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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION,
fltato of Nebraska, Douglas County, sr.:
Oeorge B. Tischuck. treasurer of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly
awom, say that the actual number of
full and complete copies of The Dally.
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bt printed
during; the month of December, 1907, was
as follows:
1 30,400 17 36,840
2 37,150 18 86,020
t 37,370 II 80.640
3T,B0 20 36,580
.....i... 87,330 21 36,350
SS.M0 22 30.300
1 37,000 21 30,400
3OJ100 24 38,890
80,030 25 30,000
10 37,030 2 30,080
11 37,000 27 30,090
12 80,740 28 30,300
It 37,630 29 ... 3000
14 30,010 SO 30,110
IS 30,850 81 30,610
1( 38,900
Totals 1,138,900
J .ess unsold and returned copies. 8,804
Net total '.1,189,770
Dally average 30,444
GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK.
Treasurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 2d day of January, 1808.
ROBERT HUNTER,
Notary Public.
WHEN OPT Or TOWN.
beerlbers leavrtBsj tho city teat
orartly shomld bar The
an ailed to tkena. Address will
aaa4 aa at tea sua reaeeed.
The only way to cheat the girl out
of her leap year privilege la to beat her
to it
Wireless reports from the driver of
the water wagon atato that ho has a
few choice seats left.
, Nothing la a name, after all. John
Barefoot has been sent to Jail In Ok
lahoma for bootlegging.
The now year would be happier It
more people "would keep quiet when
they have nothing to oay.
Senator Foraker should tell how a
favorite ion feels when he discovers
that he Is not a favorite son.
"Cupid Is a side partner of the
tailors," says a southern exchange.
Because ho presses the suits?
The ball teams aro a little slow
about winning the coming season's
championship, around the office stove.
"The worst U over," says the Toledo
Blade. The Blade man must have
paid cash for his Christmas purchases.
"There's plenty of cero weather out
west," says the Boston Herald. Pos
sibly, but It isn't working at It very
hard.
The year 1908 will probably go Into
history as marking the time the con
gress talked so much about currency
reform.
Notice how the life insurance com
panies are economising in the free dis
tribution of handsome calendars and
blottersT
Jararskjones Is still predicting the
election of Mr. Bryan. He doubtless
swore off the rest of his bad habits on
January 1.
A German count who married an
American heiress has renounced his
ttle. The wife will probably wonder
now why she married him.
Burglars went through the house of
a Pittsburg preacher and stole nothing
but his 'sermon. The wise burglar
takes only the things he needs.
"Jeff Davis is entirely different from
other senators," says a St. Louis paper.
Not quite. He lost no time In getting
his relatives on the government pay
roll.
"Assuming that Bryan is the demo
cratic nominee," says the Brooklyn
Eagle, "and assuming that be carries
his own state, Nebraska " but that's
far enough to follow the assumption.
Congress is to Investigate reports
that certain white men have been
cheating the Indiana out of their lands
1b Oklahoma. The country Is cer
tainly getting better when It declares
It wrong to cheat an Indian.
'Mr. Taft is being severely criticised
for Insisting upon upholding the presi
dent's policies. Tbo secretary can
stand the criticism, as he knows about
how far ary candidate can get In this
country by opposing those policies.
Oovernor Vardaman refuses to ad
mit children of Italians into the public
schools of Mississippi, although the
talldren were born in the United
State. The governor seems to bo
dead set against anything that might
Improve conditions la Mississippi.
A UODth L1CKMB l,Ar.
Distillers and wholesalers of liquor
tn Kentucky have undertaken to have
prepared, with the aid of experts and
other disinterested advisers, a model
license law upon which they may take
a stand as against the growing de
mands of the prohibitionists in the
southern states.
If the preparation of such a measure
Is to be guided by experience, the
model license law will not differ very
much from that which has been In
operstlon here in Nebraska for more
than twenty-five years. Considering
the fact that Nebraska was a pioneer
In the high license movement, the
Blocumb law enacted by our legislature
In 1881 and only slightly modified since
that time hao, as a whole, proved to be
the most satisfactory liquor traffic reg
ulator that has been tried anywhere.
