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TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: NOVEMBER IS, 190f. B TlffiOMAiu Sunday Bee FOUNDED BY EDWARD R08KWATr.fi. , viCTon rose water, editor. $Lntered at Omaha posUIIcu ns a-;coiiU-class matter TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Dally lie (without Sunday), on vear..I.M Dallv H and Sunday, one je.ii 8 " Sunday Uee, one yt..r t Saturday Hee, one year 1" DELIVERED HY CARRIER Dslly lice (including Bundav), f r wi ck. Vc Dnlly liee (without Sunday). T wek..l: Evening Hen (without 9'iiiiliv, per week t Evening Bee (with Sunday). r,,,r week Address complaint of irrej.'ti..iritips in d1!- , livery to City Circulating Department- ; OFFICEd. I Omnha The Bee building. ! South Omnha City Hull building, i Council Bluffs K I'enrl street, j Chlruro tnltv liullil'.iiir New York IPS Hiune I.I re ln. building. WMhlngton-r.nl Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to n's and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha liee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit hv drnft t,re nr nostal order payable to The Reo Publishing company. I Ohly 2-cent stamps received payment cf i mall accounts. Personal checks except on ' Ohishn or estrn exchanges, not accepted, j iHKi UK& PLREISHIMJ lUfai. STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. Sttt of Nebraska, Douglas County, as: Charles C. Itosewater. ger.er! miinaner of The hoc Publishing conpnnv, tieing duly worn, ny, tnRt ,ne rnial number if full nd eompiete copies of The Dally, MornlnK. Evening and Sundav Hen printed d'-irlng the mimm or uctotier. 1306, was an lonnw- 1 30,650 1 30.800 1 30,800 1 30,730 1 30,760 31,760 f 30,300 30,670 1 30.690 It 30,730 11 30,990 It 30,780 II 31,050 II 30,800 II 31,480 17 30,830 ; II 30.9JO , It 31.390 20 31,230 I ;i 31,800 it 30,833 21 30,B';0 24 30,830 28 31,870 28 31,410 27 31,740 28 30,670 2J 31,800 20 31,110 tl 31,110 II 88,000 Total 601,330 Less unsold coplea 11,083 Net total aalea 800,337 Pally average 30,654 C. C. ROSEJVATEH. General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to baforo me this lat day of November. 1J6. (Baal.) M. 11. HLNV.ATE, Notary 1'ubllc. WHEN OCT OF TOWN. Subscribers leaving; the city tem porarily should have The liee mailed to thesa. Address will be changed as often as requested. That North Carolina Jury has given a Valuable tip to lynchers. Hereafter the sheriff may be taken along. After Its recent political experience Iowa may look with greater leniency upoa a law' to permit prise fighting. A landslide on tin: Panama railroad probably convinces the president that the canal cannot be opened too soon. Since the latese uoer raider" has been captured Irish home rulers can pursue their program without outside interference. Personal experience will enable President Roosevelt to deal with some features of canal construction, notably that of landslides. Senator Burton la said to be study ing the Bible; but will probably find the book a better preventive of trou ble than a remedy. Customs houses, in addition to re flecting the general prosperity of the nation, are supplying most conclusive arguments against the "tariff rippers." By the time the felted States has completed the Panama canal it will look upon the doep waterway from the lakes to the gulf as a mere bagatelle. A Japanese fleet is scheduled to ar rive at San Francisco next year. The school board and Commander Hobson should prepare accordingly. Attorney Miner will probably find himself handicapped by being called to the Standard Oil's defense after the "Immunity bath" has grown cold. The report that a Methodist bishop Is lit as the result of a chicken bone lodged la his throat Indicates that the barnyard fowl has begun to object to Its traditional fate. Those who attribute the uegro's con dition la the south to his Indolence Bhould Investigate the conditions. Such wages as he receives is hardly an In centive to bard work. Those wno expected Governor Ma goon to resign on complaint of Cuban liberals failed to tako into considera tion his natural desire to tee what the liberals would do If they could not oust hfm. A glance toward Washington, where the survivors of the Knights of Labor are In session, should be a valuable object lesson to the American Federa tion of Labor when it discusses politi cal action. . Twenty-five years oi state aided In surance for working pec;ilo finds Ger many well pleased with the system; but Anglo-Saxons on both sides of the ocean will probably be content with their poor houses. The Missouri river Is just as stiS'-ep-tlble of navigation today as it ever was, and Its channel Is much mare InvlUng becr.use It is more free from