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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCIT 4. lPOfi. hi The Omaiia Sunday Bep E. ROSEWATF.R, EDITOR. PUBLISHED KVKHV MOHN1NO. TKRM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), one year...$0o Dally bee and Sunday, one year ti-'O .Illustrated Bee. rnif yc:ir t.V Sunday Bee, one year t-J" i Haturd.iy l;ee, one year 18' I DELIVERED IIY CARRIER. ' Dully Lee liiirludliiK Sunday), per week. ,17c .Daily l'.ee iwnhi.tit HuncUvt, per week....Le .Evening H (wl'hcut Sunday), p r week. tc Evening (with Sunday), per wee....10c j Sunday Bee, jut ropy c Address complaints i f Irregularities In de I livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. ' Omaha Thp Bee Building South Omaha City Hall Building. Council B.ufT-10 Hearl Street. Chicago ltW) I nlty Building. New York W Home Life Ins. Building. Washington f.l Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. , Communtrtl ns reluting o new and ed ' ' Itorlal matter should be addressed: Omaha 'lice, Editorial Department. ! REMITTANCES. ; Remit by draft, wren or postal order ' . payable to The Ree Publishing Company. I Only 2-oent stamps received a payment of j mall arrounlK. Personal check, except on , J Omaha or eantern exchanges, not nccepted. THE I1EE PUBLISHING COM FAN I. ' STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. ! Btata of Nebraska, Douglas County, as: j C. C. Rosewater, secretary of The wee Publishing company, being duly sworn. ! says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during I the month of February, 19WJ. was aa fol- : lows: i ni, . I..: at.r.rso S ait.uoo 15 S1.30O i :ta,o4o 17... S2..DIO ig zu.2ro 19 8i.nno 20 31.3TO 11 31. Mil 22 a 1.250 3 31.430 24 H2.0OO J5 21,2KO 26 31,300 27 31,430 28 31. .TWO .... IW.MiiO .... Xl.TNO .... 31.710 .... ai.rwto .... 31,-t.lO .11,41)0 .... 3a.72 10.. 11 Stt.tiOO 12 si.nno 13 S1.200 14 81.2IM) Total 87H.H Less unsold copies 11,102 Net total sales . HM,04.S Dally average 31,37 C. C. ROSEWATER Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 2sth day of February, 1906. (Seal) M. B. HUNUATE, Notary Public. WHEN OCT OF TOWK, Subscribers leaving; the city tem porarily should have) The Bee mailed to them. Address will .be rhanged as often aa requested. It Is a little early yet to pnss sentence , upon Mnrch for either luuib-llke or Hon like propensities. Omnb.ii seems already to be gathering some of the crop sprouted from the seeds down by tlmt I'at Crowe verdict t; With "Billy" Saunders as his guide .'philosopher nnd friend, Benson will surely be able to steer clenrVf grafters. - Trying to maintain June tornadoes and January blizzards at one nnd the same time lu the month of March must be trying on the weather man. Mnlne seems to be strivlni to aimer-I yi -" - ----- 1 bi-ub acw jersey n um nome or corpora- tlons with more cnpltnl stock than cash; but the contest Is not yet decided. King Edward U on his vacation, but advance reports of his plans show that he will have to work full time to take II the recrentlon he hns scheduled. f Cnndldutes for city offices who wnnt , to ride into office by the gas route might . Apply to the commanding officer of the slgrnl corps for the loau of a balloon or two. A Colorado treasurer Is short -In his accounts. It was supposed Colorado people were too busy with dynamite and revolvers to be guilty of common crimes. The outlook for the Nebraska land leasing bill Is said to be much brighter than It has been before, but that "still leaves a great dual of rainbow in the skylight. Now that John N. Baldwin has be come a resident of Omaha, the Missouri river will no longer be a barrier to bis becoming o delegate to Nebraska stnte conventions. Evidence is accumulating to warrant belief that Frederick Palmer Is mnklng a play for the position made vacant by the retirement of Tress Agent Bishop at me earnest suggestion of congress. That French offlelnl who loudly pro- claims that the French strongholds are In good condition should remember thnt .ft successful army usually does Its fight- - lng near the strongholds of the enemy, V Vow that the Russlnn law regarding the powers of the general assembly has !heen promulgated, the public will await .x the promulgation of the exceptions be- fore applauding the liberality of the j crnr. i;. rormer tnirmnn wuace sees a threat to the success of the Panama canal In the construction of a rallrond .ncros Central America: but the former 'rhilrmr.n Is best known as a railroad builder. If the Hungarian trouble renches the fltrhtlng stage It will be well for Francis Kossuth to rememlter thnt. Mnee the United States hailed his father as a ''liero. we have nchleved nn International T reputation. ; And now it transpires thnt Dr. Osier nver snld