The Blocumb law is a high license
law, S500 being the minimum license
fee in smaller towns and villages, and
$1,000 the minimum In the larger
cities. The very suggestion of a $1,000
license fee twenty-five years ago would
have caused cold shivers In places
where now it would be welcomed as
a bulwark against complete prohibi
tion. The Slocumb law, moreover, is a
local option law. It leaves it to the
people of each community to determine
whether or not licenses shall be Issued
for the' sale of liquor and gives them
an opportunity to change their policy
once every year or at least no less
frequently than every two years.
The Slocumb law, in addition to
these prime requirements, throws cer
tain restrictions about the business to
prevent the sale to minors, or to
women, or to habitual drunkards, the
sale of liquor on Sundays, the obstruc
tion of doors and windows by screens.
It prescribes certain forms to be pur
sued in applying for license so that any
one desiring to protest may enter a
remonstrance. It penalizes violators
of the law with revocation of the
license.
In some of these minor details the
Nebraska law may be regarded as ex
treme and harsh, and perhaps open to
question, but It affords each community
the opportunity to establish the sort
of regulation for Itself within the ex
press limitations of the law that public
sentiment calls for. So long as the
time-tried Slocumb law is on our
statute books no other model license
law will be heeded for use In Nebraska.
QVKSTlOy OF C1TIL pknsions.
By taking It out of its context and
wilfully distorting its meaning, a
single sentence In The Bee's discus
sion of Drover Cleveland's suggestion
of a pension for ex-presidents, Is made
to furnish the democratic World
Herald an excuse for a diatribe against
civil pensions in general as an Incident
to a vicious attack on the last demo
cratic president.- The silk stocking
editor-congressman who is drawing
$7,500 a year out of the national treas
ury practically as a civil pension tries
to make out that The Bee Is advocat
ing a privileged class of life pap-
suckers which would eventually in
clude not only the presidents, "but also
the members of his cabinet, members
of congress, the diplomatic corps, gov
ernors, clerks in the departments and
everybody who attains to the dignity
of office." Of course The Bee has never
advocated anything of the kind, but if
there were any chance of creating such
a pension list the editor of the World
Herald would be hot for it, because it
would insure him and several other
members of his family charter mem
bership In the pension roll.
Should the question of civil pensions
ever come up it will not be disposed
of by venting spleen on Grover Cleve
land or cartooning him as a lusty
beggar too lasy to work. It Is not
necessarily involved in the proposal to
pension ex-presldents, Inasmuch as a
pension for the commander-in-chief of
the army and navy could be made to
rest on the same basis as the pensions
for retired army and naval officers.
That is what The Bee pointed out and
what seems to have given the World
Herald's solon such a sudden attack
of editorial Jim-jams. As the congres
sional session is yet young there Is
reason to hope the patient may sur
vive and be eventually restored to
health.
F1QRTMQ FOR LOWER REST.
The declaration that 30,000 familfes
living in the squalid section of the
East Side in New York City are behind
the agitation for a reduction of rents
and a betterment of tenement condi
tions Is doubtless an exaggeration, but
It Is evident that thousands are in
volved In the dispute now raging, at
tended by evictions, riots and distress
ing complications between the exacting
landlords and the unhappy tenants.
The tenants demand a reduction of
about 3 0 per cent In the rental rates,
and support their demands with data
Indicating a most deplorable condition
In the tenement districts. They show
that many of the buildings In which
tbey are housed are mere ramshackles,
condemned by the Insurance companies
and occupied only at the risk of the
lives of the tenants. The other side of
the contention is that prices of real
estate have advanced so rapidly in
Manhattan and that taxes have been so
Increased that what appears to be
exorbitant rent charges are really
necessary and unavoidable.
The one good result of the agitation
is the attention directed to, conditions
In the tenement districts. Under this
searchlight, it appears that holders and
owners of these tenement buildings
usually sublet them to agents, whoso
profits come in demanding excessive
rentals and dispossessing unfortunates
Jn arrears. The aid of tho polio and
the courts has been often enlisted in
enforcing these exactions from tenants,
and a system has been built up which
demands eradication before there can
be any fitting readjustment of relations
between owner and tenants.
