THE OMAHA DAILV BEE: KHIDAV, OCTDREK 12, 1906.
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Hid complete (oMC or The Dally, .-nomine.
Kvenlni; and fiiinday Bee prinlei. dunng
t::e month of September. 19"tr a
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CHARLES C: ROPKWATEK.
Oeneral Managur.
" Subscribed In my presence and swor.i
to before me this 1st day of October,
"(Seal.) M. B. HU NO ATE,
Notary Public.
OIT TOWS.
SaUarrtkers leavlag the city tew
wvrarlly akoald bar The Be
mailed to them. Address will fas
vhasjsed as eften si reajsjeatasl.
Ex-Bom. Croker- (.hows wisdom la
bringing' bis suit frir" libel as far away
from New York as poaslble,
Candidate Abbott may be workfog
harder, but be is not making as much
nolsa as wbn be campaigned for
Palmer and Buckner. -
If Nebraska club women successfully
avoid lajudicious resolutions, tbe mem
bers will again have demonstrated
their superiority to mete man.
Some people will fear that the Ohio
suit against trie Standard Oil com
; pan? is hot being urged with full vigor
N until Ida M. Tarbell Is called as a wit
ness. . .... .r "
lfthe- perpetrators of the two4 mur
ders committed l& aid abou'Otnaba
are not apprehended, it will not be be-
cause of Insufficient reward induce
ment. ' '
Aeronauts will note with satisfac
tion that tbe only persons hurt in tbe
race between, balloon and automobiles
were iboaewho elected to stay on the
ground.
Bulgaria's threat to send troops to
the frontier has produced activity on
the part of Turkey, but Bulgaria has
yet to see whether the actlvltyls satis
factory. ' . The rumor that the Union Pacific
:' Is to build a line to Texas may cause
. a alight change in political color at
' headquarters but, for Texas observa
tion only. " "
With a river rate four-sevenths of
(he railway rate between common
Itoiutij Kansas City and. St. Louis nave
lo decide between low rates and a
longer time In. transit- , , ,
With belligerents seeking cover,
General Funston la doubtless not dis
pleased to turtk his back on the island
where tbe chief activity win be in the
urgeon-ceneral's department.
.c ;y...
Front the way the World-Herald has
bee hammering the new democratic
mayor 'and city council to keep them
in line It plainly lacks the confidence
in them which it pretends to hold.
Whether or not Judge Baker's rul
ings tit the Standard Oil case at Find
lay stasd the test of higher courts
,i'(hey promise to bring out all essential
facts connected with the big merger.
t&ignptrpller Lobeck resents the im
putation and returns the compliment
to Expert Accountant Gilchrist. Mayor
Pullman may have to be called In
wrta nis scaies or justice to sit as
' referee.
. Some American banking methods
seem to have had quicker growth In
Cvba than American ltolitlcal Ideas,
but the private yacht of the absconder
inuisrhave been a purely southern In
novation.
It is charge) on good authority that
Sballenberger'' has. not only been
chronic free pass man, but that aa' a
member of congress he rode on passes
and then collected mileage from the
government. Nothing of that kind can
be truthfully charged against Sheldon.
"Indian officials at Washington who
have been Informed from time to time
try "fixed" Inspectors that conditions
were satisfactory on tbe Winnebago
reservation will be considerably sur
prised to learn through official than
nels that those conditions have been
4UUr improved during the past year.
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S.i 30,890
26 30,840
2J 30 150
21. ., is4,670
2t 36.600
30 30.6O0
vr.upLt: n i nnsr ftocsn.
i Although the I'nlted State supreme
court at Washington ha ocrerted to
j the demand of the tallroad attorneys
i for a postponement of the Nebraska
rallwnv tax thbs, the action of the
, t onrt at the same time In dismissing,
I the apfa'Kl of th- railroads touching
ftislng to pay their taxes in Nebraska
the railroads sought to enjoin the
treasurers of all the different counties
through which their roads passed from
collecting the anionnt levied upon the
asHCSHment made by the state board
and apportioned h the respective sub
divisions In excess of what they chose
to pay. While these suits' have been
combined for convenience of trial, each
case with a separate defendant Is dis
tinct In itself, and where the amounts
sought to be enjoined failed to reach
the figure of (2.000 the federal court
denied its Jurisdiction and refused to
Interfere.
