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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1905. 15 Tiie Omaha Sunday Bee K. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), one year..4f0 Dally Hm and Sunday, one ear 6 00 Illustrated Bee, one year 2.50 Sunday Ree. one year ! M Saturday Bee, ona year 1 W DEUVERKD BY CARRIER. Hally Bee (Including Sundny). per week. .17c Laily Bee (without Burnley). r week..l:!e Evening Pee (without Sundis 1, per "'k hc Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week... 10c Sunday Roe. pir copy 5c Address complaints of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. C ouncil Bluff't-lO Pearl Street. Chicago HMO I'nlty Building. Now York Up") Home Life Inn. Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORREBIONDENCE. Communications relating to new and ed itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. express or postal order, pavable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received "as payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except tin Omaha or eastern exchanges, not sccepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as: C. C. Rosewater. secretary of The Be Publishing Company, being duly sworn, savs that the actual number of ftill and complete coplhs of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1906, was as fol lows: i ai.Boo 2 31,tl0 3 31,140 4 M.7BO itn,TO b ao.Hrio 7 an.iHO t. :t4,io 31,200 10 ai.ooo 11 81.HNO 12 2,IMH 13 .11.300 14 HljUM 15 31,430 16 1. 630 17 31,7711 18 .12.1100 19 !H,W.O K) 3t,3(M) 21 31.BOO 22 31,4.10 13 sut.sfto 24 31.H50 25 3il,40 2H Si.30 27 , 81,JM 28 81.IHHI 23 3IJ-M 30 81,M Total 44MWH Leas unsold copies lo,31il Net total sales.. Dally average ., :t(t.z:is 31,VOT C. C. ROSEWATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this lt day of December, 1906. (Seal) M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Public. WHEN OIT OF TOWN. Subscribers leaving; the city tern, porarlly sbnnld bate The Bee mailed to them. It la better than a dally letter from home. Ad dress will be changed as often as requested. The Fifty-ninth congress mnke 1U bow to the public. will now What more could be expected than that Turkey (should show weakness after Thanksgiving day? The Impression is becoming prevalent in some quarters that the "watch trust" should have closer watching. When the wires from Ft. Petersburg cease to work it is an optimist indeed who feels that no news is good news. That quiet election in Cuba is a dem onstration of the effectiveness of the rural guards in the recent search for "lnsurrectos." ' Russian revolutionists have a long and painful route before them If they must first educate the Cossacks before they can carry their point. L ill' This year's Christmas trade opens with a volume that promises to eclipse Jll earlier records. Tlty poor Santa Claus and the letter carrier. Having produced a message of more than 23,000 words, the president need call on no experts to testify that be Is enjoying his usual good health.' It la very singular that the railroad attorneys have not discovered until now that the railway commission of Kansas is an unconstitutional body. The Kansas and Oklahoma brick trust has just been organized with a capital of $3,000,000, and the distribution of rust stock gold bricks will be made at once. ' According to Bradstreet's, last week's cold wave has proved a stimulus to trade, which only confirms the old adage that It Is an 111 wind that blows uobody good. In discharging Andrew Fields New York Insurance companies must have de cided that purchasable legislators no longer come under the heud of "sup plies." Judge Hamilton Is willing to tell the investigating committee all, but he feels sure he can tell It with much less em harassment when the Atlantic ocean is between him. and his inquisitors. j i L1 m ' Superintendent Iuvldson Is reported as standing up for foot ball, but, If he would only plant himself at the bottom of tho pile a few times, he probably would not be standing up for foot ball. The "big nine" conference proltably reflected the real student sentiment re garding brutality iu foot ball guinea when It decided that the price of admis sion to games should not le more than 30 cents. li( raising the point of jurisdiction ('oniinlaiouer Vaudivcr of Missouri may demonstrate that federal courts already have the right to control Insurance com paniesbut only at the sugt'stlou of a cuuipuny. The move to bar floral offerings from t!e first day's session of the new eon Kress is doubtless prompted by the fact that these flowers have altogether too often simply foreshadowed jtolittcal funerals. . Residents of Nebraska who secured homesteads In South Dakota by raffle will either have to squat or quit. It U held to be a fundamental principle of land grant physics that oue body cannot occupy two aylcea at the same time. the i.r:ni!tr,ATVnr. irn.t ro its dutt. Whllo tho republican rress of Ne braska Is practically unnnlmous In favor of constitutional revision, apprehension Is expressed In some