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TIIE OMAHA , DAILY REE: SUNDAY. MAY 13. 1900. ITiieOmajia Sunday Hes E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Pt:BLI8HEl) EVERT MORNING. TERMS OP IB3CR1PT10N. pafly B (without Sunday). one year..(W I4lr Be and Sunday. oo year 0 Iibuitrated om year Sunday B, one yr i 2 Saturday Be. one year 1 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. tally f (Including Sunday), per week. .17c laily Ree (without Hnndav). per week Ua Evening Pe (without Punday, per week. o Evening He (with Sunday), per week....l' ilunday Bee, per ropy 6c Addreaa complalnta of Irregularltle In de livery to City Circulation I.epartment. OFFICES. Omaha The BM Building. South Omaha City Hall HuiMing. Council Bluff 10 Peer I At reel. Chicago 140 Unity Building. New York 15 Home Life In. Building Waahlnton fM Fourteenth Rtreel. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to nun and e.ll ! torlal matter should be audresaed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, eipress or postal order payable to The IMhllshlng Company. Only i-cent stamp received an payment of tnaJI accounta. Personal cheek, eaeept on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. TUB BEE PLBUSHUNQ COMPANV. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State pf Nebraska, Dourfaa County, w : at C. Rosewater, general manager of The. Ree Publishing company, Deing duly b-wotii, aya that the actual number of full and complete, copies of The Daily, MornUX. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during to month of April, 1908. was. as follow- 1. SW.iMO 1 81,440 1 81,400 4. S4.7NO i 31,20 81,20 f aa.ioo t 4A.100 81.400 io. ai.auu 11. ...1,410- U v 1,S30 U 81.170 14 S3, tOO 18 m 88,100 It aijHH 1? 81,410 Jl 45.HI0 1( 4H.240 20 4sTt II 46JtMt it SH.ftftO 23 JM.t0 24 8I.3IIO U 81.4SO 16 SI.4TO n siuto U 32 ,3 TO V i....8ttMtno tO 81,MM Total 1,041.840 unsold copies 13.573 Net total sale Dally avtrag vlAH,tti! S4.SWO C. C. ROSEWATER. Qeneral Manager. Subscribed In my presence aad sworn t before ma this 80th day of April, vm. lealj) M. B. HLNUATE. Notary Public. ' WHES OCT OF TOWN. Sabairlkere iMvlaar th alty teat, orarlly heal4 have The tire Mailed te them Atdrea will be ehaaaed m often rweeeetea. Unfortunately' for the sultan, capi talist reTuse to .take their pay In dec orations. If Natal will watch Moro pulajanes It will discover tho best way to handle warlike Zulus when friepdly efforts fall. As long as the senate committee continues in a deadlock as to the style of the' Panama canal no damage will be done. Senatorial . courtesy seems to halt Just before It reaches the committee room whenever Attorney Cromwell is on the stand. In the light of the experiences of Iowa boys at Annapolis Congressman Hepburn may be permitted to pass some strictures upon the navy. Remarks by Senators Bailey and Tillman Indicate that the democrats are not getting all the glory they hoped from the railway rate bill. With American warships guarding Ban Domingo it is highly probable that natives of that country will carefully curb their desire to go on the war path. Rhode' Island democrats are as ac tive as though they Imagined the Standard Oil company would be too busy in the courts to help Senator Al rich. The report that John Alexander Dowle is fatally ill is bad news for his lawyers, as actions In bankruptcy are usually more remunerative than those In probate. . ' Unless the. Kansas supreme court Jumps ever its docket. Mayor Rose of Kansas City will serve his term before that body learns officially that it has been insulted. Since the "muck rake" speech the price of sensational political magazine articles seems to have declined; but it baa not affected current quotations on hunting stories. Automobile makers will have more trouble to show prospective buyers where it is profitable to have a fast machine when laws against rapid driv ing are enforced. Russia's "black hundred" can leave its campaign to Its enemies since the social democracy has called a strike for May day when all patriots should keep their eyes on the Duma. Tennessee democrats have voted by direct primary for a United States sen ator, but until returns are received from the back counties it cannot be told how the echo of the fiddle came from the hills. With Egypt clamoring for home rule, the Transvaal asking for respon sible government and Australia build ing a Colonial navy, Irish members of Parliament may find themselves rein forced In a short time. As the . "Tobacco trust" w. joined tn a manner with the "Paper trust" In the supreme court action, the prece dent set at St. Paul may he followed In New York, unless Gotham counsel lors may know their Judges better. Iowa democrats are to hold a meet ing to discuss the question of calling a state convention. Judging by re marks of Iowa republican newspapers they should wait until the republicans have named their candidate as cir cumstances alter cases. first rcp.. Tlio enactment of a railway rate me;i,,tie bated on the Hepborn-Dol-Ilver bill, but perfected with rsrioae strengthening amend men r. Is now practically assured. The bill may yet be inodlPed In its minor features before It en efd f'orn the senate, and even a'tei- t bat uay undergo more o.