It is now promised that the authori
ties of the city are to take a hand, to
the end that the sanitary conditions of
the tenements shall be Improved and
the buildings rendered safe and fit for
occupation. The contest over rent
rates will do good in the end, if only It
forces a betterment of living condi
tions by eliminating the irresponsible
mercenaries who have profited by ex
ploiting both ends of the business.
THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION.
A symposium of contributions on
timely railway topics, printed by the
Railway Age, brings several high en
dorsements of the suggestion made
some time ago by The Bee for a re
organization of the Interstate Com
merce commission with a view to ena
bling it to perform Its duties more
promptly and more satisfactorily.
Governor Chamberlain of Oregon
declares outright that there is no ques
tion but that this commission is too
small to attend to the business it has
In hand and that it ought to be largely
increased and its power extended.
Chairman Ira B. Mills of the Minne
sota Railroad commission proposes in
detail a solution almost identical with
that offered by The Bee. He'says:
I think the Interstate commerce law
should be amended by establishing districts
throughout the country somewhat similar
to the circuits of the United States court,
and In each of these districts there should
be a deputy or under commissioner clothed
with authority to pass upon most of the
questions that arise In his district, allowing
an appeal to the central commission In
Washington by either the railroad company
or shipper. By this method the district or
local commissioner would have an oppor
tunity to become thoroughly familiar with
the conditions in his territory, which It is
Impossible for the central commission In
Washington to do. The local commissioner
would be able to settle without any contro
versy probably about 90 per cent of all the
questions raised In his district, and in
other matters to afford Immediate relief.
The chairman of the Minnesota
Railroad commission goes on to say
that the trouble now with the Inter
state Commerce commission Is that it
is too far away from the people and
that tho small shipper or man without
means is unable to get the relief he
ought to have. This Is seen by the
complaints continually coming to state
commissioners of interstate matters,
many of which are adjusted by the
state commissions. If the Interstate
commission could act through the state
commission these difficulties could be
met in the simplest manner, but some
device is urgently needed by which
the people may get nearer the power
that has the right to pass upon their
grievances and enforce its decisions.
The reorganization of the Interstate
Commerce commission through sub
divisions on territorial lines Is becom
ing more and more Imperative, and al
though it may possibly be delayed for
a while, must eventually be brought
about through the necessary congres
sional legislation if our present meth
ods of regulating Interstate commerce
are to prove successful.
DUELING ON THB DOWN GRADE.
Hungary has furnished the needed
touch to place the code duello in the
farce class. The French have been
leading the duel up to the point of
absurdity for a number of years, but
they have' religiously observed certain
forms in compliance with the long
established provisions of the code.
When Frenchmen have engaged in
desperate, if bloodless, duels, they
have adhered closely to the etiquette
of tho game. While they have adopted
all precautions to prevent the partici
pants from being Injured needlessly,
they have still been punctilious, in
their observance of all the prescribed
gestures, passes and motions calcu
lated to make the mimic bluff pass for
the real thing. No Frenchman, for
example, would feel that his honor
had been vindicated if his opponent
slapped him across the back with the
flat of his sword and told him to go
get a reputation. That, however, is
about what happened in the latest
notable duel just pulled off in Hun
gary. It seems that Dr. Wekerle, the Hun
garian premier, and an ex-minister of
Justice, met on the streets of Budapest
and Immediately drew swords. The
ex-minister made a lunge, according
to the prescribed form, when Dr.
Wekerle' "broke down his guard and
dealt him harmless blows with the fiat
of his sword, whereupon the minister
apologized and the men shook hands."
That is clearly the limit. The ca
ble does not furnish the details, but it
is plain that the premier simply used
bis dueling sword as an instrument
with which to spank his rival. To add
to the richness, it Is solemnly recorded
that the emperor sent his congratula
tions to the premier.
Such a thing could not happen In
France, as Is Illustrated by the current
cable story of the reasons why Count
Bonl.de Castellane and Prince Helle
de Sagan have refused to settle by the
code duello a Utile affair that started
in a fist fight on the street. Count
Boni, according to report, took a
smash at the prince, knocked him into
the gutter and rolled him in the mud.
The count then retired to his apart
ments and awaited the expected chal
lenge, only to discover that the prince
is a stickler for the proprieties. "If
Bonl had struck me in the face with
bis glove," says the prince, "I would
fight him. but by knocklnj me down
with his fkt he has placed himself out
side the laws governing affairs of
honor. I cannot challenge him."
