THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 30, 1907.
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Last call for the June bride.
The wise youth wilt use a portion of
hit fireworks fund for the purchase of
arnica and bandages.
The Georgia legislature will be
opened with a barbecue. It probably
will also end with a roast.
Senator Foraker has not yet been
able to start a fire in Ohio. He must
be playing with wet matches.
"I doubt not that Batau rides in an
automobile," nays a Detroit preacher,
gure Satan is the original scorcher.
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The Toklo papers are not criticising
General Funston for his remarks about
"the unwhipped mob" of San Fran
cisco. Railroad managers should realize
that the people do not want to destroy
the railroads, nor to be destroyed by
them.
Mr. Harrtman ought lo have enough
immunity baths in cold storage to use
one in good stead in his New London
incident.
The telephone number of the near
est hospital should be a part of the
equipment for an elaborate display of
fireworks on July 4. '
The report that John W. Gates won
$60,000 on a horse race the other day
must be a mistake. John never bets
less than $1,000,000.
It required but ten minutes to in
augurate a president pro tem of Pan
ama'. U required less time than that
to create the Panama republic.
Thilander," according to the dic
tionary, means "to flirt, to coquet."
The Philander Knox presidential boom
has a place in the political game.
"Are all our great Intellects monop
olized by business?" asks the Wash
ington Herald. By no means. There
is Senator Beverldge and Colonel
Bryan.
Mr. Bryan now says that his
Initiative and referendum is "as eld
aa the republic." How much credit,
then, ran he claim for hatching this
stale egg?
New York Is now discussing whether
women's elbows are beautiful or ugly.
The votes of the men who pay for the
elbow-length gloves do not go in the
beauty box.
Harper's Weekly has discovered
that ex-Senator Carmack of Tennessee
is a democratic presidential possibll
ity. No one else has hlfherto even
suspected it.
President Wilson wants to break up
the drinking clubs at Princeton, "to
make , the place more , democratic."
Howevtr, that's not popular ' demo
cratlc doctrine.
Tha Pennsylvania democrats In their
state convention refused to endorse
Mr. Bryan. However, Mr. Bryan Is
not expecting the electoral vols of
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Bryan declares that a democrat
is a rosn who "believes In tha rule of
tha people." Southern democrats in
sist upon Inserting "white" before the
word "paopla." Otherwise, they agrea
pretty with Mr. Bryan.,
If THE BAtLROADS WAItT TO TIGHT.
The latest pronunclamenfo of John
N. Baldwin as general solicitor for the
t'nlon Pacific hardly supports the rep
i mentation that the railroads are like
a thoroughly thrashed boy pleading
for mercy. Mr. Baldwin says:
The only thing for the railroads to do is
to fight anil the fliiht will be begun with
all possible dispatch.
Of course. If the railroads want to
fight nothing stands In their way, but
should they lose out, they should be
prepared for the consequences without
playing the baby act. The announce
ment that the railroads are itching for
a right and that the right will be begun
"with all possible dispatch" simply
means that they are themselves still
fanning the flames In which they have
already burned their fingers.
When the railroads refused to pay
their taxes in Nebraska for three suc
cessive years and compelled district
schools to close for the lack of funds
they were warned what they might ex
pect, but they Issued defiance to the
public. The courts declared that they
muBt ray their taxes like other people
and now, because they find they can no
longer evade their fair share of the tax
burden, they complain through Mr.
Baldwin that their taxes have been in
creased 20 to 25 per cent.
The railroads have been constantly
raising their freight rates, if not
outright, by Juggling classification
schedules, withdrawing rebates and
charging extra for services formerly
Included. Yet, when the legislature
fixes a maximum limit on a few staple
commodities at 85 per cent of existing
tariff, they complain through Mr. Bald
win that freight rates have been cut
an average of 15 per cent, although It
is plain that there is no such reduction
on the; average.
When the legislature stops the
wholesale distribution of free passes
and enacts a 2-cont fare law, the rail
roads exact cash fares from the previ
ous deadheads, withdraw their mileage
books, refuse excursion rates, home
seekers' rates, tourist rates and all
other rates below the maximum, and
then through Mr. Baldwin pretend that
passenger rates have been cut 33 per
cent. Does he forget that the show
ing of his own railroad before the Ne
braska legislature was that the average
revenue from passengers carried last
year was 1.88 cents per mile?
