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6t The Bee Publishing company, being duly
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nd complete coplee of The Dally, Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
nwnta or JJecemner, vm. waa as i
1 gi,r70
.. 80,980
17 83,870
II 81,780
j 81,760
10 33,670
1 81,630
it,,, 31,900
80,650
31,710
31,600
It 33,130
17 81,770
21 81.610
it 81.690
10 80,300
II 81,810
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tl.700
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T... 1,880
1 89.080
I 0,30
It 81,760
U 83,180
It 83,080
II,. 81,680
U.. 81,890
II Bfl.lTO
Lea unsold and returned copies
Net total , 973,149
Dally average 81,391
CHARLES C. ROSEWATER,
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With the senatorship settled and off
their hands, Nebraska lawmakers have
no further excuse for falling to buckle
down to business.
Remarks by Nebraska editors make
It certain that Senator Drown will be
compelled to surprise some people no
matter what be does.
The suggestion that "the entire race
Question" be investigated by the senate
evidences the desire ot that body to
keep "unfinished business" on hand.
Chancellor Day of Syracuse is not
going to be forgotten when endowment
funds are being passed around, but
some day he may overshoot the mark.
Aa long as "contract cotton" Is not
fit for cloth,, the brokers may continue
to weave schemes with it without tak
ing any valuable staple from the mar
ket. In sentencing two men to hang for
killing a Japanese banker. California
proves that it recognizes a difference
between the islanders and natives of
China.
Congressmen who voted to Increase
their own salaries will now have to
demonstrate that they are worth the
money. . Actions speak louder than
words.
Railroad engineers may come to
consider absence of signal where one
is expected a more imperative demand
to stop than a red light in the middle
of the track.
It begins to look as it the late can
didacy ot William Randolph Hearst
tor governor of New York threatened
to land him In the office of mayor of
New York City.
The attitude of the California legis
lature on the Japanese school question
indicates that the shock of the "big
stick" covered a wider area than that
of the earthquake.
. It the government establishes the
contention that bank officials cannot
"unload" questionable securities on
their banks it may be a tip to states
whose resolutions on the subject are
haty.
Wall street speculators are said to
be agitated over the report that rail
road earnings are to go Into improve
ments rather than Into dividends, but
the patrons of the roads can survive
the shock.
It Mayor McClellan finds himself
unable to get a New York City judge
to declare the new attorney general in
contempt of court, relations between
the bench and the city hall will be
shown to be beyond question on a new
basis.
It remains to be seen whether the
same bunch ot rebate shippers who
went to the front tor the railroads
against the rate regulation bill pre
vlous to its enactment by congress, will
' again go to the front for the railroads
against regulation legislation proposed
at Lincoln.
Nebraska railroad tax cases are to be
argued before the supreme court ot
the United States this week. The rail
roads have lost out each time the cases
have been tried In the lower courts
and should they lose again they will
probably have learned a lesson that
will Ust them a little while.
It 80,400
Total. 989,380
. . 9,841
constitution revision.
The adoption of the constitutional
amendment creating a state railway
commission submitted to the voters at
the last election seems to open the way
for the long delayed and urgently
needed revision of the Nebraska con
stitution. Our experience with this
amendment proves conclusively that it
is possible to secure the required ma
jority at the polls provided the amend
ment proposed is arceptable to all the
great political parties and evokes no
serious opposition from any large body
of voters.
With this situation clearly before
us, the plan for a constitutional re
vision commission embodied In the bill
Introduced by Senator Aldrlch should
receive immediate and favorable con
sideration at the hands of the legisla
ture. This plan contemplates the ap
pointment by the governor of five com
missioners to meet at once and go over
the constitution with a view to finding
its defects and bringing it thoroughly
up to date. It provides that not more
than three members of the commission
shall be affiliated with any one politi
cal party, thus giving the minority am
ple representation, and provides
further that no amendment be re
ported to the legislature for submis
sion except by unanimous agreement
of all the commissioners.
The commission plan would give us
the services of our ablest lawyers In
drafting the desired amendments. It
men of the highest rank were put upon
this commission, such for example as
ex-Senator Allen, former Judge Sulli
van, former Attorney Oeneral Smyth or
W. H. Thbmpson to represent the dem
ocrats and populists, and H. II. Bal
drlge, John L. Webster, B. J. Halner,
Allen W. Field or John C. Cowln to
represent the republicans, the work
would not only he speedily and effi
ciently performed, but it ought to com
mand acquiescence at once of members
of the legislature irrespective of par
tisanship and later secure without op
position the endorsement of the differ
ent political parties, without which
ratification would be impossible.