snags. Who will be the first to endow a fleet to plow the turbid waters and thread the fugitive channel of the "MlssooT" Those fortj-six Douglas county voters who took the trouble to register them selves as opposed to the constitutional amendmeut proviulsg a board of rail road commissioners to:' Nebraska a: a doubtkta men of str- ii ( onvirtions Their Judgment is opeu to question, nevertheless. sha'ixo aiait .voonr. Signs are appearing In various di rections portending a movement on the part of the allied corporate inter ests to prevent confirmation of the ap pointment of Attorney General Wil liam II. Moaiy to the supreme bench, to which the president has announced his Intention to promote him. Objec ticr.D ure being raised to the selection of .Mr. .Moody to a hlsh judicial posi tion which illy diKEulse the One Ital ian hand of the astute corporation lawyers, aiways careful to hide their Hacks. These all lnalit that the pres ident made a mistake In choosing Mr. Moody for (he supreme court vacancy, and while pretending to endorse his fitness and qualifications, urge the un timellness of the appointment because of conditions which his ascent of the bench would produce. Among other things we are told that the investiture of Mr. Moody with the Judicial robe would cost the gov ernment millions of dollars, that he would bo prevented by custom and precedent from sitting on any case In which he had directly or Indirectly1 represented tho government as a party to the suit, and that many cases of ut most public Importance would have to be dismissed altogether, or could not be tried by a full bench. An effort Is being studiously made to Impress the public with the multiplicity and Im portance of the prosecutions brought under the trust Hw3 and the suits against the railroads from which Mr. Moody, as judge, would be barred. The real difficulty, however, Is to be found not In the cases on which Judge Moody would be prevented from sit ting, but in the cases in which he would sit. We have a striking exam ple pending right now In the appeal In the Nebraska railway tax cases, for which the railroad attorneys secured a special postponement a month ago on the plea that they wanted to wait until tho vacancy was filled so that It could be tried to the entire comple ment of Judges. They did not dream that Mr. Moody was the Judge for whom they were waiting or they would have taken the other tack and pressod for Immediate hearing. They hoped that the new judge would be a lawyer of known corporation proclivities, or, at any rate, preferred to take a chance upon finding a friend in the new ap pointee. They can expect no favors beyond "a square deal" from Attorney General Moody and hence would much prefer to have his nomination held up and someone on closer terms with the corporation crowd put in his place. This condition Is doubtless duplicated In many other cases. If Mr. Moody had shown corpora tion bias as attorney general he would In all probability be immune from the attacks upon him now. At least they would not come from the same source Mr. Moody has proved himself to be a man of Independence, yet of fairness as well. Those who are laying the foundation for opposition to his con firmation should let well enough alone rather than Invite the appointment of someone still more obnoxious to them. A Kir AURICCLIVRAL, METHODS. The success of an agent of the De partment of Agriculture, after a sen sational experience in finding in north ern Siberia a variety of alfalfa sulta blo to the arid land3 of our cold north west, will attract special attention to the work of the department, but It Is more important that tho general pub lic bhould realize that the department's energies are ceaselessly directed to the same end all over the world. There Is hardly a zone or a district on the globe, whether habitable or not. In which systematic search is not being prosecuted by our government to dis cover forms of vegetable and animal life which may be transferred with profit to our own country. It is only recently that our own farmers, as a class, have awakened to the magnitude and Importance of the results thus already achieved In their particular Interest. Those results hare indeed been vital In the Immense transfer of population westward of the ninety-eighth meridian the last two docade3. It Is, In large part, the new varieties of grasses, grains and vegeta ble growths gathered from all quarters of the earth, where they had been developed under special conditions rendering them adaptable to our arid and Bubhumld districts, that have made possible recovery from the early abortive and disastrous efforts to peo ple and cultivate them, and which now, with Irrigation and new