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WHEN OUT OtT TOWN.
Sabecrlbera leaTlagr tk City tem
porarily akoald kav The 'Be
mailed to them. Address will
ekaaget mm ftea aa reetea.
Chancellor Day's wordery is 8 till
closed for repairs.
Every acre of Nebraska corn feels
about tea bushels stronger than it did
a week ago.
The Georgia legislature has voted
to take away from the negro a vote ho
has never had.
"The king of Slam has paid $76,000
for a thimble," says the New York
World. Is that sewT
Mayor "Jim's" crusade to change the
name of Sixteenth street will now take
a hot weather vacation. ''
Rev.; Thomas Dixon of "Clansman"
fame says he Is going to take a long
rest from literary work. Thanks.
Southern newspapers are bravely
refraining from offering New York a
lot of advice about how to handle race
Hots.
A careful reading of Mr. Rockefel
ler's copyrighted interview falls to re
veal any hint that he Intends to pay
that fine.
"Has the conservative south a pres
idential candidate?" asks the North
American Review. Is there a con
servative south?
Possibly the Mlsslsslpplans gave
Governor Vardaman that big vote In
the hope of transferring their troubles
to Washington.
. ,
Manufacturers of Jugs are looking
for a brisk business In Georgia after
next January, when the prohibition
law goes Into effect
"Ig Governor Johnson a man of
destiny?" asks the 81 Louis Globe
Democrat No. He Is a man ot Min
nesota, but of Swedish parentage.
Judging from the letter he has ex
ploded in the political camp at the
state house, Judge Roscoe Pound
bears an appropriate name.
The strike of the western coal
miners has been averted, but the op
erators will promptly find some other
ficuse for an advance of prices.
Attorneys Richardson and Darrow
are quarreling about the credit for the
acquittal of Haywood, Just aa they
would have been blaming each other
had he been convicted.
Mr. Fish and Mr.' Harriman are still
making remarks about each other and
the country is about convinced that
both are telling the truth.
A Chicago woman, arrested for
theft, says shs stole in order to make
Iter . mother comfortable. She suc
ceeded, however, only in making her
mother uncomfortable.
The list ot candidates tor nomina
tion filed with the county clerk again
proves the old saying that the political
"has-been" himself does not realise
that he belongs to the "Dowa-and-Out
club" until long after everyone else
has discovered It.
Old BUI Quantrell, the guerilla, is
reported alive up In British Columbia.
By the way. It has been a good while
since John Wilkes Booth has been
Identified aa a hermit In the Tennessee
mountains. Likewise, Alaska has
tailed to locat Willie Taacort or Char
ley Rosa tor more than a year.
C0HPOA4T7O- WITBUI CORPORATION.
While the statement made by Judge
Landts In Imposing the penalty for
law violation upon the Standard Oil
company has been discussed In many
of Its phases one .significant reference
has so far attracted comparatively lit
tle attention. The bigness of the fine
has staggered the trust magnates.
The possibility of recoupment by rais
ing prices to consumers has been
made a subject of speculation. The
probability of reversal or reduction of
the fine on appeal to higher courts
has been argued. The ffect on other
prosecutions has beea prognosticated.
But the excoriation of a corporation
within a corporation has been largely
overlooked. Explaining the reasons
for his dectBlon, Judge Landis, among.
other things, says:
The nominal defendant Is the Standard
OH company of Indiana, a million-dollar
corporation. The Standard Oil company of
New Jersey, whoe capital la HOO.OOO.flnO,
a the real defendant. Thla 1 o for the
re ion that if a body of men organise a
arge corporation tinder the laws of one
state for the purpose of carrying on bual-
neas throughout the United States and for
th accomplishment of that purpose absorb
the stock of other corporations, such 'cor
porations ao absorbed have thenceforward
but a nominal existence. They cannot
Initiate or execute any Independent busi
ness policy, their elimination In this re
spect being a prime consideration for Utelr
absorption. So, when, after this process
has taken place a crime haa been com
mitted in the nam of such smaller cor- j
poratlon, the taw will consider that ths
larger corporation Is the real offender. And
where the only possible motive of the
crime Is the enhancement of dividends and
the only punishment authorised Is a fine,
great caution must be exercised by the
court lest the fixing of a small amount
encourage the defendant to future viola
tions by assuming the penalty to be In the
nature of a license.