When tbo obsolete practice of duel
ing was In vogue in America it at least
meant something. It was participated
in by men who were angry enough to
fight, and to fight to kill. It is diffi
cult for Americans, therefore, to un
derstand how men can go through the
motions of deadly battle on the field
of honor and then fall on each other's
necks and weeplngly declare that the
wounds of honor are healed.
TUB CHARITIES OF A YBAR.
In striking contrast with the re
trenchments In the Industries and
economies adopted in various activities
is the record of gifts for the public
good made by the owners of great
wealth In the year Just ended. Ac
cording to compiled figures, these bene
factions, divided among educational
institutions, galleries, museums, hos
pitals, homes, missions and churches,
amounted in the aggregate to $121,
856,973. This marks a new record in
the century's gifts to charitable causes
and demonstrates a commendable spirit
of trusteeship among those particu
larly favored In worldly possessions.
The list of donors, ranked according
to the amounts given, is headed by
John D. Rockefeller, whose contribu
tions to different institutions and
causes aggregate $42,000,000. An
drew Carnegie comes second with a
credit of $25,000,000, while Henry C.
Frick, P. A. B. Widener, J. Plerpont
Morgan, Count John A. Creighton,
Charles M. Schwab, Bloodgood Cutter,
R. N. Carson, W. C. Andrews and
Thomas R. Patton are among those
whose donations or bequests are In ex
cess of $2,000,000.
It is significant to note that about
one-fifth of the aggregate donations
are made by women. Chief of these
donors Is Mrs. Russell Sage, who has
already distributed something like
$14,000,000 of the vast estate left to
her by her husband. The dozen lead
ers among the women, with the
amounts given by them, are aa follows:
Mrs. Russell Sage. New York City .$13,830,000
Miss Anne T, Jeanes, Philadelphia 2,312,108
Mrs. C. R. Qalland, New Haven,
Conn 1,500,000
Mrs. H. A. Currier, Manchester,
N. ir 1,000.000
Miss E. D. Glbbs, Newport, R. I... 750.000
Miss Kate McKnlght, Pittsburg... 600.000
Mrs. Sarah Ropes, Salem, Mass... 600,000
Mrs. Laura Currier, New York
City 2W.0O0
Miss Helen Gould, New York City. 266,000
Miss Florence Lyman, Boston 260,000
Mrs. Potter, Boston 180,000
Mrs. II. C. Durand, Chicago 175,000
To this list should be added the
name of Mrs. Eddy, head of the Chris
tian Scientists, who has set aside $1,
000,000 for charitable purposes.
The contribution of such large sums
to public purposes is particularly signi
ficant at this time, when so much is
being said about the power of money
and the evil it may do when concen
trated in the hands of a few persons.
While we may Justly quarrel with the
methods by which many large fortunes
have been amassed and hope for a more
equitable distribution of wealth in the
future, we cannot be unmindful of the
blessings which must follow the proper
employment of this vast fund for
charitable, educational, religious and
other worthy objects. Under existing
conditions welcome must be offered to
this generous fund for the lessening of
crime, ignorance, poverty and disease.
Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia
declares his belief that the power of
the railroads to rush Into the federal
courts with temporary injunctions has
done them more harm than good. We
do not know what the results have
been elsewhere, but the attempt of the
railroads to evade their taxes in Ne
braska by the aid of federal court in
junctions has certainly done them more
harm than good. But will they ever
learn enough to profit by their blun
ders to the extent of avoiding the same
mistakes a second time?
The World-Herald's Invitation to the
democrats who admire Grover Cleve
land to rally to the support of Bryan
takes the form of a cartoon depicting
the aged ex-president as a beggar hold
ing out his hat for alms. Watch the
rush to come In.
Colonel Bryan's Commoner is also
careful to note that the William J.
Bryan recently appointed United
States senator from Florida Is In no
way related to, William J. Bryan of
Nebraska. Wonder which one is afraid
of the other.
"The dayB are growing longer," says
the Atlanta Constitution. The days
will naturally seem longer In Georgia
for a time until they get used to that
new prohibition law.
"What does a newspaper man need
most?" asks Editor Watterson. An
Inkstand that will dodge when he tries
to stick the paste brush into it.