methods for conservation of molBture make that region one of the most prosperous and rapidly developing in the whole country. The samo crops and methods that sufficed In the area of abundant rainfall weBt of the Allegheny moun tains, and which the farmers who niov'd on westward were accustomed proved a failure when introduced Into the arid and seral-arld tracts. A small pcrrentnge of the farmers began to adapt themselves to the different con ditions, but their progress would have been slow and fitful but for the gov ernment's cgrlcultural organization, world-wide in Its s?ope and working out the results practically through the j experiment stations, national and ' state, the agricultural colleges, the ; fanners' associations and an elaborate ! publicity system of Its own. j The agriculture of Nebraska, which ' is one of the tier of ;reat states I stretching from the Canadian boundary i to the Hlo Grande, overlapping tho . line between abundant and deficient jrplnfall. r.trlkir.gly Illustrates the ; transformation wrought the last ten ; years by the Introduction of new , vc;:etr.ble forms and new methods of 'cultivation, fit to these varied condl ! tlons. For in the meantime millions jot acres which were formerly judged worthless have thus become fruitful and valuable and the theater of a thriving farm industry. It is precisely In this direction that the Increasing pressure of surplus population from the older settled regions Is destined to be felt Indefinitely In the future. But with the development of the work of the Department of Agriculture, which, important as Its results already have proved, Is yet ouly In Its begin ning, an almost Illimitable field for expansion will be opened up and rap Idly occupied. RAILROAD DCST THROW1XO- The attention of our readers Is called specially to a most Interesting letter In another column from Attor ney General Hadley of Missouri, giv ing his views on important phases of the railroad problem. The railroads In Nebraska, as well as In Missouri, have been contending that rates on local traffic within stato boundaries are to be regarded as entirely separate and diitlnct from through rates and, furthermore, that the local rates can not legally be reduced below the point where they are now fixed, because if reduced in the slightest they would not by themselves pay the entire cost of operation and fixed charges within state lines with which they are loaded by the railroad accountants. Mr. Hadley shows convincingly that the arguments of the railroads are merely of the dust-throwing variety and that there is no hard and fast de marcation between local and through business. Much of the local traffic Is actually carried on through trains in cars merely picked up or detached from time to time at the several points of destination. Mr. Hadley cites tes timony to show that the extra cost of local as against through freight busi ness Is no more than from 10 to IB per cent, whereas everyone knows that the ratio of local to through freight rates Is out of all proportion to that percentage. As The Bee has pointed out, the plea had been made In Nebraska to justify this extortionate discrimination that the local traffic should also be saddled with the entire fixed charges for that part of the roadj within the state having the through business free from such fixed charges. As Attorney General Hadley says, "there has been much Juggling on the part of the rail roads in this class of litigation," but the time Is at hand when the courts as well as the public will see through the railroads' game of thimble-rigging and give some measure of relief. The way Attorney General Hadley Is going at the core of the matter is at least reassuring and is certain to pro duce ultimate. If not Immediate, re sults. THE PflRSDfcAT AT PASAMA- No one imagined at any time that President Roosevelt's visit to Panama partook in the slightest of the nature of a junket, and the record of his movements since arriving throw into bold relief the seriousness of his pur pose. The arduous investigation of the work to which he has devoted every moment of his time, the public and social demonstrations being mere Incidents, shows his Intense earnest ness for knowledge and for every re quirement that will forward the enter prise to successful completion. No one on the isthmus or elsewhere will doubt that the visit is official and means business, or that It Is merely the pre liminary to a campaign of Increased efficiency, which will not cease so long as he is president of the United States, and the effects of which will be felt long afterwards. The president thus once more sig nally illustrates his faculty of putting himself in line with the dominant in