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Evening and Punday Bee printed during
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lows
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2 37,150
37,379
36,840
!" 36,630
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jo'",! 36.580
fl' 36,350
J2' 36,300
gs!. 36,400
24 36,890
25 86,600
it'. 36,680
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28 36,360
29 35,800
80 38,110
II ' 36,610
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36,960
T 37,090
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9 36,930
10 37,030
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II 36,740
II 37,620
14 36,610
15 86,950
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WIIE.Y OUT OP TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tem
porarlly should have The Bee
mailed to them. Address Trill he
chanced as often as requested.
Another week and the ground hog
will give ua his annual weather fore
cast. The showing that Harry Thaw la
mad at his attorneys la not a proof of
insanity.
Japan might try cutting out sake
as a cure for the trouble It Is having
with lta Diet.
Senator "Jeff" Davis refuses to leave
Washington to go Into vaudeville.
This does not mean that he will keep
out of vaudeville.
''VNever loan money to a. friend," ad
vises John D. Rockefeller, Jr And he
probably would not advise you to loan
money to an enemy.
If they want to prove that Harry
Thaw Is insane, why don't they show
that he spends his spare time design
ing names for Pullman cars?
The fact that the American sailors
spent 1100,000 during their brief stay
at Rio Is proof that Rio is famous for
some product other than coffee.
A Washington correspondent says
that Mr. Beverldge 'is the handsomest
man in the senate. As Mr. Beverldge
admits It, there's no room for argu
ment. Some persons will not believe that
Governor Hughes is in earnest in his
presidential campaign until he prom
ises to shave off that J. Ham Lewis
beard.
That World-Herald cartoonist Is
overlooking -a pregnant subject in
Mayor "Jim's' Sioux City perform
ances,. Is it because Mayor "Jim" 1b
a democrat?
It may be discouraging to Mr. Shaw
and Mr. Cortelyou to be reminded that
no secretary of the treasury has eVer
been nominated for president of the
Vnlted States.
A prize of $2,600 is offered for an
English opera written by an English
man. ' It should be noted, also, that
the prize is offered by an Italian pub
lishing house. v
The suggestion that Henry Watter
son be elected to the United States sen
ate seems to be making a popular hit
with everybody except the members of
the Kentucky legislature.
Some more efficient method of keep
ing dishonest men from getting Into
the banking business would make un
necessary any action looking to the
guaranty of bank deposits.
Governor Hughes announces that he
will accept no presidential nomination
before it is tendered to him. Governor
Hughes is more conservative in that
respect than Colonel Brsn.
Perhaps It is Just as well to refrain
from any Jubilation over this open win
ter. March has been known to make
up all by itself for the shortcomings of
the three preceding months.
Colonel Bryan declares that person
alltles do not count in politics, but he
is vigorously insisting Just the same
that the democrats everywhere in
struct their delegates from the caucus
up as to which personality they want
selected at Denver to lead them to de
feat next falL
personalities do eoi'Ar.
In the address he delivered last week
to the democratic members of the Ken
tucky legislature William Jennings
Bryan among other things said:
f am afraid we sometimes make the mis
take of carrying personalities Into politics,
of saying that If wa cannot get the man
horn we want that we will not help get
the man whom the majority of the people
want; and If we are not willing to go so
far as to say that we must have our par
ticular choice, we will have some man
against whom we declaim and say we will
not have him.
If this Is Intended to mean that the
personality of the candidate presented
for the suffrages of the people should
not be considered and that a man
should votehls party ticket Irrespec
tive of the personality of any candi
date who has managed by hook or
crook to get a place on it, it is the most
pernicious and vicious doctrine. It Is
behind arguments such as this that
personalities do not count and that
after the ticket is made up it should'
be swallowed whole even If to do so
the voter has to shut his eyes and hold
his nose, that the yellow dog candi
dates on all party tickets are accus
tomed to hide. A good man may some
times redeem a bad platform, but a
dangerous man on a good platform is
nonetheless a bad man. If personali
ties do not count, there would never be
any chance to get away from rascality
and venality In public office once en
trenched in any party In control of a
substantial majority in any state or
district. '
If Mr. Bryan means simply that per
sonal preferences as to candidates,
conceding the candidates to be equally
honest and equally devoted to the pub
lic welfare, are of minor Importance
and should be easily adjusted, he states
simply a commonplace. But even on
this construction of his language, in
citing his own support of Judge Parker
four years ago' as an example? in point,
he is very unfortunate. If Mr. Bryan
believed what he said about Judge Par
ker before the latter's nomination, he
should have refused him his support.