quarters that the legislature If reconvened could not be convinced that an emergency exists for the revision of the constitution In other words, that the legislature, If called to gether in extra session, could not le In duced to submit a series of amendments to the constitution that would cure the defects In the orgnnic law which have so seriously embarrassed state adminis trations and rendered a strict enforce ment of the constitution utterly Impos sible under existing conditions. This apprehension is chiefly caused by the failure of the legislature in its regu lar session to agree upon proposed amendments with one single exception, and the disappointment and the general distrust In Its Integrity of purpose and of action caused by the defeat of many meritorious measures, and its general disregard of public sentiment and even party pledges. Do flgs grow on thistles? What can be expected from a legislature that was dominated completely by the corporation lobby? These questions are naturally asked to create a doubt ns to the wisdom of calling the legislature to gether this winter. Upon second sober thought we feel sure those who entertain such apprehen sion will change their views. Tho last legislature was a great disappointment to many people, as other legislatures have been before it, and will be here after, but legislatures are made up largely, if not wholly, of men with politi cal ambitious. Many, if not n majority of its members, would like either to be re elected or to climb higher. They aspire to state ofllces, seats in congress or po sitions on the district lench. Few of them are recklessly indifferent to popu lar approval and all who are conscious of having run counter to public senti ment will be only too glad of an oppor tunity to redeem themselves. Quite apart from the individual desire of members to reinstate themselves in the public esteem, there will really be no temptation to go wrong. The only constitutional amendment that might have met with opposition from corpora tionsthe creation of a railroad commis sionwas submitted at the regular ses sion. The other amendments will meet with no serious objection from any quar ter. Their defeat at the last session was due chiefly to a combination of circum stances and a disposition to retaliate for the defeat of mutilations of bills in and out of committee nt the behest of va rious conflicting interests. All this will be out of the way In an extra session that will be confined strictly to legisla tion on topics' embodied In the gov ernor's call. As n matter of fact, legislatures called In special session rarely, If ever, adjourn without carrying out the principal ob jects for which they were called to gether, even when that object Is to enact measures that were defeated by them In regular session. A few examples will suffice: Two different New York legisla tures were reconvened iu extra session by Governors Roosevelt and Odell to compel public utility corporations to pay for franchises and to pay taxes on fran chises. Both of these legislatures had voted down the bills having that object in lew and yet revised their action when compelled to face the issue squarely in an extra session. The same Is true of legislatures reconvened In ex tra session hy Governor Folk in Mis souri, Governor LaFollette In Wisconsin and Governor Davis In Arkansas. In each of these special sessions the cor porations matje desperate efforts to frus trate the reforms recommended ry tne respective governors, and in eoch in stance they failed because the lawmak ers were not bold enough to defy public sentiment. . -X EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS. That the United States is making steady progress in popular education Is amply attested by stutistlcs, yet it Is a fact, as shown by a late bulletin of the census bureau, that several European countries have a better record la this re spect than we have, which Is explain able bv the circumstance that of our negro population nearly one-half are 11 literate. So far as the white population Is concerned, the educational conditions here compare favorably with those of any foreign country and are superior to most of them. According to the bulletin, of our uative white population only 40 out of every 1,000, or fewer than 1 In 20, are nnable to write. While of the foreign-born whites the number is 128 out of every 1,000 and of the negroes 445 out of every 1,000 are illiterate. But these figures, when compared with those of the census of 1800, show a decided progress iu populur education which Is reassuring for the future. They give promise that within another decade the percentage of illiteracy will be greatly reduced, not ouly as concerns the white population, but also the negroes. Tills will necessarily come from the steadily Increasing facilities for educa tion, the enlarged opportunities afforded by the public schools uud state universl tics and the incentives to education that are everywhere prevalent. At no previ ous time has there been so great an effort for the promotion of