Should this principle become an ac
cepted principle of law, the scope of
its application will be almost limit
less. The "corporation within a corpor
ation" will have received a blow com
pletely destroying its usefulness for
Its intended purpose and the expan
sion of the sphere of influence of our
great railway systems and industrial
combines by the purchase of control
ling interests In the stocks of com
peting or subsidiary concerns will re
ceive a severe setback.
From this point of view the Union
Pacific, for example, under Mr. Harrl
man's regime would become responsi
ble and answerable for any lawless
ness on the part of the lesser corpor
ations in which It has stock holdings.
The Union Pacific Is a corporation em
bracing within it another corporation
known as the Pacific Express com
pany. Judge Landis would hold Mr.
Harriman and his associates In the
Union Pacific for offenses committed
by the Pacific Express company
through Its officers or agents because
the Union Pacific would get the greater
share of the profits and the express
company would be regarded as acting
tor the parent company.
The last report from the Union Pa
cific shows, In addition to this express
company ownership, large holdings of
stocks of other railroad and trans
portation companies $10,000,000 In
Alton, $15,000,000 in Great Northern.
$13,000,000 In Northern Pacific,
$108,000,000 in Southern Pacific,
$8,760,000 in Occidental & Oriental
Steamship company. The Union Pa
cific owns all of the stock also ot "a
score or more railroad feeders, union
depot companies, land companies, coal
companies and navigation companies.
Altogether the . Union Pacific owns
stocks of other companies aggregat
ing the tremendous total of $168,761,-
000, and In most cases in sufficient
quantities to be either the controlling
factor or to exert a very substantial
influence.
That some of these corporations
have been deliberately organized for
the purpose of doing things which the
Union Pacific Itself could not do un
der Its charter, and In some Instances
tor the deliberate purpose of evading
prohibitions of state or federal legis
lation. Is notorious. In other in
stances they have been organized to
enable favored officers to milk the
company at the expense of less favored
stockholders. Judge. Landis opinion
holds out a promise that all these
legal fictions, by which one corpora
tion masquerades under a dozen dif
ferent names, are to be wiped out, or
at least Ignored in criminal prosecu
tions. If the S indard Oil conviction results
In stopping this great and -growing
abuse. It will go further than the mere
punishment of a particular offense,
however colossal or aggravated.
bots' books and tfk truth.
It would be Interesting to know
what kind of boys and parents
they have up in Worcester, Mass.,
where the books ot Horatio Alger, Jr.,
have been barred from the public li
brary without a protest on the part of
patrons. Alger is now In distin
guished company with Mark Twain,
Robert W. Chambers, E. E. Sandys
and other producers of literature
whose works have been removed from
the shelves of the Worcester public
library ostensibly "because they are
not true."
What boys' books ot the day are
true? .Does any author or the pub
lisher claim that they are true? They
are none the less readable or instruc
tive en that account. Horatio Alger's
books have been the delight of Amer
ican boys for more than forty years
For the most part they are clean.
wholesome, exciting and entertaining
and at the same time highly instruc
tive. They are nearly all based on
historical Incidents and filled with
valuable Information collected from
the most reliable sources and deftly
woven Into the narrative without rob
bing It of any of Ita fascinating inter
est Alger and Edward Stratemeyer,
and Stewart Edward White and Ed E.
Sandys have been doing for the boys
of this generation what A. C Henty,
Captain Mayne Rled, "Oliver OpUo"
and J. Fenlmore Cooper did for the
boys of the earlier days. They have
been writing stories of adventure, with
their sidelights on life In the army,
the navy, In the camp, at college, on
the athletic fields and In every activ
ity In which boys delight
Perhaps the stories are not true,
but bo long as they are about clean,
wholesome boys, no boy can be hurt
morally or mentally by reading one of
them. If the action of the Worcester
library board makes the boys insist
on their right to read books they want
even if they have to buy them Instead
of borrowing them, the boys will be
the better for it
"AN OFFICER ASD A OKSTLKMAH "
Court-martial proceedings have
been held in two cases in the last
week, the results of which indicate
the determination of the officials of
the War department to keep the stand
ard of the army up to the old mark.