Mr. Bryan declares now that, notwith
standing all his accusations charging
that Judge Parker was not in accord
with democratic principles,, he still
represented more of democracy than
any republican could represent and was
therefore to be preferred to any repub
lican. On the same theory, every re
publican voter would be expected to
prefer any republican to Mr. Bryan,
because representing more of republi
canism than any democrat could repre
sent. But as soon as he shall have re
ceived the democratic nomination, Mr.
Bryan will be out appealing for repub
lican votes on the strength of his own
personality.
It goes without saying, therefore,
that 'personalities do count among pub
lic men and that a strong personality
as party standard bearer is the first
pre-requlslte to success. 1
A REAL FRIEND OF LABOH.
Employers as well as employes muBt
regret the retirement of John Mitchell,
log president of the United Mine
Workers of America, from active direc
tion Of the affairs of that great trade
union. For nearly ten years he has
been at the helm of the organization,
the vital force in the management of
the interests, so far as they concern
the relations between employers and
employes, of about 265,000 men. In
the ranks of the affiliated miners' un
ions are thousands of men from for
eign countries, with ' ill-defined ideas
of American institutions and Amer
lean customs, and yet, under Pres
ldent Mitchell's wise leadership, the
miners' organization has become recog
nlzed as one of trfe thoughtful, con
servatlve and-law-abiding labor organ
izatlons of the country. This result
has been accomplished only by per
sonal exertion which has overtaxed his
physical strength and forced his re
tirement from the "presidency.
It is largely by reason of his clear
conception of the duties of bis position
and his determined adherence to a
well-defined policy that Mr. Mitchell's
achievement has been accomplished.
He has rejected proffers of political
preferment and resisted all tempts
tlons to use his position for personal
advancement. He has studied the in
terests of the worklngmen and refused
to be swayed by any extraneous
thought. He has been a student and
not a demagogue. He has scrupu
lously avoided making the. error that
marked the undoing of many who pre
ceded hlnfand has caused much injury
to the cause of honest labor of either
becoming an agitator or giving ear to
the counsels of that too large class
He has unquestionably done more than
any other one labor leader to bring
about a better understanding between
the men who work and the men who
pay for the work and-to establish
sane business basis for adjusting dif
ferences between, employer and em'
ploye.
A UlLUUN DIVORCES.
following a recommendation made
by President Roosevelt in a message to
the Fifty-ninth congress, the federal
census bureau has published a bulletin
dealing with the divorce record in this
country for the twenty years between
1887 and 1907. In that period 1,000,
000 divorces were granted and 600,000
divorce cases remained on the dockets
awaiting trial. In the twenty years
preceding 1887 but 828,000 divorces
were granted. The development of the
divorce industry has evidently more
than kept pace with the growth of the
nation.
It Is to be regretted that the censu
Inquiry deals only with numbers and
not with causes. Further Investigation
is being made which will furnish
Urge atnouut of additional ds,U bear
ing upon the question, Including the
causes of the divorces, the regulations
nd laws la different states and the de
fects of the existing judicial facilities
for adjustment of divorce problems
The mere fact that divorces are being
granted in this country at the rate of
00,000 a year Is sufficient to rivet
public attention and emphasize the de
mand for more uniform legislation. It
Is not probable that under constltu
tional limitations any national law can
be passed regulating marriage and dl
vorce.i but unquestionably much good
can be accomplished by state action
The chief fault of our divorce laws
Is the lack of uniformity. South Caro
lina recognizes no divorce, while Con
necticut grants a divorce for "any such
misconduct as destroys the happiness
of the petitioner." Considerable prog
ress has been made by the committee,
appointed at the Philadelphia confer
ence, to secure "uniform divorce laws
n the various states. The bill framed
by this committee does not greatly re
strict the grounds of divorce, but pro-
vldes a reasonable regulation that will
make divorce less easy. The chief fea
ture is that divorces granted in one
state shall be recognized in another
and that a divorce shall not be granted
a petitioner, married in another
state, except upon grounds recognized
as a cause for divorce in the state in
which the marriage was performed.
This proposed law Is a long step for
ward and its general adoption by the
states would go far toward remedying
existing divorce conditions which con-
stltute a scandal and a disgrace In too
many states
war on the arrsiES.