- kt trnnsfoit.ielion In conference between the two bosses, but a bill embxlyrig MilstantjaKy the president's .-e.-o. i- mei'dailons will be written npn tiiu Kt sit.te books, barring unfo:'im'?n I'tnoi ;cti( lea, before the flnnl adjmrn-ni- it of outre. Tn;.t tMs entls the controversy fur ;ovei mm ut control of thesa oroi-:i-tions in not to be aRiimed. Internal vigilance Is the price of liberty t'i'd rtctiMi violence will be necewttry tn ti e pr.it of the people and their ici rfMt'it:iih ef to keen what will have been gained and to correct whatever mlatakea may be developed. Sooner or IsNt this rate legislation Is bound to uuderiM the scrutiny of the courts. It would le remarkable if the Drat at tempt st legislation ahonld result in a stat'itj that would pass throuzh t.Il ooi.ntlttitk uul tests In Its every part. It will bo necenary In the next con gress, vr thf congrees that is to orae after tu uy,, remedial bills in the event that tbe courts shall have voided any sections of the bill, and the lineup be tween the representatives Of the cor- lo -oil. n on the one side and of the people on the other Is likely to be Just a.s dear cut over future measures to make the law effective as it Is now over the present bill. What is directly In point In this con nection is the imperative necessity of having men in the next congress, and especially in the next senate, who can be depended upon to stand steadfastly by the Roosevelt program. This ap plies particularly to Nebraska, where a new senator Is to be chosen. Ne braska is a state made up of farmers and producers, who are thoroughly en listed under the Roosevelt banner. If a change is to be made In Nebraska's representation In the senate It must be a change In the direction of upholding the'president and not in the drrectlon of corporate subserviency. iKHTur A I'AHLIAMKXT. To Americans, or, indeed, to any people of western Europe and their colonies having the experience and traditions of constitutional govern ment, the Russian experiment of a parliament under the explicit reserva tions of power contained in the czar's proclamation of the Fundamental Law just before the meeting of the Duma, or national assembly, seems at first blush preposterous and futile. We can hardly conceive of a national legis lature from which are withheld by written constitution the power of the purse and control of the public do main, to say nothing of many other great powers denied to the Russian national assembly and definitely re tained as crown prerogatives by the ciar. On the terms of this organic writing the czar, theoretically, can carry on government without regard to Parlia ment, borrowing and expending the necessary money at his pleasure, much as the autocrat of all the Russlas has heretofore done. Practically and in the long run, however, the reverse is likely to happen, unless the general history of constitutional progress fails to repeat Itself. The Russian loan of 300,OOQ,000, taken within a few weeks through foreign banking houses, could not - have been successfully floated, it U agreed, but for the assur ance that it would be duly confirmed and ratified by the Parliament. So the czar will, In emergency. In all probability, be thrown back upon the approval of the assembly as the popu lar representative, and concession by him of popular demands and rights will be the price of approval. The very exclusion of the Parlia ment by written prohibition from land control may tend, along this line, to a solution of what Is probably the most formidable, practical national problem. A peasant population equal to two-thirds the total population of the United States owns an average of less than seven acres each, on whom rests the weight of excessive taxation; before whom Is the menace of re current famine, and yet who have before their very eyes the tantalizing sight of almost illimitable rich but now waste land that would save them. Altogether the crown, the Imperial family, the church and the nobles monopolize, In large part without using and preventing others from using, nearly a billion acres of land. The passionate desire of the peasantry is. as It long hafl been, to possess this vital opportunity and It grows stronger every year. The czar's res ervation of power over It tends to fix upon him responsibility in the peas ant's mind, so densely ignorant, that