education as there is at present The public school system of the country was never before so so licitously cared for, the state universi ties nevej more liberally provided for, while millions are auuually given to pri vate Institutions of learning for enlarg ing their Mcoie and usefulness. In many of the states there are laws compelling the attendance of children up to a ecr run age at tue puniic acnoois ana very generally this Is strictly enforced. In every practicable way the youth, of America are lMng Impressed with the necessity of obtaining at least a common school education and the effect of this becomes more and more pronounced from year to year. Among the noteworthy facta in the census bureau buUetln is the statement that the female sex is more illiterate than the male, but the former has been gaining and may be expected to catch up with the males in the not remote fu ture. Another and by no means surpris ing fact is that Illiteracy among children Is much greater In the country than In the cities, but n change In this respect will come with Increased educational fa cilities In the rural communities. Of course illiteracy is In general greater the sohth than in tho north and this Is likely to continue to be so for an indefi nite time, though there should be a steady diminution in the relative per centage. While the showing made by tho census bureau Is not all that' could be desired, yet it Is by no means such as to discour age the friends of educational progress. As remarked In the bulletin, "there Is ground for satisfaction in the statistical evidence that illiteracy is steadily being reduced." ELIMINATING BLASK BALLOTS The official canvass o the Nebraska election returns discloses oue feature of the voting by machine in Douglas county, as compared with the voting by ballot in the remainder of the state, that has not attracted public attention. The total vote polled throughout Nebraska at the recent election is given at 102,132, but the total vote recorded ff all the different candidates for supreme judge foots up only 177,541, leaving nearly 15.000 blank ballots cast by voters who indicated no preference for the head of the state ticket. In Douglas county, on the other hand, the figures In the total vote column are 17,503, as compared with 17.351 votes polled by the four top candidates, leav ing only 237 voters unrecorded for su preme Judge. Computed by decimal pro portion, the percentage of blank ballots in the state is 7.00, while In Douelas county It Is only 1.33. If Douglas county were deducted from the state returns, the percentage for Nebraska, outside of Douglas county,, would be 8.23, and this disproportion still greater. Reduced to tabular form, this Is the comparison: Neb., ex-Ne- Douglas eluding Candidates. braska. county. Douglas. Letton, (rep.) 96.167 10,206 6,421 648 81 S.9tt 66,628 2.593 6.103 Hastings, (fus.) 72,949 Condlt, (soc.) 3,241 Btall. (pro) ,5.184 Total for Jufle..!77.641 17,356 160,185 Total vote cast.... 192,152 . 17,693 174,569 Shortage 14,611 237 14,374 Per cent of total.. 7.60 1.36 8.23 If this la a fair criterion It Is plain that the introduction of voting machines throughout the state would practically eliminate the shortage between the total vote and the aggregate vote cast for can didates for any particular office In a word, the' voting machine appears to mnke voting for every office to be filled compulsory upon every voter who exer cises his electoral suffrage. AOAiyST NAVAL INCREASE. The position taken by Secretary Bona parte adverse to any further large addi tion to the navy at present, which it Is presumed has the approval of President Roosevelt, bus ulreudy made an Impres sion which promises to make itself mani fest in the action of congress. Senator Hale, chairman of the senate naval com mittee, Is quoted us saying that he is with the secretary of the navy on that question. The Muine senator remarked that aside from the British navy w;e support the strongest navy In the world and he could see no pressing need for any great outlay in that direction. It Is altogether probable that this view will be found to prevail largely with members of congress, especially since the question of economy in public ex penditures is commanding unusual at tention. To vote large appropriations for new ships of war wiien It Is neces sary to curtail expenses In order to avoid additional taxation would cer tainly meet with public disapproval. An other point to be considered is 'that we have not a sufficient number of officers and .seamen to properly man the ships we have. Senator Hale Is not exactly correct In saying that we support the strongest navy in the world except that of Great Britain, but at least we rank third and we need only to maintain that position. That this will be the Judgment of congress there Is very good reason to believe. W ILL THE SULTAN SURRENDER A crisis in the Issue between Turkey and the powers is Imminent. If the sultan continues oinlurate, as seems not improbable from the advices at this writ ing, the powers will carry out