Ili i 1' WE CITE OUR PROOFS The Bankers Reserve Life. Company of Omaha is a Mutual Legal Raserve Life Insurance Company. It is not conducted for the exclu sive bsnefit of a few stock holders. Every policy-holder is a stocK holder, having a voice1 in Us" control and management. Perfect equity is maintained among policy-holders, In the dts- tribuiion of benefits, profits and privileges. Every policy is secured by a de. posit of approved securities with the State of Nebraska and is so endorsed. Every investment is. prescribed by the law, making its securities the safest and most advanta geous within reach of. mortal man. Its legal reserve is fixed by law, regulating the cost of Insurance. Its dividends, based on mean reserves, are greater than those of any other companv, demon strating economy in administra tion. Its death rate is the lowest of anycompanyin America demon strating care in selection of risks and conservative management. Its policies contain combinations of privileges and benefits not ex celled by any other company. These are a few irrefutable proo!s of the equity, security, so lidity, permanence and suprema cy of the Bankers Reserve Life Company of Omaha. It will be of particular advan tage to you at this time to enclose your name, exact date of birth, oicupa.ion and address in a let ter to Bascom H. Robison, presi dent, Home Office, Omaha, Ne braska. Eye Troubles The most sensitive and most useful organ of the human body Is the most neglected and least understood. Scien tists now recognize It is a potent factor to health, es pecially -as governing nerv ous troubles and headaches. Sufferers from these troubles are finding relief In properly fitted glasses. We are Optical Head quarters. UTESOH 213 S. 16th St. Paxton Block OPTICAL CO. factory on the Premises. COOKING SCHOOL MX. ST. MARY'S SRMINARV, at 15th and Castellar Sts. Winter clasHes ure now being formed. Ladies de. irlng to take the whole couis snould make application immediately. Shorter courses, for day or evening eUsnea in plain and fancy cookery are to In- estab lished, and private lessons, with special in structions will be given. Por terms, apply to Mother Superior. Beat the Right" If your money Is as good as the other fellow's that's right, is it not? If we refuse to raise our price In order to pay your friend or ac quaintance a commission on the piano you buy, is I hat uot right? Knowing that there is at least one Piano House iu the West w here your money Is safe and well Invested when you buy a house Western Kellers of the Wonderful Aug-rlus.