thnt all the old men over 60 should be chloroformed to death. Whnt he did sar wns thnt the world would be better off If Its mosbneks occupied lodg. lugs In the cemeteries. The wav to clean Omaha of hoboes Is I ' to build a workhouse that will make a t H)lice court sentence mean hard labor. A workhouse for petty offenders would the most effective quarantine the city could hnve against visitations of rsgrants who are so easily tempted to otnmlt serious crime. rvnun oris toy axd the sexatK Former Fourth Assistant Postmnster Uenernl Rrlstow of Kansas, In his intcr vewat Washington docs not overstate the weight vt puMIc pressure for the en actment of the Hepburn bill nnemnscti lnted by senate amendment. It would be almost Impossible to overstate It The paramount demand of the people of Kansas, as Mr. Hrlstow describes It, Is equally the demand of the whole coun try. If the prospect of the passage of the Hepburn measure by, the ieunte Is brightened. It is because of the menace of public displeasure nuil condemnation of the Intrlmii'S that have been In prog- ress among senator to dehorn that measure when It should arrive from the house. No sign has been wanting since this session begnn, even If we shut out from view the whole course of events at the session a year ago and since, to prove that such n scheme for thwarting the will of the country has been In ac tual existence, and many friends of rate regulation have feared the scheme to kill It might succeed. The conspirators, until very recently, have been corre spondingly -encouraged. But it must be dawning even upon the railroad representatives that they hnve misjudged the character of the movement led by President Roosevelt for subjecting the Interstate railroads to veritable and en forcible restraints under public authority. The time hns gone by when such evidence of public opinion ns Mr. Hrlstow affirms can be slgmatlzed and dismissed as a mere expression of western radicalism or as a pnsslng popular vagary. What sena torial agents and conspirators for cor poration despotism are beginning to see Is the clenched fist of the American peo ple. It Is a signal demonstration of the definlteness and resolution of the publlo mind that Interests so powerfully In trenched In the senate as are those within the pun-lew of the Hepburn bill find tlielr. deep-laid conspiracy of stealthy opposition in danger of collapse at the moment when the fight on the floor of the senate Is Just beginning. The senate, although removed from the direct accountability to the people by which the house is held. Is finding out that this Is ft time when public opinion will reach far and hit hard with "the big stick." This Is the true explanation of the reports coming out of Washing ton of better prospect that the Hepburn measure may pnss the senute substan tially unchanged. rmurpixE tariff rill. It now looks as If the Philippine tariff bill, reducing rates on the sugar nnd tobneco of the islands Imported Into the United States to 25 per cent of the Dlngley rates, which passed the house of representatives by an overwhelming mnlorltv. will fall in the senate. The . ...... .i. active wore iignnmi me uiu oy mo American sugar nnd tobneco Interests has evidently had the desired effect upon n "number of senators, na shown by the opposition that developed In the com mittee having the bill under considera tion. It was stated a week ago that from an. Informal poll of the senate It wna thought that the bill will be de feated unless a compromise Is effected, and It was suggested that the bill be amended so that sugar and tobacco from the Philippines would be subject to a tariff equal to 40 or 50 per cent of the Dlngley rates. Since then the situation Is said to have become rather less favor able for the measure. There has been talk of n bnrgaln among republican and democratic senators to sncrlSce the Philippine bill as the price of a combina tion to secure the passnge of the railroad rate bill, but probably there Is nothing In this. The fact Is that most of the republican senators are more concerned nbout the American Interests which would be affected by the proposed reduction In the tariff on Philippine products than they are 1n the industrial future of the archi pelago. They have been looking care fully Into the matter nnd hnve come to the conclusion thnt the bill passed by the house would have results Injurious to the home sugar and tobacco Interests. RenatortHnle a few days ngo presented figures showing the low cost of produc ing sugnr and tobneco in the Philippines, and although Secretary Taft Questioned the Itccurncv of those flsrnrea there can ho no t1oubt thnt tney nre nccoptort by mnny senators as correct. There nre among the democratic senators several who are In sympathy with the American