This ruling as to the lack of Juris
diction has now been affirmed by the
supreme court, and as a consequence
the Burlington will have to pay its
taxes In full on the assessment which
it has questioned in eighteen counties,
and the Union Pacific will have to pay
Its taxes in full on the assessment
which it has questioned in six coun
ties. The taxes, therefore, remain at
issue for the final hearing only in
those counties in which the railroads
are trying to shirk payments in excess
of $2,000. The fact that they are com
pelled to pay their taxes in full in
these counties should and must be a
powerful argument why they should
nay their taxes without scaling in
other counties, because clearly sub
mission to the assessment along one
part of their lines and exemption from
the same assessment along another
part where the taxes are greater,
would constitute a rank piece of gross
discrimination.
Incidentally, the ruling of the su
preme court on the Jurisdictional point
throws a light uiton the position of the
Northwestern railroad, which has not
joined with the Burlington and Union
Pacific in fighting tbe tax levy. The
fact Is that the law officers of tbe
Northwestern take no different 'posi
tion from the law officers of the Union
Pacific and the Burlington, but had
discovered that they would have been
barred from the jurisdiction of tho
federal court except in a very few
counties where the Northwestern
might have disputed taxes in excess of
the $2,000 limit.. It would not pay
the Northwestern to make a fight for
the. small amount at stake, and -that
explains why that road' has been able
to pose aa the only good railroad, and
hold the Burlington and Union Pacific
up for public indignation and resent
ment. . . , .'
SKKATOR TILLXAS O.V tYKCHlXO-.
The confession of Senator Tillman
that "lynching has failed" as a remedy
for1 the crime for which it is has been
defended In the south ought (o stimu
late sober reflection there as well as
In other sections. No one has more
notoriously than the South Carolina
senator resorted to inflammatory senti
ments and language in treating of race
relations, and even In the public ad
dress in which this notable ickifession
was made the other day before a great
Georgia audience he nhowed a bitter
and oppressive spirit toward tho blacks
well calculat A to intensify mutual race
animosity and to promote the lynch
ing practice which he acknowledges
has "failed." ;
Not less significant than the sen
ator's admission is the statement
coupled with It that the situation in
volves "a burning issue." a failure to
settle which he predicts will soon bring
on wars and extensive riots In the
southern states. It has been hitherto
resented If outsiders it northern peo
ple can be called outsiders in any mut
ter of such universal ' concern have
pointed out the grave peril when' mil
lions of citizens of a marked race find
themselves unescapably proscribed and
finally despair of personal safety, not
to speak of justice.. The acknowledg
ment by a southern man of the type of
Senator .Tillman that a burning issue
has been raised in race relations which
tbe South, at Its peril, must now meet
In a different mauner from' negro
lynching, must be considered as an im
portant point gained, for consciousness
at this late day of the futility and
danger of a course may be the means
of Us abandonment.
HoosEVELra -vfcir york kk rsoTt.
Out of the confusion of ihe New
York situation comes tbe clear note
Inspired aa it is credibly asserted really
by no less a personage than President
Roosevelt: "No compromise or entan
glement whatever with Hearstlsm."