Where the constitution is really de
fective or has been notoriously out
grown in the thirty years that it has
remained practically unaltered, there
should be no difficulty in reaching
unanimity among men of this caliber
as to what changes should now be
made. At the same time, all proposi
tions which would Involve us in rancor
and contention would be barred out
from the start.
To bring about the desired result
the proposed constitutional revision
commission bill must be hurried
through the legislature in order to
hasten the appointment of the commis
sion. Nothing but utmost expedition of
the bill would give the commissioners
time to examine the constitution crit
ically and formulate the desired
amendments before the forty-day limit
for the introduction of bills expires so
that the present legislature may pass
upon the commission's report and set
In motion the machinery for submis
sion and adoption.
If the legislature now in session will
do this it will make at least one record
that will become historic, and it will
receive a good share of the credit for
securing to Nebraska a revised consti
tution for lack of which It is griev
ously suffering.
IS LIFE WORTH LIVIXOl
"1 early became convinced," wrote
the late J. B. Kitchen, in his self-prepared
funeral address, "that it was a
serious matter, if not a real misfor
tune, to be born Into the world." In
effect, thiB Is but a revival of the ever-
old, always new question: "Is life
worth living?" a problem that has
been kept alive throughout the ages.
challenging the attention and discus
sion from the Hottentot in South At
rlca to the robed priest of our most
advanced civilization. The halting
ogle of one and the acquired wisdom
of the other have been brought to bear
upon the problem and both have left
the solution, where It must remain,
with each Individual.
The world will not hesitate, how
ever, to return an emphatically affirm
ative answer to the question. It the
problem ended with the cradle, the joy
of motherhood and the pride of pa
ternity, with the betterment of man
kind that follows their manifestation,
would be justification sufficient for
bringing new lives into the world, re
gardless of the future of such lives.
But life is worth living tor the child.
The sunshine, the flowers, the birds
and the world's love are the natural
heritage of children and every day la
brightened and better by the laugh of
a happy child, the laugh that makes
dimples in enough cheeks to catch and
to hold and to glorify all the tears ot
grief.
It is difficult to understand how the
man of mature years can hesitate as to
the answer he should return to this per
petual question. As co-heir in the estate
of achievements ot all the ages, he
has his part to play, his fight to make
in adding to the sum of human prog
ress and happiness, not only for his
own enjoyment, but for the pleasure
and advancement ot those who will
succeed him. Pessimists may continue
to wail against fate- and muck-rakers
to find fault with existing conditions,
but the average man will still go for
ward, I making every effort to better
his equipment for his battle of life,
finding strength with each obstacle
overcome, reveling in the very joy of
life, with his face to the sunlight,
keeping step with the progress of the
nations.
When his life account Is balanced,
the average man Invariably will have
been found to have received more
from the world's stock of human hap
piness than he has paid in griefs and
dtuannointinents. Assuredly, the dues-
tion must be answered In the affirma
tive. Life is worth living.
SALARY GRAB TRICKERT.
By the tricky Injection of the
amendment for a BO per cent salary
increase for congressmen Into the leg
islative appropriation bill the house
confirms the bad Impression of its
previous action In this matter. That
body Is on record at this session as
voting down this identical proposition.
Its action cannot be sincere In both
cases. ,
The reports rife at the time the
original bill was up in the house
raised suspicion of a discreditable pur
pose to make show of opposition to
the increase, throwing over onto the
senate, whose responsibility to the peo
ple is not so direct, the burden of giv
ing it an advantageous place in the
appropriation. It is a trick not un
usual in parliamentary sharp practice.
To pretend to reject the grab when
the roll is called and then to sanction
it anonymously and underhand on a
yea and nay vote is self-evident trifling.
In a word, the public issue under
the circumstances is not on the merits
of salary increase, which (a always a
delicate matter when the beneficiaries
for the most part are themselves the
donors. In this case the matter had
not even been thoroughly discussed in
public, but rather held back till the
term of the present congress was
within a few weeks of expiration. The
paramount question is the evasive and
disingenuous treatment of the public.
If it were a good end the method used
is so bad as to invite condemnation.
There is only one proper disposal of
the whole business, namely, for con
gress to take the constituents first into
their confidence. If conditions really
call for a salary increase the people
would readily give their sanction and
the matter might be dealt with
squarely and above board.