The railroad lawyers must not as
sume that the people are ignorant of
the facts or that they will swallow
such assertions without requiring veri
fication. The people have been patient
and long suffering, but if the railroads
want more fight, they will certainly
fight buck.
Does prosperity throttle thrift
Does prosperity throttle thrift? This
apparently paradoxical question Is
suggested by an article contributed to
the current Political Science Quarterly
by Prof. A. 8. Johnson of our own
State university, in which he attempts
to analyze the economic influences that
affect saving. According to the writer,
the accepted treatment of the subject
may be summarized as follows:
Different races, social classes and Indi
viduals show varying degrees of thrift.
Saving Is conditioned on the subjective side
by Intelligence, education and regard for
the welfare of one'a dependents; on the ob
jective side by the security of property and
tha certainty of life, and by the reward for
vlng In the form of Interest.
The natural and usual conclusion of
observers is that prosperity encourages
thrift, and that the progress of civili
zation makes for a steadily increasing
and accumulative storing up of wealth.
The spread of popular education teach
ing people to realize the necessity of
saving for a rainy day and the respon
sibility for providing for future needs
of family and dependents should
strengthen the tendency to thrift. The
Increased security of property and the
certainty of its preservation for future
enjoyment and the more easy and
safer opportunities of investment, ir
respective of variations In the rate of
interest, should likewise operate to in
creased saving.
To combat these considerations,
however, several factors are presented
In the article referred to as exerting
an influence to restrict and retard
thrift. It is argued, for example, that
inability to invest "under one's own
eye" or to employ savings "in business
under one's own direction," owing to
our present methods of large scale pro
duction through hugh corporations,
weakens the thrift Incentive. The ac
quisition of land, formerly supposed
to be tha most powerful stimulus to
thrift, is now almost out of the reach
of the multitude.
An attempt Is likewise made to
show that what -the averge man will
save depends largely upon the prevail
ing standard of living and that the
higher the standard of living the less
will be the ability to save. In order
to keep up an appearance and main
tain the level reached by successful as
sociates, we are told,( a constantly
larger percentage of Income must be
expended. Such a demonstration is
decidedly unconvincing, because its re
versal leads to the absurdity that the
lets a man has and the lower his
standard of living, the mora ha will
sava.
Impartial observation of conditions
existing all around us should prove to
any professor teaching In the Univer
sity of Nebraska that any theory sup
porting the Inference that prosperity
throttles thrift will not square with
the facts. Nowhere mora than in this
section are tha evidences of saving
mora striking both in Improvement of
habitations, extinction of mortgages,
accumulation of bank deposits and In
vestment securities, and nowhere has
tha general average standard of living
, leen raised more perceptibly. The
people are not only spending more
than they used to, but they are also
at the same time saving more than
they used to Ml because they have
more to spend and more to save. Con
tinue present prosperous conditions
from year to year and the proof of un
abated thrift will pile up mountain
high.
THE ILLS OF THE AGED.
Mrs. Sage's endowment of a re
search laboratory in connection with
the city hospital in New York for the
study and prevention of the organic
changes that produce old age and of
the wasting diseases that afflict those
advanced In years, is fraught with
great possibilities to the combined
causes of science and charity. One of
the crowning credits of the generation
comes from its efforts to ameliorate
the helplessness of the aged. Medical
science has done much in the last fifty
years to increase the expectation of
life, particularly by discovering new
cures for infectious diseases which
have heretofore killed so many chil
dren. This extension of the expecta
tion of life has been granted only to
the young. Informed as to the ad
vancement made in medical science In
the prevention and cure of disease af
fecting the young, Mrs. Sage has made
a specific donation, amounting to about
$15,000 a year, to promote research
for preventive medicine to offset or
ganic changes of later life and to ame
liorate Its suffering.