the pro gram of coercion which has txeu agreed upon and in thut event a situation will be created that may have very serious consequences. As' pointed out in he dis patches, Turkey has an army ready to offer resistance to an aggressive move ment on the part of the powers and It Is possible she has prepared to use' it If bo, there will be war and a conflict of no small proportions. It Is said that what emboldens the sul tan to hold out against the powers for the proper administration of Macedonia is not the strength of Turkey, but the weakness of Russia. Russia has been the dominating power lu Turkey since the Crimean war, when the English in fluence declined. The defeat of Russia by Japan, together with the dreadful misrule in the czar's domain, could not fail to have influence upon the sultan It is pointed out that Russia, under th circumstances, iustead of being au ele ment of strength to the powers In for cing the sultan to yield Is the chief ele ment of weakness and emboldens the sultan to resistance. The Arm and un compromising land taken by the power may have the lued effect, but it is b.v no means uullkely that Turkey will per sist in the refusal to accede to the de mand for International control of the Macedonian finances and take chances In a wnr for the malntmaucc of her present authority In Macedonia. To re linquish this would not only be to give up an Important source of revenue, but to lose prestige which she naturally re gards ns of great value. A determina tion of the Issue cannot be long deferred and the outcome Is awaited with univer sal interest. AS TO TtlE CARNBUIE DONATION- At the orgauizatlou meeting of the trustees for the Carnegie donation which is to Iw used to estublish retirement pensions for superannuated college pro fessors, it developed that the question of admitting state universities to share In the benefits is yet to be determined by the trustees of the foundation. When this gift was originally an nounced with conditions that seemed to exclude state universities from partici pation, The Bee entered remonstrance in the name of these institutions and urged strongly that they had tbej same claims to equal treatment with the privately endowed colleges and universi ties, while discrimination against them would be a positive injury In making It almost impossible for them to hold de sirable members of their faculties, un less they could establish for themselves a pension fund to match Mr. Carnegie's. It is gratifying to note, therefore, an Intelligent comment upon the problem In "The Outlook," declaring" that "there is not the slightest question that so far ns claims for consideration are con cerned the teachers of state universities stand on precisely the same basis as teachers in other Institutions, but the question whether any ether agency shall step in between the state and Its institu tions needs careful consideration." The merit of the remonstrance against practicing an unwarranted discrimina tion upon the state universities must strike home with every fair-minded per son and the trustees of the Carnegie foundation cannot fall to realize the awkward position in which these state educational institutions have been placed. The muln complication in the situation, as It presents itself now, Is that of the twenty-five trustees twenty three are presidents of privately en dowed universities and colleges, which must suffer proportionate diminution of their shares of the pension fund, if they take in the state universities, and it de volves upon these trustees' to decide whether the state universities shall or shall not be taken in. It Is certainly to be hoped they will consider the mat ter without bias and reach a conclusion solely upon broad grounds of largest benefits to the cause of higher educa tion in this country as a whole. The state of Nevada has been a rotten borough for many years and the an nouncement that former Steel Trust Magnate Charles M. Schwab aspires to represent Nevada In the United States senate will not startle anybody. The assurance that Mr. Schwab will be very strong in 1008, when the legislature will be selected that will name Senator New lands' successor is no revelation. The total population of Nevada is less than 60,000 and Mr. Schwab will encounter no serious difficulty in convincing a ma Jority of Its voters that an iron master Is more generous than a bonanza king. "It Is not known," says the Washing ton forecaster of the Omaha fakery, "whether Representative Kennedy will seek to erect a new public building In the Second district during the coming year." Inasmuch as there Is not a town of more than a thousand population In the Second district not already supplied with a poBtofflee building. It may be safely predicted that Representnlve Kennedy will introduce no postofllee building bills during the coming session. Members of the Nebraska delegation in congress who are banking on the pas sage of an omnibus building bill during the coming session are off their reckon ing. Uncle Joe Cannon Is not fond of omnibus bills In