THE WORLD'S RELIEF RESPONSE.
Within a year the world has an
swered numerous epeclal calls upon
Its sympathies and generous Impulses,
and the response has been full of en
couragement for the optimist. The
Kingston catastrophe is a new and
notable case. The spontaneous efforts
for relief show that the wellsprlngs of
generosity have not leen exhausted or
diminished by the recent Immense
drafts upon it in like emergencies at
San Francisco and Valparaiso. They
have on the contrary rather been stim
ulated and enlarged by those very ex
periences which Impress the dire need
and utter helplessness of great commu
nities thus stricken.
Selfish Interest does not explain In
cidents like the universal uprising to
aid the Kingston victims, which is as
quick in remote as in nearby localities,
among strangers and foreigners, as
among the sufferers' own people.. The
result is not perhaps altogether due to
sheer growth of humane spirit. Fa
cilities for communication have
brought the whole world incomparably
closer together than they were only a
generation or two ago, so that ap
palling calamity becomes now real at
distances where It could not then have
been heard of or from which relief
could not be made effective. . But cer
tainly humane feeling and world
brotherhood have been vastly devel
oped as the horizon has broadened.
Modern means of distributing loss
by Insurance and Innumerable other
forms ot regular associated effort have
accomplished much to improve the
average lot, and In no small measure
they, too, reflect a genuine and ra
tional philanthrophy. But they are
utterly inadequate to the overwhelm
ing needs of a Kingston or a San Fran
cisco catastrophe. The consciousness
that the utmost that all can bestow Is
Imperatively called for is what sets
every official or private energy In mo
tion on the Instant. In the present
emergency it is gratifying that our own
government and people are foremost
to help a grievously hurt community
under another flag. We have no mo
nopoly of generous instinct, but the
precedent is honorable and creditable.
STOOSER AND TILLMAN.
No utterance delivered In the senate
during this session has been better re
ceived by the enlightened sentiment
ot the country than Spooner'a condem
nation of Tillman. The rebuke is the
more effective because judicial rather
than vituperative. It Is opportune be
cause the vogue of the South Carolina
senator, though It has offended intel
ligent men with a species of coarse
sensationalism and anarchism, has
caused Imitation and produced a new
type of politician in the south.
To controvert, even with parlia
mentary courtesy, the dangerous senti
ments which Tillman from the first,
and more frequently of late, has ex
pressed on the floor of the senate and
in promiscuous public addresses, was
to Invite the vengeance of his un
licensed tongue and to provoke wilder
excesses, and many ot our public men
have undoubtedly been deterred by
this reason from vigorously combatting
him to his fce. But especially with
reference tJ lynching and the relations
of the black and white races, his in
cendiary and lawless spirit has already
done incalculable harm.
The problem ot race adjustment may
be peculiarly one tor the south, in
parts of which the blacks are so
densely massed. But even there the
only true solvents must be Justice and
right and law, all of which Tillman in
his public character as a United States
senator ostentatiously and contemptu
ously tramples on. It such is not his
real purpose his publio record is that
ot a trlfler, a poser and a panderer to
vicious Instincts and passions, more
offensive than If he were merely a
furious fanatic.
It the standards ot public morality
and propriety are to be vindicated at
all, the spirit which Tillman defiantly
represents la occasion for their stern
assertion. There must be response in
the south among the educated, worthy
and well meaning people and also
among those who are taking part in Its
notable industrial development. In
justice and insecurity for the color
marked part of the population are ob
viously and utterly Incompatible with
the peace and well-being of the whole,
and regard for self-interest, as well as
for human rights, cannot too soon
move the south and the whole country
to repudiate Tlllmanism in all its re
pulsive phases.
THE JAPANESE SCHOOL CASES.
The suits now formally brought by
the United States place in due course
of settlement the questions arising un
der California law from the segregation
of Japanese pupils in the San Fran
cisco public schools. A question of fact
and a more important constitutional
question are involved. The national
government maintains that exclusion
of the Japanese from the grade schools
attended by whites is in contravention
of treaty guaranteeing to them all
rights and privileges under the famil
iar most-favored-nation clause, which
is a point made by the Japanese them
selves. But the chief interest is In the ex
tent of the treaty power under the con
stitution which has never yet been
definitely bounded. If the supreme
court should hold segregation to
be In violation of the treaty, still
the validity of the treaty itself and
the power of the national government
to enforce it in such matters against
state and municipal laws remain for
determination. This is Indeed one
of the oldest controverted points ot
constitutional construction, and as the
number of foreign residents multiply
Its Importance must increase. If treaty
force Is limited by the "reserved
rights" of the several states, the na
tional government must obviously be
powerless to enforce against local op
position and violation the obligations
usually carried by treaties among the
great civilized nations. Sooner or later
some remedy would have to be devised,
because Just grievances are certain to
be Inflicted on subjects of foreign na
tions resident here.