heretofore this fact has been obscured, while the national assembly Is aa In strument, though not yet an Immedi ately decisive ope, for pressiug that fact home. Historically, constitutional progress has mainly been limitation on royal power. The very calling and existence of the popular assembly Is itself a memorable surrender of autocracy. It affords a point of vantage 'from which popular right may progressively wrest concessions of liberty, political power, land and the other means of happiness as emergency from time to time .con fronts autocratic authority, It is indeed not a parliament as we understand its function. Behind en Anglo-Baxon parliament there Is ' a thousand Tears of tradition and con tinuous constitutional growth and practical adjustment. The Russian assembly will be a historic triumph tor human liberty if it proves but the germ of constitutional government for the realm of the cr.nr. The true test of Its success is, not that it should be at one stroke an embodiment of west ern constitutional models, but rather that It should afford a basis, however narrow, on which a vast nation of almost nredieval superstitions, igno lance and other conditions, now be ginning to respond to the spirit of the times, may In the twentieth century work toward those models. HHLHt; IMK LOSS fAl.l.S MOST. A letter lrom Paul Morton, p.esi 0ul of Die Kquitublo, tiupfiaxliteS wh:il he t ails " a lamentable fact"' connected vith the recent Insurance upheaval and consequent investigations, that 11. e;. force those to bear the burden who ci tild least afford It. The records of his company, he says, show "that through a groundless fear that ma turing contrncts might not be fulfilled more that 27,000 policies for 1,000 or loss were allowed to lapse, while only one policy for $250,000 was sur rendered." He adds that, while this latter policy hits since' been restored with many of the small ones, "num bers of those who gave up their poli cies at e not now insurable, while many have died during the year, leaving their families destitute, or nearly so, as Is proved by the letters received." President Morton Is Inclined to ascribe this condition to misapprehen sion and misrepresentation of the real facts and to blame "some newspapers" for it. The Bee does not feel itself In cluded In this designation because throughout the entire insurance inves tigation it has treated the subject from an eminently conservative and dispas sionate standpoint, yet at the same time it realizes the responsibility of the press to assist in reinstating life insurance In public confidence, although this re spoi'.sibility must rest primarily upon the managers of the Insurance com panies, who must so conduct their in stltt tions In the full light of publicity as to Justify restored confidence.- There Is no question but what the burden of the Insurance shake-up, s Piesident Morton points out, so far as it has fallen upon the policy holders, has hit hardest upon the small policy holders. The only way to remedy this world be to be as liberal an possible in tho terms of reinstatement, but even here the interests of the policy holders who have fulfilled all conditions of their contracts must be safeguarded. Those who maintained their faith un shaken' in' the sound insurance com panies through the period of exposure will not regret It, because they will ultimately reap" the benefits. MVCH i.V LITTLE. The action of the "World's Postal congress, in session In Rome, in pro viding for an international return post age stamp, although apparently a small thing, means much, especially to the oifeign-born people of this country. There are thousands upon thousands of foreign-born residents of the United States, and especially of this section of the United (States, who are In com munication with relatives and friends In their former homes across the sea and who bear the entire postage ex pense of letter writing. International postal regulations per mit letters mailed In European coun tries to be delivered In this country, pcttkge collect, but the fee collected Is twice the amount that it would be If prepaid. The newly authorized device will enable people here to purchase a return international postage stamp, or coupon, affixing one stamp to their letter and enclosing the other Inside of It, to be exchanged at the postofflce at the point of destination for a return stamp issued by the government of that country. This new departure may not 6ave n.ucb to the big commercial institu tions, but it means a great deal to poor people who can 111 afford to pay the excess postage of collect letters. It will probably be some months yet be fore this innovation is pnt into prac tical operation, but it will stfrely be welcome to all affected by it. THK PAPER TRUST. The aweeplng victory of the govern