general and most em phatically opposed to omnibus building bills. He Insists that every tub must stand on its own bottom, and every post office building bill pass or fall on its own merits. The mayors of Ohio cities are organiz ing for a co-operative campaign for municipal home rule and Immunity from legislative Interference In purely local affairs. If the new organization will make it its flrst duty to prosecute re lentlessly the agents and lobbyists of public contractors and frauehlsed cor porations who make it a business to mutilate city charter legislation. It may possibly score a success. It seems strange to find New York ex pressing apprehension that harbor im provements at Antwerp may put the American metropolis back in the rank it has long occupied as a shipping center. The putch laid the foundation for New York's greatness, but uo oue ever sup posed that any Hutch city would ever again block the way of the new Ams terdam ou this side of the water. Having put fcU money Into the Panama canal, the only way for Uncle Sam to get returns on it is to finish the job at the earliest possible day, aud even then he will huve to wait long enough to see the color of his coin. The resiguing habit has not yet be come epidemic with big life insurance officials, but the virus seems to have worked in several noteworthy cases and nay bs expected also to take In several more The telegraphers' strike in Russia will timulate the butterine cable dispatch tuhiue In New York aud full and authentic accounts of affairs at the Rus sian capital. Including star chamler con ferences between the cxar nnd his cab inet, will bo transmitted by wireless grapevine to all parts of the United States by exclusive correspondence. There will be at least two vacant seats In the United States senate during the session about to open. One of these was occupied by Senator Hippie-Mitchell of Oregon and the other by Senator Burton of Kansas. Russia's Rfrolntlonarr Spirit. Philadelphia' Ledger. Americans In Russia can hardly expect the peasant on a vodka rampage to be nicely discriminating. Operatic Heallam. Brooklyn Eagle. This proposition to pipe opera Into your house Tor 60 cents does not seem to be ac cepted with enthusiasm. Opera In New York Is not music; It is clothes, diamonds, wells, cackle and consplculty. A Flatit to a Finish. Philadelphia Record. Secretary Hitchcock evidently contem plates a long life as head of the Department of the Interior, since he Is resolved never to quit It until the last land pirate of the west is put under lock and key. Midway Culture Safe. Indianapolis News. It Is not thought, however, that the transfer of E. Benjamin Andrews to Chi cago university would In any appreciable measure lessen the somewhat bizarre repu tation that its industrious professors have given It. Mistaken Opinions. New York Tribune. President Ripley of the Santa Fe rail- 1 road thinks President Roosevelt is sincere In regard to rate legislation, but mistaken. It Is unfortunate, but the same compliment cannot be paid to all the rullroad presi dents who oppose the plan, though the general opinion seems to be that they are mistaken. Bigness Has Its Weakness. Wall Street Journal. There are signs of reaction against great Industrial combinations. At last people are , beginning to perceive that exaggerated em phasis has been pu upon the value of mere growth In size. There Is a point evidently at which a company becomes too big to control, to manage and to resist success fully new competition. Mere bigness ta no certain proof of strength. Social Petty larceny. Pittsburg Dispatch. A remark made by one of the officers I of the British flagship as the squadron was about to leave New -York calls at tention to a relaxation of public morals that cannot be considered with satisfaction. The declaration ot the officer was: "We have saved our guns." The meaning of that remarkable claim on the results of a visit of friendship was that during the days when the flagship was hospitably open to public visits the social custom of petty larceny for obtaining souvenirs had so stripped the ship of portable articles that the officers considered it a matter ot congratulation that they were able to get away with their heavy artillery still un tolen. The Square Deal. New York Mall. The evil of American life .among those that have as well as those that want la the passion to secure the opposite of what President Roosevelt calls "the square deal." The problem of American life, after the present tasks of fumigation are complete, will be to compel people to observe "the rules of the game." From college foot ball up to the rebate quest of the large railroad shipper, the lobbying of the pub lic service corporation, the "syndicate par ticipations" of the Insurance "magnate" and the grafting operations of public offi cials, the whole evil begins and ends with the unwillingness to play fair. "The square deal," really accomplished, would smash some great trusts, decimate some colossal fortunes, reduce some foot ball heads, but It would mightily