There has been pressure and plotting
among minor republican candidates
and the cliques and Interests back of
them in New York City and Brooklyn,
of whom there la a great multitude, to
arrange deals with Hearst's so-called
Independent league, the considerations
being purely selfish and office-seeking
and regardless of the broad Issue of
decent government that has been
drawn In tbe remarkaole 'contest be
tween Hughes and Hearst. At the critl
cal moment, however, the word haa
gone forth at the Instance of the presi
dent that no such dickering and palter
Ing will be countenanced or tolerated
by the republican organixation, and
thereupon an elaborate scries of
Hearst manipulations has come to
naught., "
It la well known that President
Roosevelt devoted his full Influence at
tbe outset to draw the line of battle
between tbe decent citizenship of tbe
state and tbe horde wbich Hearst has
.bid so high and recklessly to array be
bind him, and
lt waa tho president's
'initiative and persistence that secured
E. Hughes through the republican
nomination. The president permits no
doubt, now when selfish Interests and
candidates were conspiring with
Hearst to obscure that towering issue
by Inconsistent trades and combina
tions, that there niti't be no evasion
and that thV battle must be fought
out on the righteous line on which it
was begun.
It would indeed be far better for i
the party and the public interest to
be defeated in open battle than merely
to win any number of offices In a
mobbish scramble on the Hearst plane
of politics. But tbe way to win surely
is to fight it out on the president's
honorable and uncompromising plan,
which, fortunately. Is to be strictly
followed unless all present prospects
are deceptive.
.4 ysexA Ttoyisr aqua tiox.
The short session of congress, now
only a few weeks distant, will open
to Cuban annexationists an opportun
ity to prtjject themselves, which they
show disposition to improve, but from
which a commanding public sentiment
In favor of ungrudging co-operation
with the president's policy ought to
deter them. Nothing but mischief can
come at this time from the annexa
tionist agitation which is In view In
congress, for it would infallibly de
stroy the good wilt" of the Cuban
masses which Secretary Taft with con
summate tact has secured in spite of
abounding difficulties, and which is the
indispensable' condition of establishing
native self-government on a satisfac
tory basis. Our government now stands
committed to an occupation only for
that purpose and to withdraw as soon
as the purpose can be realized: To
start an annexation ferment in con
gress, even though by a minority,
would lend to excite Cuban suspicion
and embarrass the administration in
the work in hand, only the prelimi
naries of which have yet been begun.
It is history that congressional Inter
meddling and perversity have compli
cated our relations with Cuba at every
session since we withdrew from the
Uland. Opposition to a policy of good
faith with respect to sugar duties and
to general commercial arrangements,
the Isle of Pines agitation and the out
break over the proposed treaty be
tween Cuba and Great Britain are
samples of the spirit In congress which
has added greatly to the difficulties
of the executive department in steer
ing a straight course. Back of that
spirit has been all the while this same
annexation cupidity which is now pre
paring to bestir itself. The case, too,
is complicated with the undeniable
fact there Is an influential annexation
sentiment in Cuba Itself, particularly
among Americans, British, French,
Spanish and Germans resident there,
to whom is now added a large number
of Cubans. But the mass of. the na
tives are not only sentimentally de
voted to independence, but extremely
sensitive on the subject.'
It will at best be exceedingly difficult
to contrive and set on its feet a native
government that can be trusted to
stand alone. An assertive annexation
movement In congress just at a most
critical Btage of the administration's
program would, inevitably stimulate
plotters against Cuban independence,
while arousing the suspicions and ani
mosity of tbe mass of native anti-
annexationlsts, and might even precipi
tate turmoil that- would defeat the
sagacious policy so auspiciously inau
gurated.
Just one sure safeguard remains
against trouble, and that Is a public
sentiment that will Irresistibly demand
that congress shall loyally support
President Roosevelt and give his
Cuban program a fair and -thorough
trial.
Some emissaries of our amiable con
temporaries bave been trying to make
tbe near relatives of the murdered
Miss Rummelhart feel badly because
In explaining why The Bee procured
the offer of a reward In tbe case we
declared that the victim was a poor
working woman, occupying a lowly
station and without rich and Influen
tial friends, as if that cast a reflec
tion upon her. Miss Rummelhart's
character la not at all In question.