ment in the Paper trust case reveals the radical and far-reaching effect of the national anti-trust law when en forced by an energetic and resolute ex ecutive. The Paper trust was not an extreme type of the numerous combi nations to restrain trade, although there was general and vehement com plaint by consumers of news print and fiber paper of its control of prices as the exclusive felling agent of the whole output of the western paper mllls. But the result of vigorous and unrelenting prosecution is to establish the fact that this trust scheme is clearly hnd wholly within the prohibi tions and penalties of the Sherman act against conspiracies against competi tion and trade. The importance of the case, how ever, goes far beyond the interests of the immediate parties to it, because it has been the means of finally set tling a constitutional point vital to the enforcement of the law upon all great trusts and combinations, the poiut as to the governments right to lnfor- mation of the acts of a defendant cor- j poration or combine through lis ' books snd records and the testimony . or. Its officers and aeents. The gov ernment was confronted with their re fusal to testify or to ;rDduce record evidence, but the point being curried to the supreme court of the United States this bulwark of corporation evasion was forever destroyed by its decision, J and the Paper trust defense forthwith stability of the university as an edu collapsed. ! rational institution and Us future use- The landmark thus set up in the en forcement of the anti-trust law caubeg the delay of more than a year In this particular case to fade Into insignia- cance and will make it memorable in the history of the movement inaugu rated by President Roosevelt for sub jugation of trade conspiracies and corporation combines to the rule of law. One by one the law's delays and the technical evasions which so long proved for great corporations an Im penetrable shield to the attack of pub lic authority are being broken down, leaving them no alternatives but to submit or suffer the heavy conse quences. The offenders were powerful I and it tukes time to bring them tu book, but the way has now In a large measure been prepared so that the j H,'k wlu go forward more rapidly itAtt: hii.l asd tri'nsrri tai tks. Republicans may well view with equanimity the partisan turn to which the opposition in the senate Is now devoting every energy In the debate end votes on rate bill amendments. It has from the first been perfectly obvious that the opposition tactics was either to secure, if possible, divi sion among republicans, and, pretend ing to support the president, to claim credit for passing the rate measure, or, if the republicans were able to per fect and pass it by party vote, then to turn upon it all the batteries of de nunciation to prejudice the legislative result In the popular mind for cam paign purposes. The democratic speeches now daily filling the columns of the Congres sional Record accordingly are not real discussions of the great business in hand or directed to the merits of the subject, but stump speeches. Neces sarily they take the form, in large part,- of arraignment of President Roosevelt. It Is deemed an absolute partisan necessity to disparage him in popular estimation, because otherwise his endorsement of the rate measure in its final form would blunt the point of the democratic campaign now im pending. Hence the systematic effort to misrepresent the work of congress as it nears conclusion and to Impugn the good faith of the president, now that it is settled that he. backed by the republican party, is able, without a democratic vote and In spite of democratic schemes to divide the re publican party, to carry rate legisla tion through. It is merely a repetition of old democratic tactics, but it cannot suc ceed with reference to a subject on which public attention is .as thor oughly . concentrated as It now is on control of transportation corporations. Publicity is also a safeguard against partisan misrepresentation and the light of publicity never shone more clearly on a great public act in all its stages. In. that light popular confi dence in the president will grow stronger as the results gained by and embodied In the perfected rate meas ure are weighed in mature public Judgment. What is already known to have been gained is notable vindica tion of his courage, his fidelity and his power of leadership. To have been able to concentrate public opinion on corporation control as a paramount national need and thus to bring the matter irresistibly upon congress Is by itself, under all the conditions, a signal triumph. Even In the midst of democratic misrepresentation, now going full length, every day marks progress In embodying that triumph in law, and the people are not going