Back of constitutional construction,
however, is the offense to Japanese
pride involved in what appears to them
prejudiced discrimination, whether the
San Francisco school regulation be
held technically within the treaty or
not. What really stirs Indignation is
probably rather numerous instances of
hoodlum persecution and outrage, not
a few of which are collected In Secre
tary Metcalf'a report, the school law
being only the occasion selected for
diplomatic action. The substantial
basis for tolerable relations must be
public sentiment reflected through
local public authority, insuring Justice
and equal protection at least in the
common rights of humanity. If this
should fail, as it has already too often
failed, remedies must be found
through national authority under pen
alty of Infinite trouble and disaster.
IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION.
The ultra immigration restrlctionlsts
will never rest satisfied until they shall
have surrounded the United States
with an insurmountable wall through
which no foreign-horn immigrant will
be allowed to pass. Pending that time
they are bending every effort to lay
the foundation for their wall of ex
elusion and build It constantly higher
and higher.
Every American citizen, barring the
aboriginal Indians, must trace his an
cestry back to some foreign-born immt
grant, and were it not for the liberal
policy pursued during the first cen
tury of our existence toward recruits
from abroad this country would never
have grown to its present greatness
and prosperity. No one contends that
we should not exclude newcomers who
are undesirable because ot criminality.
pauperism or dependence, but our pres
ent laws cover ail these points with
rigid stringency. The proposal now
made to go further than ever before
and vest examining boards with author
ity to reject immigrants on so-called
evidence of "low vitality" would set
up an unheard-of test of fitness and
give practically autocratic power to im
migration officials.
The people of the United States, and
especially of the great west, are eager
to welcome any well-intentioned, able
bodied Immigrant willing to work to
better his condition. They have great
undeveloped resources, which require
labor as well as capital to exploit, and
they are ready to share opportunities
with those who have been less favored
In European countries and who at best
have serious obstacles to overcome
when they set out afresh In a new
country and among neighbors who
speak a strange language. Our law
makers at Washington should under
stand this and keep it in mind when
besieged to raise the wall of exclusion
still higher.
It turns out that not only Is the
State Fair board asking for a perpetual
eighth of a mill levy appropriation
but that the normal school boosters
are also lying In wait with a mill levy
proposition to provide unlimited funds
indefinitely for their institutions. The
success of the state fair and of the
normal schools in getting special taxes
imposed for their exclusive benefit
would be immediately followed by
propositions for similar levies for the
penitentiary, the Insane asylum, the
soldiers' homes, reform schools and
every other state Institution receiving
bounty from the legislature. The camel
who poked bis nose under the Arab's
tent and finally worked his head in,
then bis neck and bis bump, evicting
his master, would not be in it com
pared with the state institution lobby
ists after special appropriations, if
they were allowed to have their own
way unhindered.
A divergence of opinion is promised
as to proposed measures to define the
duties of the State Railway commission
created under the newly adopted
amendment to the constitution ot Ne
braska. Congress has recently passed
an act giving authority to the Inter
state Commerce commission over- in
terstate traffic, and the legislature will
not go far amiss if It keeps close to
that law in delegating powers to the
State Railway commission with refer
ence to traffic within state boundaries.
North Carolina has a word to say
when theichlld labor bill is mentioned
as a democratic party measure and
few other southern states are as
practical. If not as loud, in their in
difference to the subject.
When the casualties of the year
1907 are tabulated first place as as
sistant to the grim reaper will lie be
tween railroads and earthquakes, with
the former still several points ahead
north of the tropics.
A reliable authority declares that
'most railway ac ldents are prevent
able." If that is so, every preventable
accident resulting in loss of life means
that someone is guilty of culpable neg
ligence.
Gfltlnn a Fr it Pointers.
Phllndplphla Fre.
By the time It gnts through with its In
vestigations the Interstate Commerce com
mission will know how to run a few rail
roads Itself.
Close Watch Ahead.
Washington Post.