sugar and tobneco Interests and It Is reasonable to assume that they exert n considerable Influence with their pnrty colleagues. As now Indicated the failure of the hill In the sonnto seems nlmost nssured nud It is entirely eertnln thnt It cauhot pnss as sent from the house. rVBLIC DCILDIXG REFORM. A new policy lu regard to public build ings is ant ounc?d, on the authority of the chairman of the house committee on public buildings and grounds, Repre sentative Bartholdt of Missouri. He is quoted ns saying that so Jong as he is chairman of the committee there will be provided good, sensible workshops for the government when new court houses and workshops are needed and not highly ornamented, expensive palaces. Post- offices, he said, will be only two stories high, so that the clerks and other work ers may have plenty of natural light and not be forced to utilize artificial light, as they now have to do night and day lu some of the newest aud most costly buildings. "We will build better and more serviceable public buildings than we have ever had before and at one-fifth of the cost" A schedule adopted by the committee for the cost of public buildings provides that towns of 10,(s population, where the postal receipts are JO).0U or more, public buildings shall cost ' not more than $50,000. For town of less than 10,000 population $40,J0 buildings. From that minimum the cost will In crease up to $.H).(Sii, that being the limit for any building. Mr. Hnrtholdt declared that there have been wasteful extravagances, and bad Judgment as well. In the building of federal struc tures In the past, a statement which will hardly be disputed ntid which can be supported by abundant evidence. It Is stated that the pending bills for post offices nnd other federal buildings call for a total expenditure of more than $.".-..Xs,(siO, but the bill that will be re ported from the committee will carry only about one-fourth of this amount nnd such a measure the house will prob ably pass. The spirit of reform lu this direction appears not to have renched the senate, as that liody is going ahead with its own public building bills aud has nlready authorized about $7,000,(XW) expenditure for new postofflces nnd court houses, most of the bills getting through by unanimous consent. The house managers Intend to fight these ex pensive measures and It Is predicted that there will be a royal battle In the conference on the public building bill. The position taken by the house com mittee In this matter wll undoubtedly have popular approval. No one will de sire thnt there be n penurious policy In providing public buildings, but a stop should be put to the Indefensible ex travagance which hns obtained in this direction. LET THE WEED1XG Ol'T BF.GIX. Although the new direct nomination law, enacted for Douglas county by the last legislature, wns put into operation last fall, its first real test under critical conditions will come lu the Impending municipal primaries. The vindication of the law as a stepju the right direc tion In election reform devolves upon the rank and file of the voters of the different political paHles who nre to mnke nominations under It If it rested with the cnndldntes the direct primary would be -swamped be fore embarkation. With the bars com pletely down I y the abolition of nil filing fees ninety-eight enndidates hnve filed on the republican side uloiie for the twelve plnces lu the city council. It will take discrimination and common sense to separate the grain from this large amount of chnff nnd bring nbout the elimination in the primary of the in competents, inenpneitnteds nnd disrepu tables who appear to be almost In a ma jority In the grand total of the long list of names filed. The weeding out process, however, enn and should begin at once. Whether enndjdntes nre legally entitled to with draw their filings or not they have a right at any time to announce their withdrawal from n hopeless race and to commend their friends to the support of stronger or better qualified competi tors. This Is especially applicable to the horde of avowed councllmanle candi dates most of whom should tnke the ndvlce of the grent poet nnd "Stand not upon the order of their going but go at once." 3IAK1XQ PROGRESS. Evidence grows that the reactionaries in Russia hnve about lost their hold upon affairs nnd thnt in the near future their Influence upon political adminis tration will practically end. According to the latest ndvlces the result of a series of special councils, under the presidency of the emperor, Is the grant ing of the mnln gunrautees of liberty and the adoption of measures Intended to assure the fulfilment of these guaran tees. It Is clearly Indicated thnt the cstnr has virtually rid himself of the more or less dlctntorlnl