Parents of the day appreciate the
advance that has been made in the
treatment of the children's maladies. J
Diphtheria, scarlet fever, mumps,
measles, whooping cough and tha long
list of Juvenile ills have lost their ter
rors and are looked upon as nursery
incidents, but it is an unpleasant fact
that old age seems still to be as much
a prey to disease as formerly and to
diseases which have so far resisted
treatment. The nonproductive period
of life has not been materially ad
vanced and the number of persons who
retain their bodily and mental vigor
after 55 or 60 years of age is little
greater than it was a century ago. In
the cities, where the work of manhood
is tireless and exacting, the nonpro
ductive period usually appears with
the half-century mark. The average
city man of that age, while he may
still be active in his business, cannot
hope to compete with younger men in
new ventures, but must be well con
tent if able to hold his own. Mrs.
Sage, in presenting her gift, particu
larly mentions this condition and ex
presses the hope that the fund will
yield much new knowledge aa to the
cause and prevention of early senility.
The development of a new branch of
preventive medicine, having for its ob
ject the arrest and postponement of
those changes in bones, arteries and
vital organs that constitute the process
of growing old will stamp Mrs. Sage's
gift as one of the unique benefactions
to humanity.
CRIMIXAL8 AMONG IMMIGRANTS
Congressman Bennett of New York,
now in Italy as a member of the fed
eral commission appointed to study the
immigration problem, Is reported to
have made the startling discovery that
the return to Italy of so many Italians
from the United States is due to the
fact, as asserted by the returned
Italians, that they are safer in Italy
from secret societies of ithe Black
Hand type than in the United States.
If Congressman Bennett's assertion la
true, It is a Borry reflection upon the
weakness of the fight made against
these societies in this country and
emphasizes anew the need of better
enforcement of existing laws restrict
ing the admission of criminal classes
from foreign countries. The evils of
the Black Hand societies are, happily,
not pronounced In the west, but the
newspapers of the east and of the
south dally contain accounts of new
outrages by these organizations. The
murder of a 6-year-old child near New
Orleans by members of an Italian
Black Hand society that had kidnaped
him and held him for ransom until
pursuit alarmed them Into killing him
and hiding the body in a swamp is one
of the latest crimes which calls atten
tion to the need of exterminating root
and branch these Imported societies
whose aim Is plunder and to which
murder is but an Incident.
The National Liberal Immigration
league has taken up the agitation In
favor of action looking to deporting
criminal aliens. The league urges,
among other remedies, the raising of
the standard of citizenship by prolong
ing the probationary term and by re
quiring candidates for naturalization
to give a guarantee of good conduct
and a knowledge of our Institutions.
The problem is a difficult one because
the crafty criminal is Just the one to
scheme most successfully to evade the
proscriptions of the law. Existing laws
provide for rejection of criminals,
those afflicted with disease, paupers
and other "undesirable" classes, but
every Black Hand outrage is proof that
the law against the admission of the
criminal class Is evaded. The greatest
sufferers from these 'outrages, besides
the direct victims, are the honest, in
dustrious Italians, who are welcomed
by the thousands to employment in
all parts of the country. These are
now organizing and aiding the au
thorities in the pursuit and punish
ment of the criminals of their own
race. Tha plan of the National Lib
eral Immigration league Is worthy of
encouragement. It provides, while
withholding citizenship from the for
eigner for a term of ten years, that if
he is convicted of a crime, shall be
deported. Instead of being confined in
prison here for a term and then re
leased to continue his criminal career.
This might not prove a complete solu
tion, but It ought to be a help.
FOR A fiAS VACATION.
With the arrival of the heated term,
the vacation microbe is violating the
union rules by working overtime to
divert and discompose the mind of the
toiler during the waking hours and
furnishing rare food for dreams. The
vacation habit has become chronic
with the American people, though sub
ject, like other habits, to abuses that
rob It, in many Instances, of all its
benefits. Webster defines vacation as
"a period of intermission; rest;
leisure," but the victim of the vacation
habit gives the word an entjrely differ
ent definition and usually employs the
time alloted for the vacation in a
further waste of the vitality that needs
strengthening.