Artlvltle of Calorie Batteries.
Philadelphia Press.
After all, the fighting part of the navy
appears to have been left at home.
Breaking; Into ttood Society.
Philadelphia Record.
New Orleans has its Mardi Gras, St.
Louis Us yelled Prophet and Omaha Its
Ak-Sar-Ben, but Philadelphia has its own
beautiful Mummer and would not trade
with any of them.
Korky, Old Uo, There Are Other.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Chinese imperial telegraphs had net
earnings during of $fi5.537 on a word
ing capital of H.32,000. Evidently the
Standard Oy company isn't the only thing
on earth, after all.
Not Vet, hot Later.
Baltimore News.
Mr. Cleveland say he doesn't need it
himself, but he I decidedly of the opinion
that former presidents should be pensioned.
Surely the young and robust Mr. Roosevelt,
pedestrian, horseback espert, high Jumper,
boxer, wrestler and bear hunter, couldn't
think of relying on anything except hi
good right arm.
HMO9 ROILED DOW.
Every Sunday prayer waits for a Monday
amen.
Religion should be a good sword, but It
makes a poor shield.
The fruits of truth are not gathered by
beating about the bush.1
8ome think they are firm In the faith
who are only froien In heart.
If you are a true friend you never need
to put on an air of frtendllners.
An annual sprint In religion will not do
much good In the heavenly race.
It Is aa much our duty to brlphten an
other s way as to lighten his load.
A living exponent of the Bible Is worth
any number of the best expositors.
Many a church Is substituting working
the world for working for the world.
Idle admiration of the Master's teaching
is no better than utter rejection of It.
The world might soon be made good if
only religious peoplo would make good.
The strength of a man's will Is likely to
be in opposite proportion to that of his
breath.
It's no use praying for a clean city unless
you arc willing to do part of the house
keeping.
Many a man Is a hero In battle because
he has not shirked the dull drill In days
of peace.
The more a man uses the top of his head
the more careful he will be as to the use
of the front of It.
Lots of sorrow would be cured If w
would own It as the fruit of sin Instead
of charging It up to Providence. Chicago
Tribune.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
Petitioners for the release of ten bankers
from the Ohio penitentiary contend that
they deserve clemency because they never
fabricated a clearing house excuse for real
money.
An Indiana preacher who assailed the
morals of all dancers received a shower
of ancient eggs from the gallants of the
town. The color of the decoration matched
his vocabulary.
Oklahoma's legislative chaplain, whose
prayers call forth the applause of the
solotis, was unaccountably absent when a
thirsty mob dipped tubB of spilled beer
from beer-flooded gutter. That would
have been a great test of the efficacy of
prayer.
The Pittsburg woman who wedded "an
adorable count" In France promptly be
came insane on discovering that hubby
was a common scrub gardener, and is to
be brought home. A padded cell In Amer
ica has some advantage over such an ex
perience abroad.
Whatever doubt existed regarding the
versatility of Washington correspondents
is set at rest by their luminous descrip
tions of New Year gowns. Ability to lay
aside the burdens of statecraft for a day
and successfully grnpple with feminine
finery evidences heroic Intellectual quail
ties worthy of a Carnegie medal.
Philadelphia is dubbed "the red city."
It is proper to explain that the designs
tlon is due to the color of the brick, not
to the quality of the paint in common use.
For the time being the favorite song in
Georgia grips these words:
Hush, little bar room,
Don't you cry;
You'll be a drug store
By ' and by.
The Fremont Tribune's New Year boost
for Fremont and Dodge county is a spe
cific for pessimism and "that tired feel
ing." There are proud figures of progress
and prosperity buttressed with pictures ef
buildings reared during the year. Sand
wiched between and sometimes framing
the record of activities are business) an
nouncements which nails to the printer
man's face "the smile that won't come
off." The showing Is a splendid one for
a splendid Nebraska city, a mirror of Its
activities. Its enterprise and go-ahead
spirit. No great stretch of Imagination is
needed to see Ross Hammond waving aloft
this banner of progress and exclaiming
with the old darkey, "Praise de Lord,
growln' fatter an' fatter."
IVEW YEAR BlflNKSS CONDITIONS
Features Worthy of Note aad Their
Sign! Arance.