to be fooled for one minute. PRESBYTERIAN BOOK OF irORSHP. It Is not at all surprising that the publication of a Book of Common Worship should start more than a rip ple of discussion within the Presby terian church, although the book Is put forward under authority of the general assembly, and Its preparation under the scholarly hand of Dr. Van Dyke has been in progress for two years. The singular thing Is that, the protest against such a form Is not more g neral and, violent, or that the church authority should, on due deliberation running over a series of years, have been able to reach the conclusion to put it forth. Presbyterianlsm was originally one of the most austere re actions against forms and ceremonial in religion, and the tendencies repre sented by the famous Scotch woman. Jennie Oeddes. who hurled her stool at the head of the clergyman for read lug prayers out of the Episcopalian Book of Common Prayer, have yielded with all the slowness characteristic of Presbyterian conservatism and tenac ity. Up till within the memory of men not yet old even a proposal of a book of worship would hardly have been ventured, and In many Jurisdictions an organ was not tolerated in church service. There has since been a more pronounced relaxation in the practices of most of the Presbyterian churches, in common with the other denomina tions. Undoubtedly historic distinc tions are being dimmed by general modem conditions and tendencies, and extreme differentiation among the de nominations Is falling away because their original cause is disappearing. Vet it is notable that the Presbyterian church even now has not prescribed the new form of common worship. which Is arousing opposition, but onl) authorized it for those Who have no i objection to its use It Is certainly gratifying to have President David Stnrr Jordan of Ice land Stanford university assure the public that although the loss suffered through the earthquake amounts to be tween $2,000,000 and $S.000,000, the fulness srs not impaired. As Presi dent Jordan says, "it is men. not buildings, which make a university," and its equipment la men and studsnta s is not subject to destruction by earth tremors. Forty years after the war the gov ernment is to tell of the operation of the navies of the north and south. At this late the true Inwardness of the Siiiinifih-Anierlcan war will be known sfler the magazine historians have subsided. 7he serious Illness of Carl Schun r fill is the fact that under some of the restrictive immigration laws now pro posed the United States would have lost the advuntage of the work and wisdom of such men. lino. Slftrr Roaila. St. IaiiiIs Ulobe-Ieiiincrat. Hai Tlnutn's recurd-brruktna; nins ttie continent are of no practical Mr. across value further than to shew that he Im n wifter pas than the ordinary railroad president. A Supplementary turner. , Washington Pot. "Merit alone is responsible for the lnmi-tu-ss of the Standard Oil company." eaya one of Its representatives. Which look If the officer of the Standard Iihvb also cornered the world's visible mipply of modesty. ('me aad Effect. Somervllle Journal. Somebody points with pride to the al iened fact that club women seldom get di vorced. Of course not. The club woman needs a husband to buy new guwns and pay club dues. Wouldn't Tltla Jnr Yost New York Post. Following the appointment of a million aire street cleaning commissioner In Cin cinnati comes the application of a million aire for the position of dog catcher In Omaha. Tn the west, at least, our rich men are willing to begin at the bottom. TrnuMea of the Tanr. Baltimore American. vThe czar may be weak and vacillating In his Judgment and conduct, but he cannot be Recused of lack of personal courage In determining to own the new rarlinment himself. On the whole, he seems to be suf fering principally from an uncongenial com bination of good intentions and bad ad viser. Rorky llnnior. Boston Globe. When the apologist of the oil monopoly asks If the people are "going tamely to submit to the czarlsm" of the president It is borne In upon the public mind that the admission of the trust magnates Into the circle of American humorists was far from a nominal honor. Their power of cracking popular jokes is quite as keen an the best of the professional In th? business. Helping- Out the Railroads. Philadelphia Record. The railroads will hardly fall to wel come the amendment of the Hepburn bill to abolish free passes. Borne of the most important of them have already anticipated the measure. It was left for the wisdom of Benator Morgan to prevent a stupid blunder which would have forbidden the railroad to extend free transportation to the victim of urh a calamity as that of Ban Francisco. REV ELATION OF THE K ARTHQl AKI. Dishonest Construction Exposed b;' the