The popular idea of a vacation for
the city worker is a couple of weeks
at a summer resort, where people
plunge into gayetles and frivolities
much more tiring than the work they
have temporarily abandoned. These
people usually return to work, fagged,
Ill-natured, regretting the money spent
for gowns and clothes essential to
participating In such festivities and
fully Impressed with the fact that they
have not benefited by their vacations.
Change and reBt are the two prime
essentials to the well regulated and
proper vacation. These should be
based on the character of the daily
work of the person seeking the vaca
tion. The office man, the clerk and
the man of sedentary habits should
seek the country where fresh air, fresh
milk, fresh fruit, fresh eggs and fresh
scenes abound, and keep as close as
possible to nature every minute of his
holiday. Working girls and society
women should also seek the country,
the best of all sanitariums for the cure
of tired nerves and bodies.
Benefits from vacations will come
only to those who employ their time
as differently as possible from the man
ner in which it is used in their daily
vocations. The pleasure should not
be too strenuous, but only sufficient to
distract the tired brain from every
day cares and allow it to rest a little
on its own account. The vacation
used without Judgment Is apt to prove
more wearing than the same time put
In at routine work.
INEXCUSABLE JO IVOR JACK.
With becoming frankness, E. H.
Harrlman, the railway magnate, ad
mits that he was no doubt guilty of
violating the rules governing the course
at the boat races at New London the
other day, but, that it was unintentional
and that he does not think he should
be fined because of his Ignorance of
the regulations. Mr. Harrlman's plea
should not be accepted. In addition to
the fact that a lot of people would like
to see him Jailed and fined, "on gen
eral principles," if no other charge can
be made to stick against him, there is
the further fact that ignorance of the
law excuses no one. If Mr. Harrlman
were a stranger In the country, or a
visitor from the rural districts, some
excuse might be offered for his con
duct In rushing his launch out into the
racing course, after the racers had
passed, and thus obstructing the view
of those who were on the United States
revenue cutters guarding the course.
It will not do Mr. Harrlman any
good to plead that he has been so busy
with gigantic railroad and industrial
interests that he has not had time to
post himself on the duties of the army
and navy of the nation.- He should
know that congress appropriates many
millions of dollars every year to build
warships and revenue cutters and
equip the marine service so that the
yacht and boat raceB of the nation
may be pulled off properly and the
racing course patrolled by brave sail
ors and tbelr guests who enjoy these
things mightily. He should know that
it is a part of the schooling of the
soldier and the marine to learn to face
any and all dangers that may threaten
the nation. If Mr. Harrlman goes to
the Jamestown exposition this year, he
will find the intrepid marine corps
on the wharves, patrolling the prop
erty of the transportation companies,
keeping the crowds off the boats of
private steamship lines, until their
tickets have been bought and properly
vised, and acting as guides, ushers
and guards for the officials running
the big show. The service is one call
ing for bravery, courage and heroic
daring and the man who Interferes
with the soldier or the marine in the
discharge of this duty to his country
should be treated as a traitor. Mr.
Harrlman Is lucky to be alive. The
next time he finds representatives of
the army, navy, marine corps or reve
nue cutter service guarding a boat
race, foot ball game, base ball game,
horse race, pinochle, poker or any
other national sport, he will know
enough to keep in the background.
Twelve states enacted 2-cent fare
laws before Governor Hughes of New
York interposed his veto. With all
the discussion and Investigation con
current with this legislation the rail
roads ought to be able to prove their
case, If they have one, without further
time. That they have not the neces
sary proof Is pretty clear or they would
not have consented to a three months'
trial in Missouri before renewing the
fight there.
China is experiencing a new pros
perity, according to a consular report.
That Is only natural. The United
States sent China about $40,000,000
for famine reUef purposes, cancelled
a claim of $30,000,000 for Boxer in
demnity and Las aupDlemenUd that
now with about $16,00,000 for fireworks.
Pi if. Robert F. Hoxle of the Chi
cago university appears to be a de
fender of the rights of labor organiza
tions, In times of strikes, to use vio
lence to men and property in enforcing
their demands. Prof, Hoxle clearly
belongs to the university at S,t. Peters
burg. Colonel Bryan In his Commoner ex
presses publicly his thanks to the con
stitutional convention of Oklahoma
"for the honor done him in giving his
name to one of the new counties" of
that state. Oklahoma has stolen a
march on us, but we will have a Bryan
county in Nebraska, too, some day.