For years the country haa been edu
cated to the belief that a man grad
uated from West Point is entitled to
the distinction of being "an officer and
a gentleman." So well established,
particularly in army circles, Is the re
quirement that the wearer of the uni
form must meet both these require
ments that many courts-martial in
which army officers are Involved turn
on the charge that the defendant has
been guilty ot "conduct unbecoming
an officer and a gentleman," and no
more humiliating charge can be rested
against an officer ot the army.
The two cases in question come un
der this specification. An army
nurse at Fort Riley loaned an officer
of the Sixteenth battery of siege ar
tillery a considerable sum of money
on his promising to marry her. He
repudiated his promise, both as to the
matrimonial bargain and as to the re
turn of the borrowed money. He was
tried by a court-martial of his fellow
officers, found guilty and sentenced to
three years' Imprisonment at Fort
Leavenworth and at the expiration of
his term of imprisonment will be dis
missed from the army without honor.
The second case was that of a
Twelfth cavalry'lleutenant, who wrote
this letter to the mother of an en
listed man who had served under him:
Mrs. 81ms, Clarksburg, W. Vs.-Dear
Madam: It gives me great pleasure to
Inform you that your son, Earl Sims, who
Is about the most worthless scoundrel I
ever saw, la a deserter from the United
States army. I sincerely hope to see him
behind the bar for at least two year.
Hoping this will be a source of condolence
to yoij, I am. very respectfully.
GEORGE A, F. TRUMBB.
First Lieutenant, Twelfth Cavalry, Com
manding Troop S.
The court-martial found that Lieu
tenant Trumbe waa not guilty of "con
duct unbecoming an officer and a gen
tleman," but was guilty of "conduct
to the prejudice of good order and
military discipline." The sentence of
the court was that he should be repri
manded by the reviewing authorities
and be confined for two months to the
limits of the station at which hs rray
be serving. In approving the sentence
Major General Grant, commanding the
Department of the East, holds it en
tirely Inadequate, because Jt should
have been severe enough to guarantee
that an officer would not again be
guilty of such misconduct.
The sentence of the court-martial
In the first case was eminently proper.
In the second case, as General Grant
says, the court-martial was far too
lenient. The officer who would write
such a letter to a mother whose heart
was aching for news of her son, no
matter bow worthless that son might
be, disgraced the uniform he wears
aud should have been deprived ot his
right to wear it.
KXPRIfS C03tPXIS8 AS BANKKRS.
A complaint filed with the Interstate
Commerce commission by the Ameri
can Bankers' association furnishes an
other explanation of the system of
high financing by which the express
companies have been able to make
frequent distribution of accumulated
surpluses, amounting sometimes to
more than the capital stock. The
American Bankers' association alleges
that the express companies are en
gaged In the banking business, al
though their charters do not author
ise such enterprises. The chief cause
of complaint, however, Is the fact that
the express companies compel the
banks to furnish the capital with
which this express-banking business Is
carried on, while the express com
panies reap all the profits ot the opera
tion. The situation, though a little com
plicated, is decidedly Interesting. Ac
cording to the banks, the express com
panies deal in exchange, both domes
tic an,d foreign, In every form, buying
and selling foreign money and trans
ferring the same by cable, thus con
ducting a general financial business.
It Is charged that the express com
panies carry money for the public at
lower rates than they charge the
banks for the same service. In other
words, an express company will
charge a bank more to transport
money than it will charge an indi
vidual, using the express money order
as a medium of exchange. The banks
are then forced to cash express money
orders and drafts without charging in
terest, thus supplying to the express
companies the capital to compete with
the banks In the transaction of busi
ness. It is maintained that these
facta constitute a violation of the In
terstate commerce act, and the Inter
state Co mm roe commission Is urged
to take such action aa will prevent
the express companies from violating
the law and afford the complaining
banks adequate protection against
these alleged unfair and discrimina
tory operations.
Aside from the merits of the con
troversy, the proceedings before the
Interstate Commerce commission must
serve to strengthen the Impression
that the express companies are really
subsidiary or parasitic concerns to the
railroad companies, performing func
tions that really belong to the rail
roads, the banks and the postofflce.