From the falling off of the number of
railroad accidents lately, it appears that'
the engineers are taking the trouble to look
at their signals.
Ought to Feel at Home.
Baltimore American.
As the new senator from Kansas .is a
descendant of an Indian chief. It Is to be
presumed that he will feel thoroughly at
home In the powwows In the big wigwam
on the Potomac
Theory and Practice.
Chicago News.
Jim Hill Is certain that the railroads are
swamped with business, but these are the
same railroads that were giving rebates In
order to get more business until the gov
ernment made them quit.
Needless I'neaalnes.
Cleveland trader.
The fear entertained In some quarters
that the country will be Injured by too
much prosperity need not cause any gen
eral uneasiness. Mr. Bryan Is always avail
able as a sure remedy for any trouble of
that nature.'
llotrhlna the Job.
Chicago News.
For years the south has been begging to
be allowed to settle the race question In
Its own way. No one has been interfering
with It of late, but somehow It does not
appear to be making a glowing success of
Its settlement plana.
Getting Together.
Boston Transcript.
President Roosevelt appropriates the
money received from the Nobel prise for
use In promoting industrial peace. Presi
dent Qompers turns away from the field of
Industrial struggle to that of peace and
war among the nations. Each president
thus seems bound to get Into the territory
of the other.
Company for All Seasons.
Minneapolis Journal.
May be it Is Just as well to have several
different kinds of ambassadors. After the
president has enjoyed a pteeplechuse with
Speckle and knocked Juaserand all over
the court he may enjoy a wash-up and a
gallop through the sagas of Ireland with
Jeames Bryce.
Somewhat Muddled.
Chicago Chronicle.
Does the statement thut has appeared in
dispatches to a number of newspapers that
the lowest bid on Panama canal work was
6 per cent of the cost mean that it was
63.4 per cent of the estimated cost? If not.
whatrdoes it mean? Of course, It can not be !
correct statement and It conveys not the
faintest Idea of truth.
Prefers a Friendly Eye.
New York Tribune.
Senator Bailey Is willing to be investi
gated, but wants to prescribe tho lines on
which the Investigation shall be conducted.
He doesn't want "anarchists" and "social
ists" running amurk with his record and
hopelessly confusing his political, politico-
legal, plain legal, lefral-tinanelal and other
manifold activities as a promoter and
statesman.
PEKSUXAL AM) OTHKHWISE,
It is safe to prophesy that the sun la
shining somewhere.
All accounts agree that a policeman's Job
in irufBia Is not a Joyous one.
With Bailey and Brownsville shaking
regularly, Texas elbows up to Jamaica on
the front page.
Reports from European health resorts
show weather conditions uncommonly en
ticing for Americans threatened with the
Interstate commerce probe.
San Francli'O views with varying emo
tions the reports of tremors in various
parts of the world and exclaims, "I'm not
so lonesome there are others."
The fashion for beards promoted by the
governor of New York is becoming dan
gerously popular in the empire state. Bar
bers are already honing their razors for a
few cutting remarks In the next cain
puign. The heroic rescuers of the steamer Ponce
did not forget the business end of the
game while hauling the disabled eti-amer
to port. A little bill ror f.iv.wj salvage
has been handed In by the rescuers, who
prefer coins to hero medals.
The Pennsylvania state cspltol contrac
tors will look like bargain rushers beside
the New Yorkers out for the new court
house job. The site is estimated to cost
JS.OuO.OiO and the building any old sum In
the millions. Prosperity and Job lots are
comrades.
A cross-examination of witnessses In a
New Yolk court conducted by a inau tem
porarily released from an Insane asylum
ui pronounced by experts to equal the
!tand:ird of the sp.ne article. All the suine
the court sent tho cr.ies-examlntr bui k to
the padded cell.
In striving to determine what constitutes
a meal In Sunday saloon hot-ls a New
York court went far enough to say that
a sawdust with galvanized covers,
hitched to a table, "did not constitute ele
ments needed to satisfy an honest appe
tite." But the anw4witli fctc.b4 kt beer
every time.
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bEKMO.tS BOILED DOWN.
Love of the law finds liberty In the law.
The way to keep friends is to keep faith.
The sleeping church always awakes to
shame.
Scratch a ohronlo critic and you find a
hypocrite.
The heaviest chains are made from liber
ties abused.
He cannot move hearts whose heart can
not be moved.
A moonshlny religion does not make a
sunshiny world.
A worthy life Is Impossible without a
worthy motive.