purify Ameri can life, redress Its unequal balances, with draw "the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes." TUB DRAMA AND THE CHVRCn. Effect of the Former In Shaping; tho Character of Men. Boston Transcript. Sir Henry Irving's death furnished an opportunity to note Just how confirmed or altered the Christian church Is in Its atti tude of hostility to the dramatic art when I played by professionals and made a life I calling, not a few churchmen and churches making a distinction between amateur and professional participation In plays on the stage, a distinction not always obvious to the dispassionate critic. Comment on Sir Henry's death so far as It has come from pulpit or the ecclesiastical organs. In the main has been appreciative of his attain ments, of his character as a man, and more tolerant than formerly In discussion ot the function which the drama plays in society's educational and recreative life. The act of the authorities of Westminster Abbey In giving his ashes a place there also has been approved. Here and there, however, the old note of hostility to the theater as such has been struck; and In more journals there has been lack of hope for the future of the stage even where there has been approval of its alms. Incidentally it has been made known by an Kplscopal rector how profoundly seeing Irving play Becket affected the life and career of a Japanese student of Christian theology, whom the rector once Invited to go with him to see Irving, and persuaded to stay to the end. To the Japanese Beeket's death, he said, was the solemn pledge and sign of his own consecration to his native land, even If It Involved death and matryr dom. Whereas before the play he had questioned whether If the hour of choice between self and country should come he would be found faithful, after he had come under the spell of Tennyson's and Irving's combined art' he no longer had any fear of which would be dominant, love of life or love of country, love of ease or love of honor. It is such tales as these, by no means rare, but too often never recorded, of a sort that the dramatic gossip seldom hears, or If he hears, dues not publish which give pause to the moralist who sees no worth In the drama, and no honor due to the artist who produces ethical effects night sfter night. Had the stage the mechanism for following up the good Impressions It makes, resolves It Incites, comparable to the ma chinery which the church has tor register ing the effect of the pulpit's eloquence, dramatic power and ethical Impulse, It would have a better repute. It has been content to let the curtain fall and rls? again, night after night, without following up Its lessons taught; whereas the preacher or the teacher devises ways and means of testing the didactic power of the words which they let fall In sermon or In lecture. If in the next considerable gathering of men you are a member of, you have the chance to poll the group aa to the effect upon them at crises In their lives of certain plays and actors they have seen, you might be surprised to And how many had a tale imllar In tenor to that of the Japanese who saw Irving play botket. f.rmoa non.F.n now. Little kindnesses come back to us full grown. The healthy heart can always find some happiness. Count your mercies and you discount your mlserlrs. The review of the past often gives a nnw View of the present. The best appreciation of Cod s bounty Is seen In our liberality. Our best welfare has seldom been wel come at its flrst coming. Many a man who is only see-snwlng thinks he is sawing wood. Tho poorest kind of sermon is the one filled with fear of the rich hearer. It Is the man who fenrs to soil his hnnds who will worry least about his heart. The ntun whose voice drowns the choir In church sings small on the street. The wisest man Is he who knows how big a fool he can be without trying. Some people never feel good unless they are making others feel the other way. A man does pot get to c ona of the good sheep by letting the wool fall over his eyes. Some think they are entitled to the wings of an angel because they have the appetite of an ostrich. If the trouble loan office would be closed for a day the whole' world would be so happy It would seem that heaven hud come. It doesn't take much courage to lash the devil from the pulpit when you know the ushers are handy to throw him out If he tries to answer back. St. Louis Republic. SECILAR SHOTS AT THE PI I-IMT. Chicago Record-Herald:' A Cleveland preacher says pie Is worse than beer as a destroyer of morality. Perhaps he means the custard pie that one sits on at a Sun day school picnic. Minneapolis Journal: The Episcopal bishop of New York has started a federa tion of church clubs to take in all Prot estants, Roman Catholics and Hebrews. They are all brothers, but there will be abundant subject matter for discussion. Chicago Tribune: An Indiana preacher offers J12.000 to any other preacher who can convince him that baptism by sprink ling has Scriptural authority. We will give anybody 112,000,000 