Most express companies are admittedly
controlled by the railroads over which
they operate. They make contracts
with the railroads and use the rail
road property for the conduct of their
business. With the railroad com
panies furnishing the cars, rolling
stock and other transportation facili
ties needed by them and the banks
furnishing the capital necessary for
their exchange and money order busi
ness, It Is more easily understood
how the express companies can cut
$34,000,000 melons, as the Adams
company did a few weeks ago.
CBjlfOKS iy THE BtKATK.
While the country is accustomed to
frequent changes in the personnel and
In the political complexion of the
lower house of congress, changes In
the senate are usually the work of
years. The passing of Senators Pettus
and Morgan of Alabama serves, how
ever, to call attention to the fact that
an unusually large number of changes
will have taken place in the senate
when congress meets in December.
Rsrely, except in times ot great polit
ical upheaval, has the membership un
dergone such alterations between suc
cessive sessions, and the changes may
have a material and decided effect
upon the disposition of matters of
public importance to be presented to
the consideration of the Sixtieth con
gress. Since adjournment thirteen
new members have been chosen to the
senate, a change In the personnel of
one-seventh of the membership of that
body.
Alabama's representation is entirely
changed, J. H. Bankhead and J. F.
Johnson having been chosen to suc
ceed Senators Morgan and Pettus, both
ot whom have died. Wisconsin sends
Stephenson to succeed the brilliant
Spooner, who resigned. Borah suc
ceeds Dubois from Idaho, Guggenheim
comes from Colorado in place of the
fiery Patterson and Dixon represents
Montana, succeeding W. A. Clark.
Dryden of New Jersey, Millard of Ne
braska and Allee of Delaware are
succeeded by republicans of their own
party. Berry of Arkansas, Carmack
of Tennessee and Blackburn of Ken
tucky are democrats who were de
feated for re-election by other demo
crats. Bourne succeeds Mitchell of
Oregon and Rhode Island has failed
to elect anyone to succeed Wetmore,
whose term expired last March.
The political significance of these
changes lies in the fact that Senator
Teller of Colorado is the sole remain
ing democrat in the senate represent
ing a state north of Mason and Dixon's
line, Patterson of Colorado, Dubois of
Idaho and Clark of Montana having
given way to republicans. The repub
lican majority in the senate has been
large enough for all legislative pur
poses, hut In many important mat
ters the administration has not had
the full support of the party in the
aenate. The changes made In the re
publican ranks will strengthen the
president's policies in the senate.
Bourne of Oregon, Dixon ot Montana,
Guggenheim of Colorado, Brlggs of
New Jersey, Brown of Nebraska and
Stephenson of Wisconsin, all new
members, are pledged to the support
of what are known as "Roosevelt pol
icies," and could not have been elected
without . such pledges. On the other
band, the sturdy Berry of Arkansas,
the scintillating Carmack of Tennes
see and the fighting Blackburn of Ken
tucky have been succeeded by lesser
lights, weakening the opposition at a
time when the republican ranks have
been strengthened.
Altogether, the changes in the senate
promise to be of material benefit to
the administration and to the people.
Governor Sheldon has finally taken
action to replace Superintendent Stew
art who haa been in charge ot the
Nebraska School for the Deaf for the
last six years. There Is no question
but that Mr. Stewart since he took
hold of the institution, has accom
plished a great deal in elevating its
standard of instruction and restoring
discipline, which had been almost en
tirely destroyed during the previous
populist regime. In doing this very
necessary work he evidently trod on
the toes of some people who have
succeeded now in persuading the gov
ernor that a change is necessary.
Having decided that Mr. Stewart was
not to be retained. Governor Sheldon
is to be commended at least for select
ing as his successor a man who has
bad practical experience in the In
struction of the deaf rather than turn
ing these unfortunates over to the
tender mercies of some educational
experimenter. For the sake of the
deaf and dumb children who must get
their training there it Is to be hoped
the new superintendent will meet all
requirements.
A Topeka druggist has testified in
court that his liquor sales in July
amounted to $1,400, while his pre
scription trade brought In but $4.60.
Ordinarily $1,400 worth of Kansas
drug store boose would call for more
than $4.60 in bmmns and headache
powders.
The assertion that Judge Landis'
fine of the Standard Oil company vio
lates the constitutional prohibition
against "cruel and unusual punish
ment" Is worthy of consideration. The
cruel may not be cruel, but was cer
tainly unusual.