Tremors. Portland Oregonlan. Revelations made by the earthquake show that some of the Imposing Structure that made up the outward magnificence of Stan ford university were constructed with the view to cheapness rather than stability, though the cost was as great as if good material, careful engineering skill and hon est construction had entered Into them. Many structure, including the library and gymnasium buildings, and the gateway tn the campus, recently built at a cost of $:!3,00iv were thrown down like house of cardboard. Sadly viewing them, men pick up pieces of mortar that should be hard as rock and crumble it In their fingers, while looking in vain for the steel retain ing rods that, according to contract, should have supported the masonry. An object lesson In cheap workmanship and material, employed at a cost of the best In both lines, 1 presented by thee ruins. Here Indeed Is "graft" grimly illus trated; favoritism shamelessly exploited: money wantonly wasted; confidence ruth lessly violated. Mrs. Stanford might not have been the wisest woman In the world, but her generou intent toward the univer sity that bears the name of her lamented son I unquestioned. She poured out her money without stint in the hope and with the purpose of making Stanford university one of the stable institutions of the land. That she was Imposed upon Is made mani fest by a sudden spasm of nature. The revelation is a painful one. It outcome will be the modification In a subdued yet striking sense of the memorial features of Stanford university and their substitu tion by element that more fitly contribute to the development of a great educational purpose. rKHSOVtl. AD OTHKBWIIE. t'aat doubt to the winds. The straw hut is out. Old Vesuvius perpetrated aeveral nasty tricks, but the meanest of them was to bury in aehaa the signs of a real estate boom at Naples. If the average householder lias any change left after the ice man gets liia rakeoff, the camphor trust will scoop it In. Camphor balls are soaring high a l'u Rourke's flies. As an honorary member of the American Humorists' asHociallon, Mr. Rockefeller is getting precious little Inspiration for nut riment out of the present situation. I'oi sibly the approaching dividend period wlii produce a' smile or two. Those Indiana tremors should deceive no one. The writing and writhing of author in the throes of historical fiction or po etical agony cannot successfully compete Willi the real California article. Shaking ltooaiers should take something for it. What melancholy memories troop before Chlcagoans as they contemplate the threat ened collapse of the city hall. What a deluge of pitying tears must well up and proud hearts throb with sorrow as the dis- ,)f of lrroio bull(lrr, ru OM grait pm.rs hard by the door. fcvt'ii though the building perlxh ignobly, let the tablets be preserved at any cost Jokeph A. Wheelock, editor of the St. Paul fioneer-I'leKS, la dead at the age or 71 He was a force and factor In the de velopment of Minnesota for nearly half n century. His activities were not limit. i to the newspaper be controlled and directed. Bo masterful was his civic pride that be served on the St. Paul Board of Park Com missioner for years, and to his energy and kill la largely due the magnificent system of parks and boulevard now the pride and glory of Bt. Paul. Ill associates on the Pioneer-Press, in paying tribute to hi life work, have warrant for exclaiming. "If you would see mouumsnt. look around." EMI toe About fishing for Credit, when I advertise that YOUR CREDIT IS OOOIl and that I will soli you WATCIIKS, DIAMOMM. CUT (iLASH, KILV1CU WARK snd JKWKLRY on easy payment. I mean exactly what I say. OPEN A CIIAKGK ACCOUNT Wi lli MA.M'KLHKIU). This $30 Watch Comes in the new thin model styl e your choice of Elgin or Wal tham movements, fully guaranteed. A DOLLAR OR TWO t522FARA.M ST KRMOM ROILED DOWN. Strength in public must have source In private. The funeral kind of religion Is most prop erly dead. Ufe without restraint I without rlcht eousness. Trains of lies are made up by switching the truth. A little great man can always be 'filled with vanity. He who stands for the right will not come to a standstill. Reverent reasoning may be the best kind of a revelation. Ethics Is good and so Is a motor; but It needs a dynamo. Only the dead heart wants to be dead headed to heaven. Tou cannot learn to be a guide by study ing a guide book. No man gets worthy riches unless he Is willing to be poor. People will believe In the virtues of your character without the evidence of Its vin egar. A man' vocabulary 1 measured by hi dictionary; but his message depends on his heart. Tou do not have to throw prudence to the winds In order to prove that you steer by principle. When a man talk about the necessity of the divorce of