terests and desire of bis countrymen, for on hardly any other subject is pub lic opinion more thoroughly aroused than on the importance of this historic undertaking. There may be, and there have Indeed been, a few carping critics who would prefer a more conventional chief executive, or one who would not transgress beyond tho formal functions of a mere official figurehead, but the overwhelming and enthusiastic Judg ment of the world will be that the country is fortunate to have In the president's office a man alert and In stinct with zeal and force to drive for ward such great national undertak ings. THE RWSKLL SAU1C MILlHhVS- The progress of Mrs. Sage's effort to dispose of her colossal fortune di rectly to deserving poor individuals, and not through the instrumentality of public charities, will be wa,tched with Interest. There is evinced, how ever, a general disposition to honor her motive rather than to approve the wisdom of her method. Her desire that her wealth shall not go to impair self-help and ambition nor to nourish those who have brought upon them selves the consequences of Idleness and vicious habits, but rather to re lieve those who, though industrious, honest and worthy, are unfortunate, surely is most commendable. It Is indeed the aim of all intelligent char itable effort, but its evolution has demonstrated the necessity cf system atic and permanent organization. It is represented, so far as the larger operations are concerned, chiefly by our system of public charities, which indeed by the measure of their ad ministrative economies make small do nations more effective. Mrs. Sage cannot, of course, per sonally Inquire into and know the merits of more than an Infinitesimal fraction of her beneficiaries It her whole huxe fortune is to be disposed of during the few years of life that at best can now remain to her. She would b engulfed In the mass of Hadley on Railroad Rate Making CITY OF JEFFERSON. November 14. 193. To the Editor of The 1W: t have read with Interest your comment u un the pi op osltlon contended for by the lu.lroad com panies In their opposition to the regulation of state rates by the different states. I narep with you thnt the facts In reference to the expense of doing local or Intrastate bualncxs have been grossly misrepresented by the railroads to the courts .of the vari ous states and to the federal courts. The success of the rnilroads In the various freight rate .rases has been largely duo to the fact that they have tieen successful in Inducing the courts to believe that It costs from three to seven times as much to haul a ton of freight per mile In the ddng of intrastate freight business ns It does In the doing of Interstate freight busine. s. This contention seems to have been accepted by the representatives of those states that have been engaged In such litigation as correct, and the facts upon which such contention is basd have been given little or no investi gation. In the litigation now pending In the Pnited States circuit court at Kansas City bctwoen the eighteen railroads In Missouri and the state of Missouri, In which It Is contended by tho railroads that the act of the last legislature is confiscatory, this time-worn contention of Increased cost of doing state, as compared with tho cost of doing Interstate business, constitutes the basis of the suits. I huve made this the main Issue In the litigation, and from a careful Investigation by competent experts, I am satisfied that there Is no difficulty In the legal proposition established by the de cision of the supreme court of the United States, excluding from consideration In such cases the eornlncs on Interstate business. If the courts ran only be made to under stand the fallacy of the contention as to the Increased cost of handling Intrastate business. The contention has been made In the Bur lington cas. In which the evidence Is now belnjr taken, that It costs more to haul an average ton of freight per mile In Intra state business than In Interstate business, because the intrastate business Is mostly handled by local freight trains, and the operation of such trains Is more expensive than the operation of through freight trains. While. It is probably true that the claims. The only alternative, since she chooses not to employ existing permanent charity organizations, must be the creation of an organization of her own with the extensive staff neces sary to dispose of her millions in her lifetime. That even the best man aged charity organizations are imper fect is only too well known, but they reflect the mature common judgment that far more good Is accomplished with than could be accomplished with out them. If, therefore, Mrs. Sage can carry out