H. S. Daniels of Kansas, whoever
he may be, says that President Roose
velt could not carry that state next
year. The significant feature of the
Daniels statement is that It is neither
Important nor true.
In his annual message to congress
In 1904 President Roosevelt said:
"On the subject of the tariff I will ad
dress you later." Standpatters now
fear , that "later" meant December,
1907.
The government report furnishes
additional evidence that we are to
have an average crop snd conditions
guarantee a little better than average
prices. Fslth in Mother Earth Is
never misplaced.
"Grief Is often the forerunner of
Joy," says the Baltimore American.
Yes, and Joy Is often the forerunner
of grief, as the politician has observed
on his trip from the primaries to the
polls.
Governor Sheldon has announced his
military staff officers. The Identity of
the rest of the colonels may be dis
closed some time before the governor's
term expires.
Cause of Heat Ware.
Minneapolis Journal.
Chancellor Day has not yet spoken re
garding that $29,000,000 fine, but he Is throw
ing oft great waves of heat.
The Royal Salute.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
No special significance attaches to the
recent meeting In mldocean of the em
perors of Russia and Oermany. It wns
simply a case of "Hello, Nick!" "Hello,
Bill!"
The Newest Breakfast Food.
Chicago Tribune.
There Is nothing new In the allercd dis
covery that the use of onions and pea
nuta promotes longevity. But who wants
to purchase long life at a cost ot a diet
of onions and peanuts?
Government Hlah Flyera.
Minneapolis Journal.
The government is practicing with me
teorological kites that exert a pull of 100
pounds and are wound In with a. steam
windlass. There are some pretty high
flyers In government service.
Every Little Helps.
Washington Herald.
Naturally. Mr. John D. Rockefeller In
state unon the arovernment paying his 192.60
claim for witness fees. With a fine of
128,240,000 staring his customers in th face,
he wants to collect all that ha can from
other source.
Corn Oat of It.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
And even if the fine Is paid, says Mr.
Bryan, who know that it will not be taken
out of the people who buy oil? Under the
circumstances, perbapa. It la Just a well
for Mr. Bryan to look around and aea If
he can't unload his automobile on some
body right now. ,
All the World a Divorce Coart.
New York Sun.
In 1901 Germany had 4,675 divorces; tha
last annual total waa 6.R56. French di
vorce In 1884 were L477; In 1004 thoy were
14,892; last year the number was 16,224.
English statistics printed recently showed
Iso a striking increase In marital break-
Ings-up. Uniform laws might simplify the
problem in the United States, but what's
to do when all tha world Is a great divorce
court?
Growth of the National Idea.
New Orleans Picayune.
There la no danger of another armed con
flict over questions of state rights. The
United States la today a nation, one of the
greatest upon our globe, and In respect
to all the element of physical power the
greatest I tsx constituent states have been
welded together in the white heat of a
terrible war In order to prepare It for the
tremendous career It Is to run and the
grand destiny It Is to accomplish. To that
end all the public affairs of its people tend
to centralization, since only' as a great
consolidated nation it can fulfill a com
manding part in the world's events.
PROSPERITY PROSPECTS.
Entile Search for Clouds on the
Hortson.
Indianapolis News.
Popular belief, if not political economy,
has long held that a period of prosperity
must be followed by a period of reaction
or hard times. In the many fat years that
have now been our portion men have often
wondered when the reaction was coming.
or have at least paused to say that It was
going to come. We do know that it has
not come; even the Wall street "flurry,"
which hurt many people that It ought to
have hurt, has probably made the general
condition sounder. At all events no cloud
Is 'Visible on the horlaon of the country's
expanding prosperity. The average of
wages ha never been so high and all forms
of activity have known no check. While,
perhaps, we shall never get over th ex
pectation that a lull must come, no algn
of it have yet appeared. 'though feverish
peculation haa subsided somewhat and
banks are exercising more caution.
Tha crop outlook 1 favorable. Factories
have orders a year ahead in many cases
and a reflection of the vlewa of bilness
men based on experience and of editors
of trad Journal 1 that condition were
never better. The New York Time ha
been gathering opinion from sinen repre
senting the leading tradea and Industries.