We are free to say that had she occu
pied a high station In life and bad
wealthy and influential relatives we
would have allowed her relatives to
offer the reward, although the atrocity
of the crime would have excited the
same abhorrence. We have our opin
ion, however, of the unscrupulous peo
ple who will take advantage of the be
wildered condition of grief stricken
women to work upon their prejudices
and passions by misrepresentation.
Our frleuds down at Lincoln have
given another exhibition by contrast of
their attitude toward Omaha. The
othei day they entertained a delega
tion of trade excursionists from St.
Joseph with a hospitable banquet, ten
dered by the Lincoln Commercial club,
at wbich tbe visitors were regaled with
warmest words of friendly welcome.
This is tbe sort of hospitality that
should be extended to the stranger,
but It will be remembered that when
the last delegation of Omaha trade ex
cursionists made a stop st Lincoln
tbey did not have even a hand of
greeting nor the sllgbeet attention
from the representatives of Lincoln's
business interests. ir Omaha were
only located In Missouri It would prob
ably be closer to Lincoln.
The Bee Is pleased to bsve from the
reputsble colored people of Omaha
words of appreciation of Its broad pol
icy for a square deal for all, whether
white or black, as contrasted with the
wanton hysterics of other papers will
fully calculated to incite race riot
The way to show their appreciation In
a. substantial manner Is for the Intelli
gent colored people to read The Bee
J regularly as their dally newspaper.
When the democrats boast about re
deeming promises made in their last
city campaign, remember that the first
attempt at redeeming a promise would
not have been made except for the vote
of the lone republican member of Ihe
council.
Oatrlassed.
Portland Oregonlun.
Bryan's speeches nowadays arc noise
less, compared with those of Hearst.
Heal lesae Overlooked
Kjiis-js City Star.
It is strange that Mr. Bryan doesn't
realise how much more of a hit lie could
make by contending for the government
ownership of flitted States senators than
by exploiting the doctrine of government
ownership of railroads.
A Whiskered Bebake.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The republican candidate for governor
of New .York is now. being referred to by
some of bis enthusiastic followers a
"Charley" Hughes. It must require a
good deal of courage to call a man
"Charley" to his face when be has such
whiskers as Mr. Hughes wears.
A ( ! Problem.
Philadelphia Record.
One of the great problems that con
fronts Judge Magoon In Cuba Is a re
construction of the Judiciary' ff the re
public on an Independent tixsts. TMa ,
can ne accomplished only by the adoption
of views that will relieve the Judges from
the dependence on the political power to
which they are now subjected..
Railroad Capitalisation aaa tuaralaaa.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The railroads of the United States
earned the tremendous sum of t2.08i.483,
406 during the fiscal years 105-6, show
ing an Increase of tl07.30S.31S over the
preceding year. The capitalization of tho
roads doing this enormous 4uelnes la
J13.8U5.Z56, 121. which Is the equivalent of
M5.t: a mile. This does not represent
near so heavy an investment per mile as
the roads of the I'nlted Kingdom were
compelled to make, but the greater cost
of the British roads Is due chiefly to the
necessity of paying large sums for rights-of-way.
In this country, with rare excep
tions, the attitude of communities toward
railroads haa been generous, and tt is that
fact more thun any other which has pro
moted the rapid growth of our Internal
transportation system, which, in spite of
our fault-finding, is- universally recog
nized as the cheapest and most efficient
on the globe.
DANGER OF t KXTR AM.KU WEALTH
Webster's Waralsg aad Macanley'a
Prediction Recalled.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Senator William Plnkney Whytc's cita
tion of Macaulay'e prediction in 1wT. of the
time toi come when, "in the state of New
York 'a multitude of .people, none of whom
have had more than half a breakfast or
expect to' have -more than half a dinner,
will choose a letrliliitwro," applies It to the
present New York campaign. The Tuct Is
that the; danger' to republican Institutions
of great' wealth ori 'one hand and a large
population of little ,or no means on the
other, was plain!;, stated in tills country
before Macaulay. and by everi higher au
thority. Daniel WebBtar tn. without
derogation . to jjacaalay. be given higher
rank as an expound of the constitutional
principles on which' democracy must roly.