element whose sinister counsel, blundering and corrup tion hnve brought so much disaster and humiliation to the empire and Is ear nestly desirous to Improve conditions under the ndvlce of WItte and others who have shown their absolute loyalty to the Jirone while urging changes and reforms lu the Interest of the people. It Is a great triumph for these men that they have been nble to overcome the long-wlelded Influence of a bureaucracy whose position seemed but n very short time ngo Impregnable, so strong ap peared to be Its hold upon every depart ment of the government, civil and mili tary. There Is. therefore, good reason to be lieve that political regeneration In Bus sla Is at hand and after that hns been realized Improvement lu other directions will follow. But there are grave Indus trial and agricultural problems to be solved which will cnll for the exercise of the wisest statesmnnshlp. Especially Is the agrarlnn problem regarded ns serl ous. A writer fnmlllnr with Russian conditions points out that the peasant population forms 02 per cent of the total of 110,000.000 In European Russia nnd S!i per cent of the whole of the empire. While the peasant population hns been doubled since the date of the emauci pntlon of the serfs, the lands allotted to the freemen have not Increased. The average size of a Russlnn pensnnt fain lly is seven, and despite famine nnd pes tllence. starvation nnd emigration to Siberia, there are now over l(H),Os,000 peasants tilling the land which forty-four years ago produced Just nbout enough to feed the .Vt.OOO.OOO of serfs. As the numlier of the peasants have Increased their small holdings hnd to be divided and subdivided for the sustenance of the growing generations, aud the constantly Increasing demands of the government have sunk them deeper nnd deeper into poverty. There can be no doubt that the land question Is the burning issue with the peasantry of Russia and the most difficult problem confronting the government. The land question has already re ceived attention and among the sugges tions is one thnt private estates. In ex cess of a maximum acrenge, must be expropriated by the government at a price dependent tqion actual market values and distributed on easy terms of payment to the peasantry, as the only effective means of putting an end to the ngrarlan 'troubles disturbing the empire. Of course this Is opposed by the grent landowners, but It is more than likely to le ultimately adopted when the peo ple nre nble to make their wishes nnd demands known through a national assembly. The work of political reform, however, must first be accomplished and In this good progress is being mnde. It Is a very much greater task than most people outside of Ilussla have any con ception of. LAXDS IX THE RASGE REGIOX- ' One grave difficulty In the way of de vising a system of public laud leases for grazing purposes, at least so far as the desire of big ranchmen In western Ne braska for summary relief from existing conditions Is concerned, Is the lack of definite official Information concerning the land lu question. Generally speak ing It Is of course believed that a large amount of land In the aggregate Is per manently unfit for other than grazing purposes, and that It can be used to best advantage, or at all, only In quite ex tensive tracts. But the limits of such lands hnve not been officially ascer tained nnd marked off. They do not lie in n solid body, nnd It Is known thnt within the general boundary of the re gion of Insufficient rninfnll there Is not n little land, in valleys and other favored plnces, which is desirable for homesteads. In his message nt the opening of the present session of congress President Roosevelt enlarged upon this point ftnd recommended that the remnant of the public domain be strictly classified,, as a preliminary to a ystem for lenslng that portion which might thus be certainly found fit only for grazing purposes. The president pointed out that there has been no satisfactory ascertainment of this character. It goes without saying thnt such nri ascertainment could be had only by most thorough methods and careful safeguards, nil of which hnve been wnntlng In the classification of lands under the swamp land net nnd vnrlous other land nets through which such eostiv blunders nnd innumerable frauds were permitted to creep in. rubllc 'sentiment Is no longer negli gent of the remaining public lands, but on the contrary Is now keenly insistent that every ncre suitnble for cultivation, or that by nny chance might become so. shnll without fail be reserved for the homesteader. Recent Investigations by the federal authorities In this and other states have only made the public more sensitive aud cautious. Authority for range leases which a few years ngo might have