Wisconsin is apparently determined
to force the LaFolletto presidential
boom upon the nitention of the public,
notwithstanding the fact that the
boom has been endorsed by Colonel
Bryan.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota says
he does not want the democratic nom
ination for the presidency. Evidently
the governor does not want to spoil an
unbroken record of victories In the po
litical field.
Mr. Harrlman should rot be too se
verely blamed for getting In the course
at the Yale boat races. He doubtless
feels a sort of ownership of all the
water In the world.
It is Btated that the Standard Oil
trust will soon control a railroad from
ocean to ocean. It has been suspected
that the Standard has long controlled
several roads of that kind.
The New York World is still asking
"What is a democrat?" A democrat
is a man who does not hang around
telegraph offices or bulletin boards
very late on election nights.
It was really considerate of the late
Nebraska legislature to hold off the
operation of all those newly enacted
laws until after the Fourth of July
celebration should have been over.
Borne "tainted" money somehow got Into
the Young Men's Christian association fund
thia week. Exchange,
Will they keep it, or will they send
it back?
First of His Class.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
r,nM wHa maiA "thA irifts of bail men
bring no good with them," was the original
tainted money kicker.
Iaaa 'Kiu I p. Please.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Tha United States treasury calls for the
return of all the outstanding 10.000 bills.
Please do not delay about sending in ours.
A Reasonable Demand.
New York World.
Ohio's attorney general says he wants "to
keep corporations In the state and see to It
that they obey the laws of tho state." No
state asks mora than this, and it does not
seem unreasonable.
Which Roadf
Boston Transcript.
Several thousand young men In this coun
try are now confronted by tho serious ques
tion, "Shall I lead the Intellectual Ufa and
run tho risk of starvation, or take a post
graduate course In bricklaying and assure
myself of easy hours and a good Income?"
Awful Toll of Industry.
Kansas City Star.
The Pittsburg coroner reports an average
yearly death Hat of 1,000 from accidents In
the factories and mills In the city of the
steel corporation. The report sheds a timely
light upon tho Insistence of the president
for a broader employers' liability act In
cases of Industrial accidents. It also Indi
cates, with tolerable accuracy, the patriot
Ism and humanity of those who regard Mr.
Roosevelt as a "radical."
lona's Grand Old Man.
Washington Herald.
Prom all parts of the country coma ex
pressions of satisfaction because of the
statement attributed to Senator Allison
that he will be a candidate to succeed him
self In the. senate. The impression has long
prevailed that If Mr. Allison were to an
nounce his wllllngnesa to como back to
Washington again there would be no
chance for Governor Cummins, ex-Repre
sentative Laccy, or any of the othera who
have been talked of as possible successors
to him. .
Mastery of the Parlflo.
Eprlngfield Republic.
Those Imaginary persons who believe
that there must some time be a struggle
for the mastery of the Pacific, should let
soma of the Japanese sense of Ambassa
dor Aokl aoak into them. "It is too big,"
ho says, sententlnusly. Bo It Is. And
there are too many countrlea bordering
upon It. There would be as much sense
In a struggle for the mastery of the At
lantic. The mastery of an ocean la pos
sible only in the sense that It belongs to
those who use It, and oceans cannot ba
fenced In.
VACATION HOI R ASU CARES.
Season of Play Time, Rest and
Recreation.
St. Louts Times.
When vacations come, when tha wesried
one of work Is ready to lesve desk or shop
or other toll and seek tho greenwood and
the water side for refreshment, too often
It Is the case he carriea with him the frets
of dally occupation and gams sin ill re
ward in release. ,
Play time Is worth little when mixed with
Infesting carea. Their tenia 'must be folded
aa tha Arab's wVien we start a fishing. The
Indulgences of the loafing hour must be
unvexed If they would recreate.
The business man who cannot caft aside
the detail of his hararsments, the teacher
whose problems are not dismissed, the pro
moter who will not forget his projects,
lose the soul, the stimulus, the life of
vacation.