These men argue from present conditions
and tendencies not only a continuation but
even an Increase of prosperity. The recog
nised scarcity of money la taken to be
evidence of business activity, and It Is
thought that in the end the good crops and
th conservative spirit of business will
counteract the monetary stringency. Dun's
weekly review, after noting the monotony
of th high agricultural record of recent
years, say tha same story Is to be told
this year, and adds that any probable los
of export of farm product promise to
be neutralised by the marvelous progress
made by our manufactured products In the
world's markets. Thus, viewed from a!)
sides. It Is seen that the country's future
promise only the golden rewsrds of steady
Industry and with aoipl opportunity for
all to b industrious.
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SERMON'S BOILED DOWN.
Your superiority does not depend on
your pedestal.
Religion Is the touch of the infinite on
all our affalra.
It takes more than soft solder to cement
soula together.
An honest message never has trouble
finding hearers.
Self Is the only thing that really can
break love ties.
It takes more than beadacbe cures to
set the heart light.
A cross disposition Is no evidence of
bearing the divine cross.
No man Increases his own good reputa
tion by stealing another's.
Tho only worthy high living is that
which puta the soul on top.
No great deeds are done without the
doing of many little details.
When a man boasts of his oourag he
la giving It absent treatment.
Preach the pleasures of piety and peo
ple willingly will bear Its palna.
Society has Its temptations, but they
are a nothing to those of solitude.
The heart that feeds on pride munt
have many an ache In Its stomach.
As conscience becomes atrophied the
critical faculties often become active.
There's no advantage In making ni?n
weary with a sermon Inviting them to
rest.
Many think they can overcome sin by
shooting glittering generalities at the
devil.
You might be a walking theological sem
inary and still' be traveling the wrong
road. Chicago Tribune.
PERSONAL. AM) OTHERWISE.
B peaking about the weather but, what's
the use?
The lack of activity of Medicine Hat
proves that the famous refrigerating "lid"
is on a vacation.
The Russian government cannot be a
bad as it Is frequently painted. It has
Jugged an American for wearing a flaming
red necktie.
Scarcely had the American dentist fin
ished the Job of plugging the teeth of the
Sultan of Morocco when trouble began.
But the dentist escaped.
The Treasury Department has a thor
oughly equipped fumlgatory ready for busi
ness as aoon a that bundle of tainted
money is handed in by tha Standard Oil
crowd. Not a taint will escape. '
An Indiana woman ' who married the
undertaker the day after her husband's
funeral showed quick and keen appre
ciation of an artistic 'piece of work. The
doleful profession has .Its bright spots.
The King of Slam has Invested 17.500 In
a diamond-studded thimble for his favorite
wife one of three hundred. A man who
can issue an order, "Off with her head,"
and have It executed, can afford to be
fearless.'
Mississippi is out for a sites of the Stand
ard Oil melon, some 1, 480,000. with which
to patch a few breaches in the anti-trust
law. If this thing keeps up much longer
Standard OH ' dividends will look as woe
begone as a coal dealer In a cut rate war.
Since the passage of the prohibition law
in Georgia the Atlanta Constitution has
opened wide its columns to correspondents
whose effusions are appropriately headed,
' Growlers." As tha law doe not go Into
effect ui'.tll January 1, 1908, It 1 peculiarly
fitting to rush the growler while the keg
holds out.
The Indictment of the Chicago Fish trust
Is the most direct evidence available of
the government's dislike of watered stock.
Missouri's pure food law rudely Jars the
foot power of the state. Bakers are for
bidden to knead dough with their feet, thus
robbing the staff of life of a unique mis
sourt flavor.
Th Beef trust gets another knock, this
time In California. One Professor Jaffa
assures a hungry world that a dime's
worth of peanuts contain more exhilarat
ing and satisfying nutriment than a porter
house steak. The professor ought to know.
He has tackled the California steak with
his teeth Instead of an ax.
There will be a general gathering of the
membera of the Grant family for the wed
ding of Lieutenant Ulysses 8. Grant, third,
and Miss Edith Root, whether It takes place
In New York or In Washington In Septem
ber, or at th country place of the bride s
parent. Secretary of State and Mr. Elihu
Root, at Clinton, N. Y., before that. Lieu
tenant Grant brother-in-law and lt.r.