Philadelphia Press.
The new year begins bright with hope
and promise In works opening all over our
manufacturing states. In every line, tex
tiles, footwear, iron and steel and all the
rest, mills and factories are reopened.
Trusts In Iron and steel, rubber, wool,
copper and brass, leather, shoo machinery,
sugar, tobacco and many lesser trades
control 60 to 70 per cent of the output In
cotton, paper, car building, ccal, coke, ce
ment, lumber and scores of lesser indus
tries combinations and "understandings"
cover as large a share of the product.
Both trusts and combinations are detor
juyned to maintain a rices hv reducing
product. With a speed, tnoroughness,
"control" and "harmony" never before
known, without touching wages on the side
of labor, or Jobbing and retail prices on
the side of the consumer, output has been
summarily cut from a third to a half.
This has affected both factors In the
bounding business boom so suddenly and
swiftly knocked on the head In October.
These two factors In the boom were, flrBt,
the normal demand of SS.OOO.uOO most pros
perous people. The second factor was the
extra demand made by the expenditure
on behalf of new work, for which $1,393.
OOO.OoO of new securities were issued In 19o7
and still more In 1906.
Some 13,000,000.000 of new securities put
out in the last twenty-four months and the
proceeds spent on new woik give a good
deal of wages and the wages paid are spent
on commodities. Thl makes manufactures
hum, because this extra demand is added
to the normal demand. This extra demand,
due to new work, cannot return In months.
But the mere normal demand of s3.ono.fiuo
people. Industrious and sound, at peace
and producing Is enough to reopen a wide
range of mills hastily closed.
This does not, however, alter the one
clear fact that the country is on two-thirds
and three-quarters time. New England
cotton mills have now done systematically
what was first done by common consent,
and these mills, at the end of a year of the
largest quarterly dividends on record, are
paying out only three-quarters of their
usual aggregate of wages. This la equally
true in woolens, worsteds, silk and foot
wear. It la apparent In the metal trades.
Locomotive and car works have not, the
Railroad Gazette says, three-quarters of
the orders of a year ago. This is the
general report. While the last week of
Christmas trade was heavy, the total was
light, and heavy lines of goods are left
to be worked off. So also the banks, par
ticularly In New York, have a very con
siderable liquidation to carry out. The
advances made in the shape of clearing
house certificates are on securities on
which there must be a settlement finally.
Wciat Is about to take place and Is taking
place In lfcns Is a prompt revival of th
normal, regular demand of a nation of
83.000,000 of people. What will not come
for month, perhaps not until after th
presidential election. Is first, exanlon
based on new securities, and, second, the
free expenditure of the recent boom. Every
one Is saving, retrenching and economising.
A Sebllnt Trath.
8t. Iuia Globe-Democrat.
Senator Bailey has at last uttered a sub
lime truth. He dwlare that congress does
not understand tne financial question.
SKI' I' I, AR SHOT AT THB Pt'LPIT
Baltimore American: Dr. Aked, the pas
tor of Mr. Rockefeller's church, recently
raised $7,000 at one service. This pastor
has evidently taken some lessons from his
successful parishioner in the art of suc
cesnful financiering.
St. Louis Times: The good, old-fashioned
preacher who taught morals to hi flock
is being displaced by the state legislature
and the city policeman. Wo do not say
that these two are doing the good old min
ister' work, but present-day movements
Indicate that morals are to be injected by
statute, without regard to early training
and persistent fine example.
Portland Orcgonlan: If Imitation I tho
slncerest flattery, Mr. Eddy and her
friend will be pleased with the announce
ment that SL Paul's Reformed Episcopal
church will undertake "Christian Isy
chology" aa a cur for disorders due to
the action of the mind. The work of ad
ministering "to the bodies as well as the
ouls of the American people" has proven
so successful with the Christian Scientist
that competition In the field was Inev
itable. Kansas City Star: By the death of
Bishop Edward U. Andrews the public I
again reminded that the Methodist bishops
of the old school are rapidly passing away.