Jn his address on 1 ''The Foundations of
New England" he plainly aet forth the
natural law that 'stable republic wilt not
survive If wealth "Is concentrated In few
hands and the majority of the population
Is left with little Interest In property. The
difference between the two waa that Ma
caulay predicted as Inevitable the creation
of vnt masses of practical pauperism,
while Webster dwelt on tbe principle of
public policy that under a truly democratic
system rrtnst favor the distribution of
property and wealth among the masses.
Neither could foresee the agency of cor
poration abuses In bringing about the per
ilous conditions. Bnt In view of the fact
that the methods' by which corporate pow
ers have been employed for the vast en
richment of individuals Involved a viola
tion of the principles which Webster derlned
the question stllf remains w hether Web
ster or Macaulm' was the truer prophet.
It is for this and the next generation 'o
answer that question by showing whether
or not It can reform the abuses of cor
porate management and bring that system
Into harmony with ihe democratic distribu
tion of wealth.
KIGHT-HOl R DATS OX KAH MS.
Peritlraltthea mt the ler Oliaerred la
Maesarhasvtta.
Chicago Tribune.
The Massachusetts Agricultural t-ollege.
one of the best institutions of the kin
in the country, U In a qusudary Mils year.
The Massachusetts legislature has passed
a law limiting to eleht hours Ihe work
of all employes of the state. Tho agri
cultural college finds It neressary to em
ploy a number of helpers In the stables
and on the land attached to the school,
and under the law none of thee .helpers
must work more than etglit hours. . T'o
authorities of the -follege have not yet hit
upon a program whieh permits all farm
labor to he done "wlthtn thj c-lght-hour
limit without causing an expense not con
templated n -the last annual appropria
tion, an In any case there is a waete of
time which Is not relished by the men any
more than It la by. the managers.
Kor example, it is twelve-hours between
one milking of a row snd the next milk
ing. If the same man haa been set to
milk the cow both times the law haa been
violated unless be has been Jn a state of
enforced idleness during four or nve hours
of the intervening time. Contemplate the
feelings, pf the farm superintendent when
a summer thunder storm Is muttering in
the distanoe, at, say, I o'clock In the aft
ernoon, and the hay must be left exposed
to tbe ralu because, the. men have already
worked eight hour Fines and Imprison
ment are the reward of 'the man who
tries to save the suite's properly under
such conditions.
Other 'complications, such as can read
ily be. Imagined by any one who knows
of the manifold duties of life on the farm,
are not jestina matters to the unhappy
stale officials. It baa. needed only this
revelation of the actual workings of the
eight-hour law on the farm In set the
Massachusetts farmer to thinking. In
the last analysis It Is the farmer who
pays the taxes. The farmer works all
day, hlmaelf, and when he is driving
along the road and sees the farm laborer,
whose wsges he pays, swinging In a ham
mock.' reading novels or playing golf for
exercise, while the sun Is still high ' In
the heavens, he may well begin to wonder
why. hla irpresentatlve In tbe legislature
la so much more sparing of the paid em
ploye of the state than of the hard work
ing taxpayer. He may even question
whether t a farm can be considered a
model for his sons to study where the
law rompels the hltjing of twice as many
nun aa the farmer blniself could afford
to use for the same work. First lessons
In bankruptcy should not be substituted
for lustiuvtloh In scientific agriculture.
ROIMl AIIOt T F.W YORK.
Hippies n the (arrest of l ife la the
Metrplla.