Omahans who have been accumu
lating information during the last week
on the ways, customs, habits and
strange beliefs of the gypsies, may be
Interested in a decree by Emperor Will-
lam ordering the gypsies to move out
of the German empire. It is estimated
that there are 70(5,000 of these people
in Europe, although some authorities
double that number. They form a con
siderable portion of the population In
Hungary and in the Balkans, while
thousands of them are scattered
throughout the world.
The German indictment against the
gypsies Is most severe. They are ac
cused of stealing, cheating, burning
forests, kidnaping children, defying the
laws of education and sanitation and
of being a general menace to the public
welfare. So far as proof goes, the
gypsies with which Omaha has formed
casual acquaintance might not be
held under some of these counts, but
unquestionably they manifest utter
defiance of the laws of sanitation and
admit that they pay no heed to the
laws of compulsory education.
So far as history shows, however,
the gypsies all belong to one class.
Their origin has never been clearly
established. One theory is that they
are the descendants of Ishmael, . but
their characteristics may go far in ex
plaining this theory. Wherever they
live temporarily, their habits, tradl
tlons, beliefs and language are prac
tlcally the same. They are Indifferent
to the usages of any country in which
they may sojourn and take binding
orders only from their own rulers
They are aliens everywhere, unwelcome
and uncompromising. In foreign coun
tries they have been used as spies, serv
Ing the highest bidder and accomplish'
lng wonderful results In that capacity,
trustworthy only In specific perform
ance of specific work for specific pay,
Laws have been passed against them
in moBt European countries, yet their
number shows no diminution and no
country has succeeded in keeping free
of them. It will be interesting to note
how much heed these chronic nomads
pay to Germany's notice to them to
move on.
WHITE SLAVERY IN THE SOV TIL
While nearly every state south of
Mason and Dixon's line has been mak
ing determined bids for immigration
and complaining because the workmen
from European countries still persist
in seeking homes and employment in
the weBt' and northwest, the federal
authorities have discovered a very ef
fectlve reason for their aversion of the
southern states. The State department
and the Department of Justice have de
cided to unite to investigate why the
peonage ' prosecutions in Mississippi,
Louisiana and other southern states
have completely broken down. . The
State department has been Induced to
participate in this inquiry by com
plaints of the Italian, Hungarian and
other European governments of mis
treatment of their subjects in southern
States. The Italian government
through its embassy at Washington
has served notice that it will warn its
citizens against locating In the south
unless there Is a prompt and effective
enforcement of the laws against
peonage. ,
The decision of the authorities has
been hastened by the refusal of the
grand Jury at Vlcksburg to return in
dictments against planters, on testl
mony furnished by federal officials.
The evidence shows that in several
southern states white laborers, Includ
lng immigrants from different eoun
tries, have been held in practical slav
ery under state laws that provide that
laborers who abandon work without
full repayment of all advances may be
fined, or imprisoned, or sentenced to
hard labor. Under this provision many
negroes and immigrants have been sen
tenced to convict gangs in the turpen
tine and lumber camps of the south
Federal laws prohibiting this form of
slavery have been Ignored and the state
authorities have apparently connived
at this method of exacting forced labor
The federal courts bare approved aen-
tences imposing fine and Imprisonment
upon some of the planters, in several
southern states, convicted of peonage.
ut the effect of the federal prosecu
tions has been lost by the refusal of
grand Juries to find further indictments
gainst other violators of the law.
The south Is admittedly In pressing
need of labor. The demand tor Italian
workmen has been great and Italian
colonies have been established in sev
eral southern states. There was prom
ise that this method of supplying the
south's demand for labor would be
most satisfactory to the planters and,
t the same time, aid in relieving the
congested tenement districts In the
larger cities. The refusal of the south
ern authorities to afford proper protec
tion to labor, however, threatens to
upset all these plans for betterment of
the south.
TRAINING MEN TOR WALL STREET.
Conflicting reports continue con
cerning the possible resignation of
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou
and cf his probable acceptance of a
position at the head of one of the big
financial institutions of New York. Mr.
Cortelyou may remain- in President
Roosevelt's cabinet, but it is accepted
s a certainty that he can become Iden
tified with one of the many financial
Interests of Wall street whenever he
may desire to do so; While the coun
try may spend more or less valuable
time discussing what shall be done
with ex-presldents of the nation, there
is no longer any worry over the future
of ex-secretarles of the treasury. They
go to New York and Into the banking
business.