been given without hesita tion and almost without consideration would be withheld now. No leasing measure carrying the liberal provisions of the bill approved as late ns the win ter of 1003 by the secretary of the In terior nnd the president would today be seriously entertained. Yet that measure wns then emphatically rejected by the big cattlemen themselves, in spite of the fact that It had been devised in good faith to help them out of the very troubles In which they now find them selves. A proper measure for relieving the situation in the range country Is a de sideratum, but such a measure must re solve every doubt In favor of the home steader. The confession of our fellow towns man, Jacob E. Market, before the Pan ama Investigating committee that he expected to make only $."0.OOO a year for five years out of the cancelled cater ing contract Instead of $1,000,000 a year, ns credited up by disappointed competi tors, takes him down several pegs In the public estimation by putting him In a class no higher than insurance presi dents and trust magnates instead of in a special class all by himself. If the famous Markel contract had shrunk to such mean proportions It is no wonder so little fuss was made over Its abroga tion. There Is a good time coming for Omaha taxpayers. Jim Dnhlman prom ises If elected mayor to give this city an economic administration. Benson nnd Hennlngs sny the snme thing nnd Brontch will promise anything. We nre sure now of economy nnd retrenchment with n big "It" all along the line. But there Is nlwuys some difference between before taking end nfter tnklng. Several more Iown and Nebraska col leges are being exposed to pollution by proffered gifts of Carnegie money to help erect new buildings badly needed. If Colonel Bryan Is In any way officially connected with these institutions an other batch of resignations with explan atory letters may shortly be expected. If It takes the new labor pnrty of Great Britain ns long to find a "leader" as It takes the conservatives to deter mine between Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain, the life of the new Parlia ment will be ended only by the statutes of limitations. Perhaps the best wny for Omaha law yers to prevent division of the state Into two federal Judicial districts Is to go down to fJncoln nnd see that the Judge, ship endorsement goes to someone whom nolmdy wnnts. Ancient Corner Applaodrd. - Baltimore American. Young Mr. Rockefeller la "till vigorously defending Joseph's corner in corn, so prob ably has not had time to turn his atten tion to Jacob's Investment of his mess ot pottage In his brother's birthright, since he has brouRht thos ancient commercial transactions under fire. A Crlma Asalast Children. UaUlnure American. Whatever views may be held of divorce, there is one feature of dlyorce trials which Is repulsive to ull people of good feeling which it Is a pity there Is not some lnw to abolish, and that is bringing little children Into court as witnesses against accused parties. Such Impressions as are tlifn gained might never leave a child's mind. and (teneral publlo aaglnst the practice. policy seems to be Valaahle laf orraatloa. Indlnr.npolls News. Senator Tillman's Idea that Information on the rnllroad rate question which was leathered at an expense of $0P0 ought to be presented to. the senate seems reason able, but at the same time It must be remembered that a number of the senators have excellent facilities for securing In formation from other sources. Military Mllepoeta. Springfield Republican. It needs a very little, war to make a score of new generals. This was thoroughly de veloped In the debate on the clause abolishing- the rank of lieutenant general of the t-'nlted States army. We have today a lieutenant general for almost every year that has elapsed since peace was made with Spain. Latest American Trlamph. Brooklyn Eagla. We have make-believe coffee and tea and ketchup and wine and candy, and we put up tomatoes that prove to be turnips, but the great American Inventor has gone ahead of himself In manufacturing a chop that consists of butchers' scraps pounded together and fastened with glue to a bone that has done service In a restaurant. Srme day the hero medifl will go to the man who dares to eat. SHYSTER LAWYERS A BID REFfiUM. "Maryland, Mr Maryland," Starts an Innovation. St. Louis Republic. Protest In Baltimore against the common or garden variety of shyster lawyer In general and the particular species known as ambulance chaser lias taken the form of a proposed measure entitled the Pratt shyster lawyer bill, which Is Just now the subject of considerable discussion. Its pro visions are interesting: "Whoever, for his own gain, and having no existing relationship or Interest In the Issue, directly