Care free as tha butterfly must be ha
who plunges his hot brow Into Nature's
rooting pools for recuperation. The tonics
of mountain atrs, balsamic woods, green
links, sweet lakes, salt waters, are ref
of half their medicines when ministered
to a mind not wholly rendered to their
nursing
Forget them the slings and arrows
when you his away upon vacation bent.
Weddd to his folly Is the fool who car
ries to hla day of sweet doing nothing
mind not, vacant to all impression but that
It is good to be alive or who woos tha
Mother Dams with other thought than that
aha Ijs beautiful.
A Dollar Saved
Is a. Dollar Made
Are you looking for an investment?
Something that is as safe or snfer
than a government bond?. Something that will net you
at least '20 on your investment, BUY A DIAMOND.
Diamonds have been constantly Increasing in value. Each day
finds them of greater value than the day before.
Take advantgage of my LlliKKAL CKl'.DIT 8 VST KM and buy a
Diamond on KA8V I'AVMKNTS. A diamond gives prestige and the
air of prosperity. 11K PKOSI'KKOl'S.
A Dollar or Two a Week Will Do
1 Y
SERMON ROII.Kn down.
Preaching down to folks does not lift
them up.
Sympathy Is a key that fits the lock of
any heart.
Soul health will not come by taking re
ligion as a dose.
He who earns the crown needs not to
put on any airs.
The surest way to impoverish your heart
Is to hoard up your love.
It's hard stirring the conscience that Is
under the narcotio of money.
There always Is something of the boy
In the man who can lead men.
The man who is so wise that ha never
laughs is the greatest fool of all.
Many a cloud that we call sorrow Is but
the shadow of our own selfishness.
Nothing makes wrong seem Innocent
more quickly than to acquire an Interest
in It
No matter how eloquent the Hps heaven
ia deaf to prayer when the heart Is dumb.
The only way to have happiness as a
permanent guest Is to keep your door open
to the helpless.
To live wholly for possessions Is to para
lyze the life to the possibility of perma
nently possessing anything.
It often happens that the man who Is
most particular about tils own corns Is
least careful where he treads.
The man who always thinks of his rights
Is the first to forget that they always in
volve an equal number of responsibilities.
Chicago Tribune.
rtlRSOVAL AMD OTHERWISE,
Safe and sane, are same old racket.
For a man of 70 past the strenuous pace
of Mark Twain In England la no Joke.
Tesla's plan of talking to Mars affords
a large opening for Fourth of July ora
tors to get a hearing.
Tha fact Is worth noting that the mer
cury took an upward spurt as soon as the
colleges let go their degrees.
Chicago refuses to get excited over the
boost In laundry prices. Too many good
old swimming holes on the lake shore.
New York Judges cut some queer capers.
One of them rules that tha city streets
were made for pedestrians, not for base
ball players.
A son of Mark Hanna, surnamed Dan,
lends a dubious atmosphere to the family
name by a record of two divorces and three
wives. Dan Is young yet.
Cigarette dealers In Chicago, after pay
ing $46,000 Into the city treasury this year,
find themselves up against a prohibitory
law and want their money back. A sym
pathetic treasurer Jingles the coin an I
hands out lemon peel.
Grapevine advices from Oyster Bay In
timate that President Roosevelt has cut
out wood chopping as an exercise and
devotes his spare time to the bills pre
sented by mosquitoes. The Oyster Bay
variety invariably go against an executive
veto.
The Wabash railroad wants the city of
Buffalo to hand back $901,000 of good rull
road money paid for the Hamburg canal
strip, claiming that the city cannot give
a clear title. The mere fact of a railroad
paying real money for city property Is not
only unconstitutional and void, but entitles
the payee to a reserved seat in a padded
coll.
When the cool blast from Medicine Hat
butted Into a hot one at Medicine Lodge,
Kan., last week, there was something doing.
The combatants did not bother about
feathers of hens, but swooped all the do
mestic fowl within reach and mopped a
atretch of territory a mile long and a yard
wide. Cyclone cellars prevented several
funerals.