A gtwt crowd of Italian. Hebrew ami
Polish women surrounded a public school
In Brooklyn, nngrily demanding their chil
dren. It was a repetition of a similar scare
that occurred In Msnhsttan last spring.
eauned Kv one t-nmin w-hn ran screaming
thtouh ,h streets upon learning that a
doctor wns Inspecting the school which
her daughter attended. The Brooklyn
fright was slurted by a mother's misunder
standing of her child's remark about the
j visit of the school doctor next day. Work
; Ing herself Into a freniy of fear, the
! mother started for the school, crying to
other women as she went that doctors were
cutting the throats of their children. She
quickly gathered a mob around the school
building and the school was dismissed to
restore peace.
The big skyscrapers bordering on and ad
jacent to the Battery and Bowling Green
have not all' been as profitable as their
owners expected. The supply of office
rooms heretofore has exceeded the demand
and there have always been more empty
suites than there wero appbeants for ten
ancy. Some of the larger structures have
not paid their owners more than 1 ier cent
on the investment, and even the more
favored buildings have nut yielded more
than 1V4 or 2 per cent. However, wlthlti
the last two or three months applicants
have been taken aback to learn that de
sirable rooms and suites are becoming
scarce In this neighborhood and that rents
have increased Su per cent and In some
cases (0 per cent.
This change In the stale of affairs has
been brought about solely by the fact that
the custom house is to be finished within
a short time. The opening of the custom
house will necessarily bring a large amount
of business lo the neighborhood. Hence,
In accordance with the law of supply and
demand, renting space will soon be at a
premium.
Lawrence Uilderrleeve, a well known
young man at Huntington. j. I., whose
neck waa broken four years ago, has just
been made attendance officer of the Hunt
ington High school. He entered upon his
duties last week.
Oildersleeve's case Is considered one of
tbe most remarkable on record. That he
lived at all was believed to be a marvel.
He is now able to Ilsh and hunt and. drive
and enjoy other active sports usually re
served for the strongest.
While tiildersleeve. with sonic other
Huntington young men. on Thanksgiving
dsy, I0Z. was playing foot fall at Mlnuola,
fifteen men piled "themselves upon him,
and when they arose he lay limp und
Inert. He was takan to bis home to die,
as his friends believed, for a doctor had
pronounced his Injury to be a broken
back.
Dr. William B. Gibson, the family phy
sician, saJd the fractured vertebra might
cause death, but that the case would be
fought to the end and be hoped to save
the young man, whose physique was splen-
rdld. Week after week the patient lay upon
a water bed. wasting away, unable to
move hlb head even the fractional part of
an Inch, eleven times he was oelleved to
have succumbed to what Is known aa
false pneumonia.
After three months of constant battle
Oilriersleeve began to mend. 'The broken
bone was knitting and he was gaining
strength. Gradually the Improvement pro
ceeded. The lack of the active exercise
to which he had been accustomed pre
vented the patient from fully recovering
his former strength, but hta Improvement,
once begun, was steady. Little by little
he took up hla former exercise, and he
ran now safely undertake anything any
other active young man of 17 can do. He
no longer' baa to bold himself with head
erect to avoid all possible strain upon
his neck, which is now strong.
Street car passengers Id New Terk are
more patient In a blockade caused by a
fire than In any other kind of a jam, ac
cording to one conductor. "I have seen a
whole carload get mad enough to bite be
cause they were unable to hurry on tnetr
way,'.' he explained, "but the minute the
word waa paaeed along the line thut
a Are waa holding them back tuny
brightened up wonderfully. Borne folks,
on the other hand, like to be held by a
procession, but they are generally the ones
up near the head of the . line. Nobody
seems to like weddings. One day last
week we ran into a 'swell affair of that
kind. There were so many carriages In
front of the church, and It took so long
to unload the guests, that we walled for
ten minutes while an officer cleared the
way. Most of my passengers were women
and I had expected their tender hearts to
thrill with sympathy; on the contrary,
every last one of them got hopping mad
because I didn't run down the whole
party."