It nas not been explained why men
who have served as secretary of the
treasury are In such great demand by
the financial institutions of Wall
street, but the fact remains that they,
are. Secretary Wlndom went from
the Treasury department to the head
of a big financial institution In New
York. Secretary Falrchild became
president of the New York. Security
and Trust company. Secretary Gage
became president of a national bank of
New York. Assistant Secretary Alles
Is vice president of the Riggs National
bonk of Washington, representing New
York interests. Frank Vanderlip went
from the Treasury department to the
City National bank of New York.
James H. Eckels went from the Treas
ury department to the presidency of a
Chicago national bank and Charles G.
Dawes followed him. Leslie M. Shaw
left the treasury portfolio to become
head of the Carnegie Trust company
of New York and George E. Roberts,
director of the mint, resigned to be
come president of a Chicago national
bank. Robert B. Armstrong, private
secretary to Secretary Shaw, became
the head of a big financial concern in
Philadelphia and now big trust com
panies in New York are bidding for
the services of Secretary Cortelyou and
Comptroller Rldgeley. '
The Treasury department of the
United States is a great training school
for bank ani trust company presidents.
ANESTHETICS IN Wa RFARE.
The first impulse is to laugh at the
invention of a sure method of making
future wars bloodless and harmless.
However, scientists have been laughed
at for ages, only finally to turn the
laugh on the scoffers, so it is better
perhaps to just wait and see what will
come of the new invention.
The plan of this Massachusetts in
ventor la to dope the enemy1 and put
him to sleep. He has invented a sub
marine that throws a shell filled with
a nonexpjosive and sleep-producing
drug. All that is necessary is to slip
up on the battleship of an enemy, hoist
one of these shells aboard the craft
and then wait a few minutes until off!
cers and crew fall helpless into the
arms of Morpheus. When tho men
wake up they find themselves prisoners
unable to continue the fight.
Convincing experiments have not yet
been tried with this new. Instrument of
war. but It looks good in theory. Its
adoption would do away with the Red
Cross volunteers and the Hospital
corps. It would save an immense
amount of money now spent for guns
and ammunition and would almost
make the pension list obsolete. It
would be necessary only, in order to
win battles on land and sea, to have a
larger and better supply of sleep-producing
dope thin our enemies. It
would mean that our arsenals would
be replaced by chemical laboratories
and that medicine mixers would head
our army and navy for keeps. The pill
box would supplant the ammunition
caisson and the dope-throwing syringe
would take the place of the cannon.
A battlefield would no longer be a
scene of carnage, but would more
closely resemble an opium den under
police protection.
If the invention works all right In
war, there Is no reason why it should
not be put to other uses to end all con
troversies and stop strife between in
dividuals. The speaker of the house
might have one of these new machines
for emergencies and stop such conflicts
as that recently pulled off by Williams
and De Armond. Chairmen of, conven
tions might arm themselves with sleep
producers to be used on voluble inter
lopers who insist upon talking at the
wrong time. The police might carry
them instead of clubs. There is no
limit to the possibilities of such an in
vention. The list of reform measures adopted
in pursuance of recommendations by
Qovernor Johnson of Minnesota is be
ing paraded as the foundation for the
demand that be be made the demo
cratic presidential nominee. This list
Is no more formidable and no mora Inl
portant than the list of reform meas
ures adopted In pursuance of recom
mendations made by Governor Sheldon
of Nebraska. The product of the last
Nebraska legislature in Jhls state
which went on the statute books over
the signature of Governor 8heldon will
compare favorably with that of any
other state that has made any progress
In the direction of reform.
Senator Penrose has Introduced a
bill asking congress to Investigate and
determine "the hammer blow, centrif
ugal lift and tangential throw of the
counterbalance In a locomotive." That
Is something like it. Why should con
gress spend money on navies, public
buildings, waterways and such foolish
things while the people are starving
for the information called for by Sena
tor Penrose?
The use of absinthe In France Is said
to be Increasing. Those Paris editors
who have been predicting war between
Japan and the United States and send
ing anarchists to blow ua the Amer
ican fleet must be victims of the ab
sinthe habit.
A St. Louis broker gave his seat In
a street car to a woman . and later
found a $5 bill left at his home as a
reward ,f or the act. Common courtesy
pays in St. Louis as elsewhere, and
sometimes there is a little premium on
preferred stock.