who can convince us of anything of which we don't want to be convinced. New York Tribune: Tho condemnation of a minister for not believing that Moses literally wrote down tho record of his own death suggests memories of that clas sic heresy case In which a minister was accused of not believing In the devil. He pleaded guilty of such a lack of belief. "Then what do you believe In?" was de manded. "I believe," he reptfed, "In the Lord Jesus Christ." But some of them stuck to It that he was a heretic, all the same, and declared him to be anathema niaranatha. Kansas City Journal: A preacher at the conclusion of one of his sermons said: "Let all In the house who are paying their debts stand up." Instantly every man, woman and child, with one exception, rose to their feet. The preacher seated them all and said: "Now every man not paying his debts stand up." The exceptions noted, a care worn, hungry-looking Individual, clothed In a last year's summer suit, slowly assumed a perpendicular position. "How is It, my friend," asked the minister, "that you are the only man not to meet his obligations?" "I run a newspaper," he meekly answered, "and the brethren who stood up are my subscribers, and" "Let us pray," ex claimed the preacher. CHURCH, STATE AND MARRIAGE. Proposed Separation of the Civil and Rellalona Ceremonies. New York Sun. Bishop Doane, In his address to the diocesan convention of the Episcopal church at Albany, urged that that church should adopt and pursue Invariably the principle that no marriage shall be solemnized bv the church between persons either of whom has been divorced from one who Is living at the time. That Is, he would make mar riage In the eyes of the church indissoluble except by death. This, as is well known, is the position taken by the Roman Catholic church, and unquestionably It Is a position which a church can rightfully take without offence to our civil laws of marriage and divorce. A corollary of that position, however. Is the strict separation of the civil and the legal marriage of record from the marriage solemnized by the church. In other words, the clergy should be re lieved of the function of performing mar riages aa civil magistrates and left free to follow their religious conscience as respects the solemnization of matrimony under the canons of their church, however those might conflict with the civil law. Bishop Doane would "rid the church of all responsibility" In the matter of divorce and throw the whole burden on the state. That, end would be secured if civil and legal marriage was made wholly distinct from the religious en-ice. If under the civil law people are entitled to marriage, they have a right to have It performed by purely civil magistrates; but if under the church law the parties are not eligible to religious matrimony, the church should be free to refuse to recognize and solemnize the union. This would be a measure of relief for the clergy and it would be consistent with the principle of the separation of state and church In this republic. People eligible for marriage under the law of the state cannot rightfully be refused marriage by a magis trate of the state, nor Is it in the Interest of good morals that they should thus be debarred from it; but the church also has the right to refuse Its sanction to a mar riage forbidden by Its own law and Its own conscience. That Is, the legal contract of marriage and the solemnization of matrimony as a purely religious service ought to be kept wholly distinct. A Serious Piano Business The Hospe Piano business Is serious to you. It seems to be a careless grab for your, money in most Piano Stores. We'd rather lose a rale than misrepresent one single thing about a Piano because you'd find it out sooner or later. In this Piano busi ness we're standing up for your rights. t That's one reason why our Pianos are all marked with the lowest price a plain-figure business is fair to you a sliding price Is unfair. We pay no commissions to people who bring or send customers to our atore. Our prices are too low for us to do thut, and It is unfair business besides. Can you tell ua another Piano store conducted on such a fair, square plan a plan that protects the one who pays out bard earned money. We sell a New $250 Piano for 91(H We sell a New $300 Piano for. : 22S We Bell a New $400 Piano for 300 A. HOSPE CO., 1513-15 Douglas St. Best ?m h Buy Flm: Stllttt ot lb Woadtrtul Aajeui. PFRCOf AL ASD OTTfF.RWIiE. The goosebone prophecy of a mild winter Is hurrying southward to retrieve Its repu tation. A Chicago Judge performed the marriage ceremony In nine seconds, beating the di vorce record by forty-nine seconds. Hetty freen declares her money Isn't "tight." That Is, she doesn't burn any of It without a liberal fire Insurance policy. Edwin Markham cheerily sings "Thou art the wind and I the lyre." Trobnbly Edwin butted Into a bunch of defeated candidates. Three heirs to the fortunes of Callfnrnlu '49ers have been killed In automobile acci dents. Callfornlans strike a warm pace when they cross the Sierras. It