An ingenious New Yorker has Invented a
simple little tab forming
part of the
pasteboard disk for milk bottles which j
promises te yield nun a large loriune. grt.al lny are , n,ctal workers .Lund
The simple device is of more practical decorale, ordinary tin with characteristic
value than nine-tenths of the larger house- . dettgn, in colors and Illuminates an ordi
hold patents upon which thousands of . nILrv lr-.. or j... that wollid ntherwlse he
dollars are annually expended. How many
forks, hairpins, Icepirks and acre wd rivers
were ruined In a month before this tab
was discovered; how much material pa
tience was shsttered by the trtek the
little slabs of paste-board developed of
submerging themselves In the bottles?
Then some one bethinks himself or her
self of cutting out a stopper with a tab
on It. You pull the tab and the stopper
lifts eut aa good aa pie. The Inventor is
certainly a public benefactor.
By the amendment to the labor law regu
lating the employment of rhildrnti, en
acted by the last legislature and taking
effect October 1. no person under 1 may
be employed in any factory In the state
before a. m. or after 11 p. m. In New
York City the employment of. children
under 1 is prohibited after p. m. In
any . mercantile establishment, business
office, telegrsph office, restaurant, hotel
or apartment house, or In the distribution
of merchandise or messages. No child
under 1 and no woman may work In any
mine or quarry.
New York Is to experience a complete
transformation of Ita cab service within
the next week. r One hundred autovehlcles,
equipped with an Ingenious device, which
registers automatically and in full view
of the passenger the number of miles
traveled and the amount due for time and
distance, will be placed in operation, and
will be the vanguard of an army of revo
lution which la to extend to every city
In the I'nlted States. Not only will the
patron be protected against Imposition,
but the cab company Itself will have a
registration of every cent collected and
every mile traveled. The "taxmeter" Is
the name given to the device, which Is a
German invention.
Salatlaa far Tw STofcleass.
Baltimore American.
If Governor Magoon could induce a
large number of Cubans to emigrate to
Panama and begin werk en tbe canal the
solution of two problems might ba ren
dered much easier.
lost Ball Hales All HUM.
Cleveland I-eader.
The new foot ball rulea are evidently ail
right In spits of the apprehensions of the
college hoe. Twe players hare been killed
alr sdy and tbe eessou has hardly opentd.
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t .MFORM DIVORCE LAW.
r-rajeeted Meetlaa- of State Delegates
la Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Recor.
Next month the congress 6f state dele
gates charged with the preparation of uni
form divorce laws will meet in this oily
under most favorable auspices. Religious
and secular sentiment are agreed that the
best Interests of society Imperatively de
mand that divorce be discouraged and that
the permanent character of marriage
should be Impressed upon the persons en.
taring the matrimonial state. It may be
doubted whether many persons on the
point of marrying deliberately reflect that
If they do not like the experiment it will
be easy to abandon It, but It cannot be de
nied that where divorce Is notoriously com
mon marriage Is not to tho general appre
hension the solemn and permunetit condi
tion that religion and the well being of so
ciety demand that It should be.
Something has already been done to
check the disposition to seek divorces by
forbidding remarrtuge within a year. As
divorces are usually obtained with a view
to another marriage, this must have a dis
couraging tendency In states where the law
exists, but Its Influence Is reduced by the
facility for going Into another state which
is less particular and getting married there.
The lot of the unhappily married Is so
wretched, and tbe condition of persons sep
arated but not allowed to remarry again
Is so little conducive, to right living, that
the secular authority is not likely to pro
hibit divorce or the marriage of divorced
persons at least of the inuocent parties to
divorce. But secular sentiment Is quite
ready to join religious convictions In doing
all that can be done to discourage divorce,
to limit It to very grave conditions and to
Impress upon persons about to marry the
expectation of society that the atate they
are entering will last until death.
reawom kotf,.
J. J. Hill's favorite hymn: "One sweetly
solemn thought comes to me ore and ore."
Messrs. Bailey and Crane of Texas are
drawing crowds a t( their. Joint debates, as
each occasion seems likely to develop Intd
a ring event.