The worst punishment of sin is that one
learns to love It.
He who must be goaded to do right Is
going to do wrong.
Tou never know what Is In a man until
he gets In a minority.
The bread of life Is never on the Hps of
the bread and butter preacher.
The only good that really Is good for
any is that which works good for all.
The really moving sermon is the one
that makes you get up and do things.
Let money talk and you are sure to
hear the accent of a fool before long.
A man does not have to look sheepish
to prove that he Is not one of the goats.
The mtniBter oppressed by a sense of his
modernity will paralyze his ministry. Clii
cago Tribune.
SKCIXAH SHOTS AT THE PCI.PIT.
Minneapolis Journal: The name of the
deity has been taken Off the Frenoh coins.
We do not recall the number of the chap
ter and verse, but the man who did It has
been tersely and accurately described.
Chicago Record-Herald: More than. 1,000
ministers have applied for the position of
chaplain to the Pennsylvania legislature.
Evidently the Pennsylvania preachers have
a Idea that their legislature la going to
need a good deal of praying for.
Boston Transcript: The church of the fu
ture is not only to be more cathollo In its
spirit, cimple and splrituul In its creed and
ethical and practical In Its aim, but also
more responsive to environment In its pol
ity; and that polity is to have Its seat ot
authority In the needs of the hour, rather
tlian in any tradlllon of the pat- Effi
ciency of administration and operation in
accomplishing rational ends Is to be the
test. Just aa in the larger world of affairs.
Philadelphia Record: If Cardinal Gibbons'
quotations from the speeches of M. Briand
about "hunting Jesus Christ out of the gov
ernment of France" needeC Jiy corrobor
ation they would find it In Finance Min
ister Gaillaux'a directions to the mint to
omit from the coins the words "God Pro
tect France" and substitute "Liberty,
Equality, Fraternity." This is frankly go
ing back to the revolution, with its en
throned Goddess of Reason. It had been
supposed that French secularism waa on a
higher level than In 1791
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DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"There's no use talking "
"That's Just what my wife tells me after
she has stated her sid of the argument."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Miss Roxley," began Mr. Nervey, "1
adore you. Will you be my wife?'"
"Sir!" retorted Miss Roxley, haughtily,
"tho idea of your proposing to a Klrl in
my station! You should know better."
"I do know better, but no richer."
Philadelphia Press.
"That young woman is not Intelligent,
amiable or even decently courteous."
"Oh. but her father Is worth $1,000,0)."
"Then I think she should be required to
display a notice to that effect." Louisville
Courier-Journal. I
"My sister sent you her love and a kiss,"
said the designing young man.
"How could she send me a kiss?" Inno
cently asked the unsophisticated young
girl.
And the designing young man answered
with Illustrations taken from life. "Br
male special delivery." Baltimore Amer
ican, "I guess you heard my daughter prac
ticing today," said Mrs. Nexdore. "The
musio teacher was here this morning; you
know she's taking lessons by the quarter"
"Indeed!" Interrupted Mrs. Pepprey. "I
thought It was by the pound." Cleveland
Leader.
Miss Cutting Awfully rude and Inquis
itive, Isn't he?
Miss Passay Excessively. He was try
ing to find out my age the other day. 1
Just told him I was 48. That settle" him.
Miss Cutting Yes; I guess its in best to
be perfectly candid with that sort of fel
low. Catholic Standard and Times.
REVERIES.
Boston Transcript.
'Tls a merry old world when the heart is
young,
When happiness beckons and hope lures nn.
When the moonlight entices and songs are
sung;
Eyes shining with laughter, and every
tongue
Full of promise and faith In the things
to be
'Tls a merry old, Jolly old worldl
'Tls a busy old world when the season's
tide
Is rushing us on In the high noon glow.
And strength and power and manhood's
pride
Stem the forces of nature, and side by side
Goes the struggle of living, of riches, and
need
'Tls a hard old, busy old worldl
'Tls a funny old world that the plans we
laid
Should fall and miscarry 'tls strange to
sue
Time's vista Illumine the parts we played t
How the roles have altered, the changes
made.
Quite other from what we had hoped It
to be
'Tls a queer old, funny old worldl
When hope has vanished 'and pleasure Is
gone!
'Tls a drenry old world when the skies
turn gray.
When the heart beats are ticking the end
of the day
The summons that beckons from earth life
away.
And world values perish. Its glories decay
'Tls a weary old, dreary old worldl
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