or Indirectly, solicits an other to sue at law- or In equity, or to make a litigious claim, or to retain his own or another's services In so suing or making a litigious claim; or whoever, being an at torney nt law, knowingly prosecutes a case In which his 'services have been retained as a result of such solicitation; or who ever, being an Attorney at law, directly or hidlrectly, agrees to procure another to be employed as tin- expert witness, or otherwise, or procures another to be so employed in consideration of his so so liciting litigious business, or undertaking io solicit It. or in any other wny compen sates or agrees to compensate another for so doing, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $500 or by Imprisonment in Jail for not more than three months, or by both. Any so licitation as aforesaid shall be prima facte evidence that the person so soliciting Is doing so for gain. The term attorney at law shall Include counselor at law; pro vided, that nothing herein contained shall Impair or nffect the disciplinary powers of the courts of this state over attorneys and counselors at law appearing and practicing in the same." It Is observed that this measure, how ever drastic, imposes no hardship upon the lawyer who does not solicit; Its aim being to reach the flourishing shysters who main tain ambulance chasers and make a busi ness of drilling perjurers. That there are such nourishing shysters In every big city, including St. Ixuis, Is Incontestable. The bench and the bar know them. And that the shyster business of this and every other class ought to be practically checked la a conviction of the profession generally. It is worth noticing that the bualnesa of ambulance chasing Is not confined solely to lawyers who seek the plaintiff's side of the contention against corporations. The corporations themselves have been known to he. guilty of employing shrewd claim agents who do the some kind of "dirty work." ,A weeding out of shysters generally and the enactment of laws dealing with the more flagrant kinds of shysters would ho an Important reform In line with the better tendencies of the day, but If such a re form Is accomplished honest lawyers must first overcome their reluctance to making an Issue against their corrupt brethren The complaint Is constantly In the mouths of honest lawyers against the Jacklegs, but none of the good men appears willing to cast the first stone. Clean men should undertake to clean out their honorable pro fession, to dlsbur and to prosecute the ras cals and carry forward a crusade for higher standards. They should either-dem onstrate the courage of their convictions or they should cease the very common pro test against the degradation of their calling, PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. The straw hat and the early robin have so far resisted the climatic temptations of the cornbelt. Wise guy, shrewd bird. Gallantry In vehicles is not a lost art in New York City. One wise Indian cheer fully surrendered his seat In a balloon to a woman. It Is fairly certain that John D. Rocke feller dodged the Missouri lnuulsltors by taking a secret passage from his own to his son-tn-law's home. The hole was found Intact. A receiver has been appointed for a Chi cago company which sold $l,0e0,uu) worth of stock, contracted debts to the amount of $250,000 and mugnanimously left $1U0 in change for the receiver to ploy with. A Milwaukee woman la suing for $7(30,0(0 because some people persuaded her husband to leave her. The assertion tiiat a Mil waukee husband Is worth that sum Is enough to put a clean smiling face on Mil waukee river. Some congressmen with knowledge to burn declared, In discussing the pure food bill that the roseate hue of whisky afforded no guarantee against a headache next morning. When experience speaks It bo hooves novices to listen. Musically inclined people will sympathize with the Chicugo Judge who paused in his solemn deliverances to enjoin a phono graph which blatantly reeled off "Listen to the Old Guy's Chin." Justice would have winked had he used an ax. Ex-Senator Wlillam E. Chandler of New Hampshire is putting in some hard licks with tont:ue and pen in Washington in favor of railroad rate regulation. The rail roads regulated William out of the senator ship and he is In the right mood to recipro cate. The patriotism of ex-Governor Hogg is as broad as the Lone Etar state. As soon as the supreme court pronounced against express companies the genial Hogg leaped into the breach and organized an independ ent company to do the business. The ex governor is not blind when a good thing bumps his way. Within the limits of Cook county, which means Chicago, there are 1,4'U grass widows drawing annually $B7.',W'0 In alimony frot, former