her laudable purpose, it will be a marvel of executive ability. It may be plausibly surmised that the method Is the one preferred by her late huBband, though not expressly enjoined in his will, for while ready to relieve real need, he was extremely wary against imposition, and he was known to be distrustful of professional importunities In tho name of charity. Senator Henry M. Teller echoes a complaint that has been heard In the west these many years concerning the system of the Indian office In its ad ministration of affairs on the reserva tions. Too much system and too little administration haa always been a no ticeable feature oi the dealings be tween the government and its wards. Wherever the relations between the two have even approached a common sense arrangement, good for both sides has resulted. Commissioner Leupp is merely the legatee of a long line of mistakes, but he Is apparently earnest in his desire to bring about a better adjustment of conditions. If the ad mission of Indian territory Jointly with Oklahoma as a state will aid In bringing the system of the Indian office to a better business basis, it will bo of far more benefit to the country than the mere addition of a star to the field in Old Glory. If the delegates to the Transmissls slppl congress, which is to convene at Kansas City during the week, will only center on some one project to be pushed, the meeting may not be devoid of beneficial results. One difficulty with these conventions in the past has been that the deliberations covered a wide range of topics, and the possible good of the gathering has been dissi pated through misplaced efforts to sup port a number of enterprises, any one of which would require the undivided attention of the congress. If it 1b pos sible to unite on a program that will center effort on a single project and push It to its consummation, and then take up another, the Transmlssissippl congress can bo made a genuine fac tor for good In the development of the great empire It purports to represent. Doctors Interested In the campaign against "the great white plague" ex press a wish for some wealthy man as "crazy on this as Mr. Carnegie Is on libraries." One thing at a time. When the Carnegie library has done Its ap pointed work, the money to enable the doctors to carry on a comprehensive and effective campaign against tubercu losis, or any other form of disease, will be readily forthcoming. Dissemina tion of knowledge will lead eventually to Its application, and the world In time will be much better because An drew Carnegie has been "crazy on libraries." Ministerial declarations on the di vorce question are useful as Indicating the attitude of the clergy on the points involved, but up to date have had little apparent t fleet on the courts that are called on to correct the blunders made by Cupid. And the blind little archer will very likely continue to fire at ran dom despite the advance refusal of ministerial sanction under certain specified conditions. When the senate committee com pletes its work in the Indian Territory members will have a better idea of "confidential" reports of special per cent In Intrastate business that Is handled by local freight traJns Is some what greater than Is the jxr rent of Intra state business of the entire freight busi ness, yet the difference Is so slight as to affect but little tho result. I think It will be shown by an investigation of the way bills of any railroad that there Is propor tionately nearly .i much IntruMate freight handled by through freight trains as there is of interstate freight. Further, ns the noces.ilty for the operation of local freight trains exists for the purpose of p'cklng up. distributing and carrying Interstate freight, rs well as picking up, distributing and car rying of intrastate freight. It cannot be contended that the necessity for the opera tion of liTal freight trains can be attrib uted solely to intrastate freight. With Buch a proposition as a basis of examination, It becomes a mere mathematical problem to determine the Increased cost. If uny, per ton per mile for the doing of Intrastate, as compared with the dirfng of Interstate freight business. Mr. Dllworth, In the Nebraska case, gave It os his opinion that the Increased cost of state over Interstate business did not exceed 10 per cent, and the Hoard of Rail road Commissioners In Kentucky has re cently found, after a most exhaustive Investigation of the subject, that the In creased cost would not exceed 14 per rent. While I agree with you that there has been much Juggling upon the part of the railroads In this class of litigation, I do not think that In this day, at least, they can succeed In Inducing any court