religion and business the chance are that he Is not acquainted with either. Chicago Tribune. . KRCl I.AR SHOTS AT THK PI t. PIT. New York Tribune: The word obey 1 omitted from the form of marriage service In the new Presbyterian book of worship. The compiler evidently sought to bring the ervlce into closer conformity with the actual condition of married life. New Tork Post: The story that Dowle plans to establish a Zionist mission among the Indians Is made plausible by the ex planation that It Is to be among the "East ern Cherokees," whose claim for $4,5S9,5S8 ha Just been allowed by the supreme court. Philadelphia Record: It is said that John Alexander Powie proposes. If hi health shall be spared, to establish a new Zion on one of the western Indian reservations. The proposition to stop the spread of mon opoly by keeping in the possession of the government valuable oil. mineral and tim ber lands would be made still more provi dent and satisfactory If the reservation were so extended as to exclude the set tlement on top of t lie lands of prowling religious fakirs. Chicago Chronicle: Bishop Mallulieu preached an eloquent ernion at the First Methodist church on Sunday on the coming triumphs of the Christian faith and found occasion to Inform hi hearer that If they wished to enjoy good physical health they should avoid canned food. The connection lietween hi subject and the advice Is not apparent, but wc wish to say that we agree heartily both with the bishop's theology and with his dietetics. If any one wishes to live long In this world and go to heaven when he die he should follow the bishop' advice in both respects. Do It Now In the cleaning up. In the rearranging of the furniture, in chang ing the old for new and in making the home modern, do not forget the piano. A piano is the greatest source of pleasure, comfort, entertain ment, education and culture. It la so easy to buy a piano nowadays. 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"Minnie, do you think you could be happy with a man who earns only Jl5 a week?" "If you hod asked me that question a few days ago, Herbert, 1 might have said yes. but Tom Hussel asked me last night If 1 was willing to risk marrying a man with a salary of IIS and 1 told him I was." Chicago Tribune. Towne I hear you've got a first-class cook now. Browne Te, but I'm going to get rid of her. She's making my life unbearable. Towne How? Browne-Oh. my wife is always bothering me to get her gowns as swell a the cook wears. Philadelphia Press. Mrs. TA'hyte Is your husband even tern pored ? Mrs. Browne Well, yes, I suppose so. Sometime he's even bad tempered. Somer vllle Journal. "What I want," ald the young man. "is to get married and have a peaceful, quiet home." "Well," said Farmer Corntossel, "some times It works that way, and then again sometimes It's like Jolnin' a debatln' so ciety "Washington Siyr. Mayme Poor Archie! He doesn't, know whether It's Esmoralda McGlnnls or her younger sister that he wants to marry. Maybelle He needn't worry about that any longer. Mrs. McQinni haa decided that It's Esmeralda he wants. (,'hlcago Tribune. WISDOM OK TIIE OWL. Philadelphia Catholic Standard. 'Twas a city sparrow, wise and debonair. Idly loafing through the country with his mate. Stupid country birds were hullding every where, For the nesting time was growing very late. Rut the sparrow with his lady, .. In a treetop cool and shady. Gazed with acoin uiion the work and twittered: "Stuff:" To his male lie chirruped shrilly: "Isn't all this labor silly. When a roosting place at night Is qultt enough?" 'Twas a motherly old robin, near at hand. Who was busy with her building with the rest, And she turned upon the sparrows to tle mund How they meant to hatch their epg without a nest. "Such Impertinence!" half sadly Said the sparrow; "and yet gludly I'll Impart to you the knowledge that you beg." Then, with haughty condescension. He remaiked. 'i need but mention That It's possible to obviate the egg.'' 'Twns a congress of the birds of every s irt. All Indignantly assembled to protect Their displeasure, when the robin mad" re port Of the threatened abolition of the neat ; And they spoke of It as "awful." "Selfiah." "scandalous." "unlawful." And they prohpesled "the country speedy fall," But the sparrows, quite disdaining All this Ignorant complaining. Simply went their way, unmindful of It all. 'Twas a sage old ow l-a very solemn bin' -Sat and listened while his feathered fel low fought. Never once lie oped his mouth to say a word. But he did a lot of thinking and he thought: "So the sparrows think It best To abolish efces and nest. Well, perhapa the wisdom lan't theirs at all. But a plan of good Dame Nature To eliminate such creatures. Let them have their way. The loss is mighty small." AND WHITE C .10 c x