husbands. J ho average number o divorces annually is ClOO und they cos the county Illo.wO a year. Here la an abun dance of fuel to start an output of hot air from the sociological professors for which Chicago is Justly celebrated. With unfeigned Borrow the fact la nott-J that fhlladeiphla is returning to us s.eepy habits. Burglars raided a local store plcktO up a t(-pound safe, placed it on pushcart and vanished. Ail tnls wr.lie family of nine peacefully slumbered In the building. Stilt a gentle scoff ill befits community where crocks kick a bole lu Jail walis and skedaddle. Old Dutch SOLD IN Large Siftiug Top Cans I0c at all Grocers 10c Made by & CUDAHY PACKING CO., SEIl.MO.S BOILED DOWN. Realizing the right is all there is of re ligion. He takes heaven everywhere who has the happy heart. Thunders of applause give no promise of showers of blessing. They find the gate of heaven who seek the good of humanity. . He who shuts the. door of heaven on an other shuts himself out. A good iiiuny more would walk with God If he would go blindfold. Much of our sorrow is stuff we have stolen thinking it wasijoy. The most heavenly virtues come out of the most homely occasions. Civilization will be synonymous with Bal- vatlon when it has cured sin. The tight-listed child often finds that he has a loose hold on his Father. The only thing that niiikvs any work sa cred is the way that it Is done. The devil has no more effective weapon than the Christian's rusty sword. Every time you envy another man his meal you drop gall Into your own plate. People who cannot stand up in the tight must not look to sit down In tho feast. Don't think you are fixed on feathers there because you make a lot of fuss here. Many a man Is praying for grace to bear his trials who needs Just sand to shake them. It's hard for the man who has ground off his nose on the money mill to smell a taint on anything. Chicago Tribune. SECILAR SHUTS AT TUB 1'ILI'IT. Philadelphia Press: Y'oung Mr. Rocke feller on Sunday told his Bible class about the oorner In corn engineered by Joseph In Egypt some years since, and commcded ihe excellence of it. But It really wasn't Just the kind of corner that things are cornered with In these days. Springfield Republican: Mr. Labouchere till serves a good purpose through his paper, Truth, in defending Princess Una's conversion to the Roman Catholic faith, in order to facilitate her marriage to King Alfonso of Spain. As Truth says, It's her business. No one can expect the king to become an Episcopalian, and there must be team work at Madrid. The Congregationalism ' After spepding more than an hour looking over religious exchanges, the sentence most vividly im printed on our minds is this: "Are your kidneys weak?" Cannot some question con cerning the soul's condition and need be invented that will challenge the attention of the readers of religious newspapers as affectively as the repulsive headlines of the advertisement of a patent medicine? New York Globe: Dr. Emll G. Hirsch, the distinguished rabbi of Chicago, is also alarmed over the atrocities committed by the charitable rich. "Charity, as the word is known today," he says, "is only a bribe of moneyed men to make a community forget the wrongs heaped upon it." Here tofore the poor man hua had the world's sympathy as the under dog. Now he is becoming supcrcanine and the rich man subcanine. Does a rich man not give, he is stingy; does he give, he is a briber passes from negative to positive crime. If he would get rid of superfluous wealth his only chance Is to buy edifices and burn them down uninsured. Even then he might be arrested for arson and accused of ma liciously overworking the poor firemen; or hygienlsts would say he was dirtying the air with smoke and thus murdering those compelled to breathe it. MACHIAVELLIAN UlSINESS. Honor and Trnthf ulnesa Cat trout the Lexicon of Trasts. McClure's Magazine. Take the matter ot bribing clerks In rail freight offices to turn over Information concerning the shipments of rival concerns. In at least one great trust this practlc Is so extensive aa to have become a matter of elaborate bookkeeping. No clerk can be so stupid as not to know he is doing a wrong and harmful act when he betrays private Information. He knows the money paid him for the Information Is a bribe, yet the money comes from a great and powerful corporation. Even If he wants to refuse It he dares not lest he lose his position. His honor Is sullied his manhood shaken his soul corrupted. There can be no estimation of the corruption of manliness which this practice alone has caused. There can be no condemnation 100 outer oi wie men who have devised the system. They are corrupters of youth. Think again of what must be the effect OUR PIANO BUSINESS bas grown to the front rank in tho big Piano businesses ot this country. And It is by far the largest piano, business in the west. There must be a potent "why" for this. It didn't Just happen so. It became so by selling the best pianos In the world. By Insisting that even these best Pianos should be a little better for us than for the other dealers. And by persisting In selling reliable Pianos at fair prices. OUR ONE PRICE PLAN makes buying so safe and so easy. Indeed It's a pleasure to know your money Is Just as good as anyone else's. 