It Is easy enough to create new bishops
to fill the places of the veterans whose
ranks are so sadly decimated, but the fresh
recruits are, oh, so different, from, the
patriarchs of the church. This is not to
say that they are not good men and able
men and men well fitted to bear the high
honors of leadership. But 1 it unfair to
the modern dignitaries of the Methodist
church to ask whether they possess the
kindling coal and the potential spirituality
that animated men like Matthew Slmpaon
and Thomas Bowman and Thomas Asbury
Morris and Chaplain McCabe, and made
them flaming and conquering evangelists
In the cause of Wesley anism. Do the times
in which we live afford those peculiar con
ditions that fifty years ago moved the min
isters of Christ to "lay hold on the horns
of the altar" and to fully consecrate their
lives to a service that caused the "wilder
ness and the solitary places" to glow with
rtllglous fervor and hope?
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"You say your mistress Is not at
home?"
'No, mum."
"I wonder how she happens to be out
so early in the day?"
"I t'lnk, mum, she saw yes cotnln'."
Houston Post.
"No." said Mr. Hubbubs, "my husband
isn't at home. He'a out hunting, as
usual."
"You don't sayT exclaimed the caller,
"after something big?"
"It won't matter whether she's big or
little, so long as she can cook our meals
and do plain housekeeping." Phlladelpnla
Press.
"Then you really don't believe that a
man is ever too old to learn?"
"Certainly not. I've known men to get
married at the age of 76 or more."
Catholic Standard and Times.
The baby was learning to walk.
"B'ess its 'ittle heart!" exclaimed the
fond mother. "It waddles dess like Its big
fat papa, doesn't It?" Chlcagp Tribune.
Mistress Do you think that young po
liceman who calls here ao often means
business, Nora?
The Cook I think he do, mum. He's
begun to complain about my cooking al
ready. Los Angeles Times.
"He writes excellent nonsense verse?"
"Why. he told me all of his efforts were
serious.
"That's what makes them funny."
Cleveland Plain Dealer. ,
"Before we are married," she said, "I
want you to tell me everything you have
ever done."
"Oh, pshaw, darling." he replied. "I hope
you won't insist on that. Walt till ye
become a little more familiar with each
other. A man may tell his wife lots of
things that it would be improper for him
to apeak of to a young girl." .
Nan Yes, I like Reggie well enough,
but I don't like the way he wear hlx
beard.
Fan Why, he doesn't wear any Oh, I
see! It scratches, does it? Baltimore
American,
"Hello! ilello!" exclaimed Percy,
through the telephone. "Is that Miss
Peachreen?"
"Yes."
"At last! This is Percy Plum. Do you
know. Miss Peachreen. I have been try
ing for nearly an hour to get you?"
"La, me!" fluttered the voire at the
other end of the wire, "you shouldn't do
that over the telephone, Mr. Plum. Chi
cago Tribune.
OLD MELODIOl'S LAYS.
John T. Whlttler.
T love the old melodious lays
Which softly melt the ages through,
The songs of Spenser' golden day.
Arcadian Sldney'a silvery phrase,
Sprinkling our noon of time with freshest
morning dew.
Yet vainly In my quiet hours
To breathe their marvelou notes I try;
I feel them, as the leaves and flowers
In silence feel the dewy showers.
And drink with glad still lips the bless
Ing of the sky.
The rigor of a froien clime,
The harshness of an untaught ear,
The Jarrlngs word of one whose rhyme
Beats often Labor' hurried time.
Or Duty's rugged march through storm
and strire, are here.
Of mvstlc beauty, dreamy grace,
No rounded art the lack supplies;
Unskilled the subtle lines to (race.
Or softer shades of Nature's face.
I view her common forms with unan-
olnted eyes.
XTa .v. I . tha aa-r.KLA nnn-er to show
The secrets of the heart and mind;
To drop the piummei-nne nemw
A . . .,.,IH rt inv Mnrt tt'llf .
A more Intense despair of brighter hope
to una.
Vt hrro t b-ast an earnest sense
Of human right the weal Is shown;
A hate of tyranny intense,
An,t lu-nrtv In Its vehemence,
As if my brother's pain and sorrow were
my own.
n Freedom! If to me belong
Nor mighty Milton' gift divine
Nor Mai-vell s wii ana nri-nui wun.
atui u-tiii a love as d-t-Li and strong
As theirs, I lay. like them, my best gifts
on thy snrine:
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