to assign the expenses for all state and Interstate freight business aa against the earnings from the state from freight alone. Such cases must be determined upon the In creased cost, if any, of handling the aver age ton mile of state freight as compared with the expense of handling the average ton mile of Interstate freight, and this must be determined by tho proportion of state and Interstate freight business that Is hauled by through and local freight trains In comparison with the comparative volume of the two classes of business. While this letter Is not written for publi cation, yet, If In your opinion, It would serve any useful purpose to the people of your state, I have no objection to your publishing It. HERHERT 8. HADLEY', Attorney General. agents. Will they have the courage to meet the ring? Japan is now demanding "reci procity" with the United States. Those islanders have evidently observed the contest in Iowa and are taking a mean way of retaliating for the San, Fran cisco incident. Kansas City will probably send all delegates to the Transmlssissippl con gress back home firm champions of a resumption of traffic on the Missouri river. A I,on Frit Want. Washington Star. The railway accidents which have been occurring point to the desirability of regu lating the shipment of human beings as well as of freight. Hint for Giddy Heiresses. Philadelphia Press. When American girls want to buy for eign titles hereafter they should be care ful that they don't have to take the for eigners with them. Menace for Divorce Reform. Chicago Tribune. Uniform divorce laws will not commend themselves to the transportation com panies. They will make a serious reduc tion In interstate passenger traffic. Lemon Market Overworked. Indianapolis News. It is said that the supply of lemons this year will be smaller than In previous years. We should Judge so by the num ber that was handed out during the re cent election. Vncle Joe's Faille Hopes. Springfield Republican. Speaker Cannon must begin early If he Is to persuade the president to abandon radicalism this winter and give congress and the country a rest. The annual mes sage, which is already written, comes down hard, it is understood, on "swollen fortunes." Mexico's CarneKle. Baltimore News. Mexico has an Andrew Carnegie in a multi-millionaire mine owner named Pedro Alvarado; but Instead of scattering libraries through the land his method of dying poor Is to give his money directly to the people. It Is averred that he has actually proposed to President Plai to as sume the public debt. The result might be a reverse application of the old proverb, and It would be a case of easy go, easy come. Having got rid of the old debt so easily, the government would be encour aged to run up a new one. Steel t'nrs for I'assrnKers. Chicago Chronicle. Steel passenger cars on the railroads will unquestionably be better than the wooden coaches in some respects, but their superiority Is not absolute. It Is true, for instance, that the steel cars will not be wrecked so completely as wooden cars when they are In collision, but, on the other hund, it will be harder to rescue people from wrecked steel cars than from wrecked wooden cars. Wood can be chopped away, while eteel will remain impregnable to the efforts of rescue parties. It is not going to be pleasant to be wrecked in a steel car, even though it stands the shock better than a wooden car. SERMOM ItOlI.EI) l)OW. The holy life needs no heralding. Y'our fads cannot be another's faith. Character seldom climbs higher than kindness. The debating of doctrine means the de laying of duty. Ho who ran do no more than drearrt is already undone. The worship of gold does not make the golden worshiper. No man rises without being knocked down a few times. It la alwaya easier to bring down the houso than to lift It up. You do not set yourself solid for heaven by getting askew with earth. The faith that Is forced down the throat does not drop Into the heart. If you are not happy on a little you would be less happy on more. No man ever knows Just how faithful he is until he gets under fire. Every man Is debtor to men to at least the extent of his advantages. The man who puts bread and butter first will never get much beyond It. Many a good deed has died in intention for lack of a little appreciation. It Is easy to spoil a lot of religious logic with a little ofT color religious living. It la wonderful how little It takea to aatlate the self-respect of some people. It is always well to believe a few things deeply, provided they are deep things. The highest delighta are often found by turning the back on pleasure and faclria cold, duty. Chicago Tribune, Most interesting J Piano