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SOUTH OMAHA, NEBRASKA on a great body of young men employed by a trust, when they know their president has lied deliberately on the witnoss stand, has lied for the good of the business. There are plenty of such rases revealed In our commercial Investigations. The young man loyal to his employer and yet trained to honor the truth must almost inevitably come to the conclusion that lying Is one of the necessary Implements In successful business and as time goes on he probably will conclude that It Is all right If It will aid In getting you anything you want. If the good of the business Justi fies lying, It Justifies all other things law breaking, cruelty, treachery; unconsciously the young man becomes a Machiavellian In his theory of the relation of honor to business. DOMESTIC Pl.K AS ANTH I KS. Mrs. Shopper These goods are not nt all what I want. Have you shown me everything you have? Tired Salesman No, ma'am. I haven't shown you, an old uccount of yours that we've had for some time Cleveland Leader. He Will you be my wife? She Pardon me, but how many clubs do you belong to? He I belong to six, but She Then I'll take a chance. You'll probably be a wny from home so imie'i thnt It won't inconvenience me. Chicago News. "Mr. Wipe Is an anostlo Isn't he?" "Not at all. Wtiat led you to think that?" "Miss Passay told me he didn't believe the bible." "Ah! she means the Bible In which tho record of her birth is entered. He noticed that she bad been tampering with the date." Philadelphia ITess. Suddenly Archie clapped his hand on one of the upper pockets of his waistcoat. "Crushed your cigars again. I suppose?" said Miss Jarmer. with a bewitching blush. "No, thank heaven!" exclaimed Archie. "I remember now that I put them in the other pocket before I came." Chicago Tribune. "Say!" "Huh?" "If if you wanted to kiss a girl and wasn't sure of your ground, what would you ask her Hrst?" "If she thought anyone was looking." Cleveland Leader. He My dear, there Is something striking about you. She No, it's the clock. New York Times. Miss Flurtle What are Jou turning the gas down for? ' Jack Nervey I'm going to kiss you. Miss Flurtle I'd JiiBt like to see you! Jack Nervey Oh! in that case I'll Just leavo the light up.-Philadelphia Press. "Did Charlie Gilder propose to you last night?" "Well, it was a near proposal. He said he'd marry me If he could get his father's consent. ".-Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Did you hear that the daughter of that rich man in the rext block had been driven from home!" "No. When did It happen?" "Just after she got into the carriage." Baltimore Amerlian. A LITTLE FARTHER OX. W. D, Nesblt In Chicago Tribune. Just a little farther on waits a wondrous April dawn. When the boughs will break in blossoms as a flag is lifted up, When the grass will rise and run with the laughter of the sun And the sky will seem to pour us wine from out a magic cup; And we'll sing because of knowing all the songs the wind is blowing, And the earth will be the gladder for the dreary days agone. Then we'll catch the murmured words In the singing of the birds, When the earth has rolled to springtime -Just a little farther on. For the good old earth It knows where the robin and the rose Walt to- set our hearts to leaping for the beauty of the day, And it knows the necromance of the vio lets that dance To the music of the brooklet that once more Is loosed In Play. Ho, the blossom petals drifting In the breeze forever shifting. And tne forests naming greener for their battle with the snows! Then we 11 catch the melodies of the wak ing honey bees, For the good old earth is rolling to the robin and the rose. Shut your eyes, and you may dream of the dandelion's gleam Where the cureless hand of springtime has been spilling all Its gold. While the meadow over night Mings aside the wintry blight And its carpet smooth as velvet is by fairy hunds unrolled. Then we'll know the tang and tingle of the blossom scents that mingle. And we'll taste the Joys of living In the wondrous April dawn. For we're swinging to the wiles of the singing and the smiles, To tiie blessedness of springtime Just a little further on. I JOIN THE SHEET MUSIC CLUB.