The emperor of Austria scarcely ever
ahakea hands, even with the most exalted
visitors or privileged persons. His usual
form cf greeting la a courtly bow.
Arrangements ure being msds by the
Cambridge Historical society for the cele
bration on February ZJ next of the Henry
WadVworth Longfellow centennial. The
principal address will be made hy Wllllum
Dean Howells.
For the first lime In the history of Mis
sissippi sh a state, a woman is a full
fledged member of the . governor's staff,
the appointment ' having been ' made by
Governor Vardanian of Miss Henrietta
Mitchell aa ald-de-camp. with rank of
colonel. The young lady has been a leader
In society at the Mississippi capital fur
some time-, and Is an accomplished horse
woman. Carl 1. uncle, a Norwegian artist, has
1 m(lB himself famous by painting on metal.
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FLASHES or FIA.
"X hear yoor machine klll'dTa man yea.
terdsy. Of course, you must regret it."
"Regret it! Bay. they're trying to make
me pay the funeral expenses. And the
machine was damaged at that." Philadel
phia Press.
"He's a popular poet."
''Dear me! Why, I thought he hadn't
written anything for years-." '
"He husn't: that's why he's so pofiulsr."
Chicago Journal.
jaiKing auoui invenuuup. aaiu ma
business man, "I have a little machine
in my place that would make me a million
nlre. If 1 could ony keep II going all the
time."
"What Is It?"
"A cash register." Philadelphia Ledger.
"You should not lace so tightly. Mist
Jones. Constant pressure st the waist
niUMt be bad for your health."
"That's true only of er artificial pres
sure. Is it not?" Cleveland Leader.
"Have you made rrangementa to pre
vent fraud In the election?"
"No," answered Senntor Sorghum: "t
couldn't quite manage Unit. But I've dona
the next best thing to defeat the opposi
tion's Iniquity; I've made arrangement
that'll make their fraud so Insignificant
by comparison that It won't be noticed.
Washington Htar. .
"Tou haven't changed milliners, have
you?"
"Yes. I guess Madame Chlffone dldn I
care for my cuatom any longer."
"What makes you think so?"
"Khe told me that a hat I liked was toe
young for me." Cleveland Plain Dealen
"Didn't you say that the , nosne must
go?"
"I did."
"And here you ere setting yourself u
aa a boss."
if . nn... i -1
id the
wanted the other fellows to go?" Phlladel
phla Ledger.
"That girl is a dream!"
"Yes. the kind that makes you hleas th
Inventor of alarm clocks." Baltlmora
American.
"Remember," said the
man.- "there ere things In
nielodra-matle
this life that
money cannot buy. ' -
"Yes." anmrenrd the Impecunious per
son wearily, "but I had enough of them
long ago. What I want, now is change."-
Waphlngton Ptar.
AVTTSlK.
8t. Louts Republic'
In the blur of the dusk
Drifts the smoke from the leaves.
And the wit he sing husk
Hustles softly and grieves
For the flower that blushed
In the glow of the dawn.
For the bird song Is hushed
And the summer Is gone,
And at noon Is a. haze
On the forest-clad hi II.
And the rivulet pluys
In a world that Is etill
In a world that Is hare-
Where the meadows were spread
As a carpeting fair.
For the summer la dead.
And the listening trees
fteem to ask of the sky
Where all of the bees
That one day hastened by
With their hurden of sweets
On their wings that were sped
With the swiftest of heats .
Now that aummer has fled. ' j-
But the meadow Is brown.
And the vines are asleep.
And the leaves flutter down ' -
Till they drift In a heap,
And the apple turn red
Till thee fall ons by one,. '
And the skies are aa lead
Now thai summer la done.
In the blur of the dusk
Drifts the xpiniest scent
Myrrh, f rsnklnrense and rrtusk
Not more sweetly sro blent.
And our sacrifice now ....
Is the sltar upon: .
. Nrsth the inok-wrea.ha .we bow
For the summer Is xone. v
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