Values In Our November Sales It ia becoming pretty well known that the Hospe store Is the only store In town selling Pianos at the one price, plnlnly marked in plain figures, 1. ., $190 on the Cramer Pianos stands for Just $190 no more no less. The same with t ! the plain figures $450 on the Knnbe Piano. There aro no other figures or hieroglyphics to confuse the buyer. Now we Interest you still more, the $5 per month Tlano which we sell Is reduced to $145, $1C5, $180 and $200. Are you still paying more money than we ask? Think of It, you get your $200 Piano paid for in 3S months. Don't pay over $200 for the $5 per month Piano. We can show you tho best values for this money, the same style, material and mechanism you get elsewhere for $250 to $350. Come and see and be con duced. We do not pay commissions. We sell the Pianos at a close margin, and save Vou the commissions. Don't fail to Inspect the New Knabe, Kranlch & Bach, Kimballs, Hallet & Davis, Bush-Lanes, Cable, Nelsons, Hospos, Cramers and the many other fine Pianos we carry In stock. Lowest prices, highest grades, best terms and most reliable business dealings. A. Hospe Co. 1513 Douglas Street SKCl I.An SHOTS AT THE 11 M'lT. St. Louis Republic: No one will admit familiarity enough with the situation to deny a visiting minister's point-blank as sertion that there is not sufficient heat In hell to drive the machinery of forolgn mis sions. Cincinnati Enquirer: A minister has been elected governor of Colorado. He may save the state, but the state may have hard work to rescue him from his determination. Ministerial and gubernatorial functions do not blend charmingly In Colorado. Pittsburg Dispatch: Bishop Wllllama as serts that "in the last analysis politics and religion are one." Undoubtedly correct, if It la the right kind of politics and the right kind of religion. But there are so many kinds of both that the rplgram is hardly aafe to rely on as a working rule. New York Tribune: In deciding to grant the Catholic churoh another year of grace in which to submit itself in civil affairs to the civil law of the land, the French gov ernment shows admirable moderation and patience, and we must expect it will have its due reward In a peaceful and satisfac tory settlement of the controversy. Indianapolis News: The pastor of the Wrsleyan Methodist church at Bluffton. discouraged by the seeming Indifference of his congregation, and having exhausted other means of bringing the recalcitrant members within hearing of the gospel, in (he early evening began tolling the church bell, and the people hastened from every fiuarter to ascertain who was dead. Then the minister told them there was no one physically dead, but there was a big lot spiritually decayed, and It was In their be half the bell was tolled. Indeed, so well satisfied was the minister of their spiritual death that he proposed supplementing the tolling of the bell with eulogies more or lose flattering concerning those he had In mind. It Is aald there was a feeling of relief when the congregation found there was no need of physically sitting up with the dead, and that It manifested a callous indifference as to spiritual conditions. Tolling the bell for the spiritually dead Is an Innovation. PERSONAL A.U OTHERWISE!. Milwaukee Is to have 80-eent gns with out piping the free supply In the harbor. A combine in foreign built pipes Is prom ised. Missouri meerschaum will respond to an Increased draft. The duke of Marlborough and Count Cas tellane had fairly good runs with the Van derbllt and Gould money. Mrs. Hetty Green broke Into the trust busting class rather unexpectedly. Possi bly she did not get a slice of that Pullmtui melon. Maxim Gorky la going to fill three vol umes with his impressions of America. Americans sized him up in less than three columns. The sessions of the Uniform Divorce league In Chicago proved a great stimulus to local business. One hundred and fifteen applications for divorce were filed in one day. The sad fate of tho ardent young man who was pinned to death by hla sweet heart suggests the wisdom of disarmament before hugging. Put out a feeler and go slow. Unique among the laughable revenges of soulless monopoly on the Atlantic coast is the seven-masted schooner "Thomas W. Lawson" bearing to foreign shores in cargo of Standard oil. It Is Hank Rogers' hour to smile. Monday of last week was slaughter day on American railroads. Six wrecks piled up a death list of seventy persona and fifty nine Injured. It was an unusually off day for railroad motive power. The higher courts of New York have con firmed a verdict for 17 cents rendered against a roacher on the Rockefeller pre serves. In these parlous times for John