Banker John Farson of Chicago, creator
and exponent of the red necktie, pushes
Bathhouse Ooughlln to the rear and as
sumes the role of leader of Chicago
fashions. Recently the banker appeared in
an evening suit of pure white "embroidered
with delicate roses of near pink and yel
low." It Is said the layout storped the
elevated trains and the Justly celebrated
lake breese campeQ on the lake front to
view the enchanting spectacle.
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ECI'LAR "HOT" AT TUB riTLPIO
Cleveland leader: Bishop Lawrence sava
that Roosevelt Is like Moses. Maybe fu
lure generations will change flia old ex
presslon to "mock as Roosevelt."
Chicago Record 11. -raid: A Philadelphia
preacher has been deposed because he
failed to put on enough style to suit his
congregation. We are able to say In his b
half thnt he did not wear celluloid cuffs.
Baltimore American: The pastor of the
church which Mr. Rockefeller attends re
cently preached a sermon eulogizing tha
value of dreams. He did not stipulate,
however, tlmt It would be permissible for
members of his congregation to indulge in
them during service.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Out in Illinois
a clergyman wants to have the spectacular
effects of fashionable funerals entirely
abated. A funeral conducted aa this re
former suggests would bo without muslo
or flowers or the final look. Perhaps the
Illinois pastor will even go so far as to do
away Willi the harmless entertainment of
those sympathetic people who only attend
for the ride.
Brooklyn Kagle: A Baptist clergyman in
London conducted a funeral service attired
lu gray clothes, his avowed purpose being
to make the ceremony cheerful. Perhaps
If he had worn bright colored clothes tha
funeral would have been positively merry.
But we fear that the spirit of "Thana
topsis" is not to be cultivated that way,
and we are Inclined to duuht the clergy
man's sincerity. There is a talo of a man
who advertised his business on the family
vault, but ha did not lend a cheerful as
pect to the vault.
DOMESTIC Pl.EASAVIKIKS.
Mrs. Smith (decidedly) My husband s.nd
I had a clear understanding while we wars
engaged. .Mr. Smith said he wanted a,
plain deal In murriage.
Mrs. . Jones (maliciously) He needn't
worry. He got It. Baltimore American.
"You have beon abroad, haven't you, Mr.
Bniplelgh?"
"No, Miss Sharp. What mails you think
I had been abroad?"
"Why. I heard papa say you were 'way
oft." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Society leader What ! Is there a report
out that I ain going to marry Colonel Ga
zoo p? Why, I don't even know him!
Matronly Friend That proves nothing,
my dear. I have been married to, Dr,
Penuangan for thirty-seven years and don't
know him even yet. Chicago Tribune.
Mabel (sentimentally ) I would have for
a lover one of the t roubadour.s of the past
who would touch fur me his lovo-ladeii
lute.
Gladys (practically) I would prefer
multimillionaire of the present who would
let me "touch" his trusl-ladun lout. Phila
delphia, Prei-s.
"That was a homely looking woman I
saw you with last night."
"Don't tell my wife.''
"She didn't know about it. eh?"
"Ves, she was the woman." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The sharp penetrating voice of the young
woman's mother rung out on the still night
air:
"Marie, come In the houso this minute!
Haven't I told you "
"Mamma." interrupt! d an equally sharp
voice, appearing to come from some whuru
on the front porch, "this isn't Jack! This
Is Clarence! "Chicago Tribune.
TODW, NOT 1 USTEIUI A V.
J. M. Lewis in IIouslou foL
Why dream and sing of old days
When death Is ai I lie door?
The new way, the truo ways
We never trod beforn
Are Htt'fU'hing wide before, us:
oh, may no hearts deplor ua4
The blue sky arches o'er us
More splendid than of ynr
The yesterdays were glad oVi,
The olden days were kmri;
But sun Fhlm-a on the new ways,
The shadows stretch behind,
The rough ways a" behind us,
The dust that used i.i blind us.
And old time friends will find us
And all the f;ais be kind.
Why dream and sing of old days!
Our hand is on the door
That opens on a wider wsy
Than e'er we knew of yora;
The sweethearts) known of yore now.
The friends wli4i went before now,
The babies we deplore now
Await our love once mora.
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