won't be dimcult for the doctors to convince ''Judge" Hamilton that the cli mate of New York would be fat-tl to a delicate constitution nt this season. A wagonload of coin rumbling merrily over the pavement stopped a run on a Keokuk bank'. Tho sight of money Is as good as the feel to a scared depositor. After ten weeks' work a Chicago court discovered eleven men who acknowledged sufficient Ignorance to fit them for Jury service. Incidentally, all of them need the money. A miniature rebellion among school glrli at Richmond, Ind., has been squelched. The girls Insisted on wearing tiny bells on their garters. The schoolmaster said nay, nay, and mamma's slipper did the cent. An official In the Seattle assay office with more sand than sense exchanged a buck etful of the former for $35,000 worth ol golddust. But he didn't fool Uncle Sam and the sand change artist' has ample timt In Jail to think about It. The food commissioner of Pennsylvania says every old thing In the shape of drink In that state Is adulterated. Even brand? of "Pennsylvania pure rye" are nothing more than a mixture of raw alcohol, cara mel and prune Juice. No wonder thing! happen In Pennsylvania. Those who have sailed the unsalted seal In the good old summer time and enjoyed the felicity of waveless waters will readily understand the trouble these ponds possess by reading accounts of Wednesday's storm. A score of ships and nearly as many lives were eeut to destruction by a sixty-mild gale which kicked up waves so high that steel craft could not stand the strain. Winter winds are terrors on these waters. Summer breezes make them a Joyous memory. DOMESTIC PLEASAMHIES. "I'm disgusted with all this advice u women to begin their Christmas shopping early." "Why?" "Because the earlier my wife begins the longer she keeps at it." Cleveland PltUr. Dealer. "So she sued him for lio.ooo for stoallnx a kiss. Did she get the money?" "No. he offered to give back the kiss!" Detroit Free Press. Tho wife What luck? The husband (wearily) None whatever. The wife Were there no servants In the intelligence offloe? The huxbaud (sadly) Lota of them, but they had all worked lor us before. W oman's Homo Companion. Mrs. Noooyne Jack, we'll have to get a divorce. Mr. Nocoyne What de you mean? Mrs. Nocoyne It's either divorce or ruin. Eighteen of the people who gave us wed ding presents are going to be married next month. Shall 1 apply, or will you? Cleve land Leader. , "Gracious, dear," said the Chicago bridegroom, "you were awfully nervous during the ceremony." "I know," replied the bride. "It's Just my temperament and nothing will ever change It. I'm sure I'll be just as nervous the next time." Philadelphia Press. "Mr. dumboyle," sold Johnny, who was entertaining theyoung man, "what do you do for a llvin'? you're a putter, ain't you?" "What makes you think so, Johnny?" ask.d the young man. "1 heard paw askin' maw the other day why you was poiterln' round here so much. Chicago Tribune, "Gracious! What's the matter?" asked trie Chicago bridegroom, finding his bride '""Cmrshe sobbed, "I Just tripped and fell coming up the stairs." "But you didn't hurt yourself, did you? "Hurt myself? Don't you know that's a sign I won t get married this year." Phila delphia Ledger. TUB WORLD GKOWS BETTER. A. J. Waterhouse In San Francisco Call. Tell me not, In your doleful way, that the world grows ever worse; That we cannot escape from the drear, old sway of the drear, old primal curse. Tell me not that there la no hope except In the grace of God, For, though It be true, He seta that grace In the veriest human clod. The world is sweeter than e'er it was; I read not far or deep Till I know that out of the slough of sin the multitudes upward creep. Our sight may be dim while we walk our time on this misty, earthly shore. But we clearer see what the right must be than ever man saw before. i The world Is better, aye, better far, than It was In the days of eld. When they might take who had the power and they might keep who held; When the belted knights rode to and fro, ' their cruel will to do. And the king was lord of his su eject's brawn, and e en of his spirit, too; When a woman's name was a tiling to toast and her virtue a thing to own; When a serf nnd a bnndxman bore the mark of tho tyrant upon the throne Ah, sigh if you will for "tho good old days," the fabulous days of yore. But we clearer see what the right must be than ever man saw before. I know that the problems that Teg us now are sere to our errant view. But we've gained the sight, an we've gained the might, that our grandslres never knew: We have swung from the day when might was right to the day when Right re veals Some part of her face, divinely fair, to the veriest clod who feels; Through the long, slow aenns we've upward pressed, as ever our God hath willed, And here lias the Right been crowned our king, or there has the Wrong been stilled. There Is much to do, there is much to win, for the ages have taught their lore,. But we clearer see what the right mint bi than ever niau saw before.