D. & Co., even 17 cents helps some. The report that the widow of Russell Sage will gave away his millions Is calculated to provoke "a doleful sound'' from the family mausoleum. One thing Is certain the Sage correspondence list will enjoy a boom. An engine crew at Detroit Jumped the machine when a collision was threatened RESULT OF Mansing Underwear Contesl MAJOR II. S. WILCOX, Manager Browning, King & Co., Omaha, Nebr. Dear Sir: Alter carefully reading the list of essays in the Munding Underwear Contest, we find the following entitled to prizes. First PriitMiat Klva Parks, 3305 Jackson St., Dubuqvt, Iovta. S on l'riz'Mis JtannetU Gilbert, !3 Willow .Ac., Council BUtff$, loir a. lliird Prize lit t rice Magner, 4927 Davenport St., City. I. A. MEDLAR. ) OUt. 11. U1LLESP1E. Committee. J. 1). WE A VER. S We Carry a FULL L1XE ol this POPULAR UNDERWEAR Browmiiiff, ECing & Co R. S. WILCOX, Manager and each broke a leg. Wherefore an un feeling soction boss requested the superin tendent of the road to "line the right of way with feather beds, so that the heroes of the rail might have a soft thing to Jump on." A Chicago judge evolves a few thinks of Interest to the brethren of the bench. He declares with befitting decorum that "there are limitations to the power of the court. Emphatically ao on the question of restricting an able-bodied thirst to one drink a day. Injunction denied." DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "Another American girl is to marry a title. She must bo rich." "Yes, poor girl!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I think this whole Thanksgiving busi ness is a good deal of a sham." "What's the matter, old man? Have they cut down your salary or has your wife a dressmaker in the house?" Chi cago Record-Herald. "Now our cook has gone away, I don't Know wnax we snail ao. "I thought you told me your wife was such a good cook?" I "Not a bit of it. I told you my wife O was an expert In broils, roasts and stews." j Baltimore American. "How In the world. Mrs. Wisely, do you manage to have all your three daughters in so early when they spend the evenings f out?" I "Tho last one home has to get break- I fast next morning." Pearson's Weekly. Miss Tassay Many young girls nowa- i days are positively awful. The Idea of one being engaged to two young men f the same time. It's simply shameful! Miss Pert (maliciously) And It's aggra vating, ioo, isn i it; fniiaaeipnia Press. Noozey You seemed to be having quite a time at your house last night. Popley (wearily) Yea, a deuce of a time. Nooiey A deuce of a timet Popley Y'es, twins. P hlladelphla Ledger. "Mrs. Blank Is a perfect crank on the care of her clothea." "I should say so. I met her yesterday and she was fearfully roiled up because she'd been caught out in a storm In her new raincoat." Detroit Free Press. "Minnie," said the young man, whose heart was thumping violently, "do you know that everybody er says that we we are engaged?" "I suppose, Harold," she answered, "everybody thinks that that we ought to be, by this time." After that it wasn't long until every body knew it. Chicago Tribune. HAZEL, IiLOSSOMS. John Greenleaf Whlttler. The summer warmth has left the sky, The summer songs have died away; And, withered, in the footpaths lie The fallen leaves, but yesterday With ruby aud with, topaa gay. The grass is browning on the hills; No p belated flowers recall The. abti.il frlugea of the rills, And drearily the dead virus fall. FrOBt-blackuned, from the roadside wall Yet through tho gray and somber wood. Against the dusk of fir and pine, Last of their floral sisterhood. The hazel's yellow blossoms shine. The tawny fold of Afrlo's mlnel Small beauty hath my unsung flower For spring to own or summer hail; But, In the aeason'a saddest hour, To Bkles that weep and winds that wall its glud surprisais never fail. O days grown cold I O life grown old! rvo rose oi June may doom again; But, like the hazel'a twisted gold. Through early frost and latter rain Shall hints of summertime remain. And as within the hazel's bough A gift of myatlo virtue dwells That points to golden ores below. And in dry desert places tells Where flow unseen the cool, sweat wells. So, In the wise Divine's hand. Be mine the hazel's grateful part To feel, beneath a thirsty land. The living waters thrill and start, The beating of the rivulet's heart! Sufnreth me the gift to !lght With latest bloom the dark, cold days; To call some hidden spring to eight That, in these dry and dusty waya, Shall sing Its pleasant song of praise. O Ixvei! the hazel-wand may fall. Hut thou canst lend the surer spell That, passlrg over Baca's vale, Repeats the old-time miracle. And makes the desert-land a welL I c r ( m