Prince and Princess Catacusene, ar likely
to coma over with his aunt, Mrs. Potter
Palmar, aoon due from England.
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St. Louis Republic: An Arkansas
preacher In an auto ran down two per
sons. Arkansas ministers enjoy morj
luxuries than colleagues In sister states
Chicago Tribune: "How shall we secur
a greater attendance of young peoplo at
our Sunday schools?" Inquires an anxious)
superintendent. If everything else falla
brother, try a box of fudges.
Baltimore News: The "Handbook fo
Catholic Parishioners of the Archdiocese!
of Milwaukee" contains numerous gocl
regulations, among which Is the follow
lng solid American precept: "To abstain!
from voting Is always poor politics andl
often poor Christianity."
Minneapolis Journal: Rev. Joseph A.
Serena of a Syracuse, N. Y., church ha
arranged to place a soda fountain In St"
lobby of hla church, from which driiils
will be served to people In the pews. I a
this way he "hopes to prevent the usual
midsummer slump In church attendance."
It will be recalled that when the apoBtlea)
went about It Is said that "great multi
tudes followed them," but It Is not r
corded- that they had a soda fountain 1st
the vestibule.
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DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"You cannot marry my daughter, sir, un
til her education is completed."
"But her education can't be completed
until after she has married me." Brook
lyn Life.
"I saw you weeping bitterly at that
funeral yesterday."
"Oh, did you? 1 was afraid nobody wa
noticing me." Philadelphia Press.
"Will you marry me?"
"Go get a reputation first." i
"Huh?" , , ,
"Get accepted by some other girl In my
set, and then I'll consider you." Cleve
land Leader.
"Iok at the beautiful
engagement ring
"Why don't you do as Belle did?"
"What was that?"
"She made him hsve the stones reset
when he gave It to her. Baltimore Ameri
can. Social Theory Crank-I tell you. myi
dear sir, I have found out this question,
of bread In the average household Is a,
weighty one. . . .
Practical Frlend-You talk as If you hail
been eating some of my wife'a biscuit.
Washington Herald.
"Yes," said the voluble crank, "I use$
to be aa bad as you. but I made up mr
mind to quit smoking and drinking, an
I did it."
"lndefd?" remarked Manley: "I guess s
man who can quit smoking and drinking
could quit almost anything"
Exc'"' talking about lt."-Cathol!
Standard and Times.
"Pee here," exclaimed the society re
porter, "you speak of Miss Mugley as tha
acknowledged beauty of the youngef)
set." "
"Yes. Well?" replied his assistant.
"Who acknowledges that?"
"She does." Philadelphia Pre.
-
"No," she said, with a sharp click of
her white teeth. "I wouldn't marry th)
best man on earth."
"Then." he quickly remarked, a h
took up1 his hat, "your dearest friend,
Mamie Milkweed, will get him."
And he started for the Milkweed horn.
Of course she called him back. Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
THE SHEPHERDESS.
Archibald Sullivan, In Smart Set.
If I could chose my path of life
From out this world of tangled ways.
I think I'd sooner live and tend
A little flock of all the days.
Upon the bluest hills that are
Th fairy hills of Dream Com Tnio
I, shepherdess, would tend the flock.
My bread a rose, my cup the dew.
And all the timid days of May,
The blustering days of winter weather.
The burning days of August time
Would wander wide with me together. '.
And ere the sun made silver lace jff
Upon the pillow of th sky,
I'd call a little day to me,
And kiss Its moulh-and say, "Oood-by.,
And to the world that lay so far
Away from those my pastures blue.
Each morn I'd send another one
From those dear hills of Dreams Com)
True.
And as the weens crept slowly by.
And as the months went drifting on,
I, shepherdess, upon the hills.
Would And my flock waa nearly grn,
And tlien when there were fewer still-.
Perhaps Just only two or three
My ravlnhed flock upon th hill
Would be exceeding dear to me.
When on December day waa left,
A little day of grief and snow,
I'd place my kiss upon Its brow,
My last farewell and bid It go.
1 oen . uuiu a luicur citcp away
Behind the sunsxt's amber rays, ,
To dream how I had tended wall
My Utile flock, ot ail tU dt.