The most Inspiring feature of the
preliminary presidential campaign Is
the "unswerving tenacity with which
the editor of Harper's Weekly sticks to
Woodrow Wilson for the democratic
nomination.
Smuggled goods have been found In
he home of Theodore Shonts. The
offense Is not serious, as Papa Shonts
has already paid more duty on a
French duke for his daughter than he
can ever get back.
It is a 10 to 1 shot that 99 people
out of every 100 In Nebraska could not
give the name of the United States col
lector of internal revenue for this dis
trict who drew the salary prior to the
present incumbent.
Editor Watterson says Bryan will
be elected president If there Is a crop
failure and a financial panic this sum
mer. "Marse" Henry evidently be
lieves in that old superstition that
calamities go by threes. ,
It will not be necessary for the an
archists to carry out their plot to blow
up Admiral Evans fleet. According
to reliable reports the sailors are hav
ing a high old time without resorting
to the use of dynamltel
Nebraska will have a corn show out
in the fields all summer and then after
the crop Is harvested the best of the
product will be put on exhibition at
the National Corn show at Omaha,
Keeping; the Wires Hot.
Philadelphia Lodger. ,"
Paris seems to take Just as much interest
In the destruction of the United States fleet
as it did in the vivid accounts of the way
the Spanish had demolished it a few iears
ago.
A Clean Sweep.
Chicago Tribune.
A careful survey of the political field
warrants us In saying that Mr. Fair
banks Is practically sure of the whole
country except that part of it outside
the boundaries of Indiana.
Pood for Thought.
Chicago Tribune.
There is food for thought in the succinct
statement credited to one of the visitors
to the conference on Industrial education
In the United States: "Germany trains
its youth for a vocation; the United States
trains its youth for a Job." In such words
the suggestion Is made that the Industrial
supremacy of our country may be threat
ened by another nation which is looking
further ahead In the race for the desired
goal.
Congress
and Currency Legislation
Cincinnati Enquirer
Of the many currency bills introduced
In congress only one Is receiving any
attention, and that Is having "hard sled
ding." It Is not improbable that con
gress will toil to tho top of the hill,
and then Incontinently slide down to the
Vock bottom of natural management of
the money. Hardly anything that con
gress can do will prevent a hoarding of
the currency by the pawnbrokers' monop
oly, and we have a good deal of that
now.
A DIVIDED DECISION.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
and
Twn-Ont Fare Law.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The "decision of the Pennsylvania su
preme court on the 2-cent fare law Is on
Hp face a defeat for the law, which Is de
clared unconstitutional. But. especially
since the result was by no means unfor
seen, the festures accompanying the divi
sion go far to recompense for the defeat
by Indicating that power for a rational and
effective regulation of railroad practices
and rhnrges is not overruled.
The lesser of these Indications is the fact
that the decision in a four-to-three ruling.
Even though Justice Potter's dissent is
apparently confined to the single method
of computing sinenses and profits the fact
that the Pennsylvania, supreme court di
vides so closely on the case as presented
Is an Indication that the fancied security
of Pennsylvania corporations against regu
lation does not stand on a solid foundation.
But the warning Is even more strongly In
timated In the majority opinion Itself on
the claim that tbe charter of the I'ennsyt
vanla railroad grants It the right to make
its own rates without reserving any legis
lative power. On this point the highest
courts of other states and the United States
supreme court have laid down the princi
ple thst the regulation of franchise
granted for public use Is not only a legis
lative right but a duty, and that no legis
lature can bind future legislatures not to
perform thst duty. The majority of the
Pennsylvania court do not adopt that doc
trine, as Justices Slestr-rst and Stewart
In the dtksrntlng opinion, liut they un
earth an act passed on ths ssme day with
the Pennsylvania railroad charter, and as
a supplement to It, reserving to the legis
lature the power of additional enautmentt
In furtherance of tbe same objects, and
dismiss this point with the ststement that
the freedom ef the appellant from legisla
tive reguiaUoa Is an open quskt'on.
RERMOIS BOILED POW.l
Lovo always wins, because It Is not afraid
to lose.
The divine law Is but the language of
divine love.
The only people who count are those who
Can be counted on.
.The door of truth cannot be opened with
the key of prejudice. '
Too many find their consciences In too
conventions of others.
Where the wago determines the work, the
work Is never worth It.
Men will be honest with one another when
they are honest with themselves.
The piety you put on before the mirror
will not make you a mirror of piety.
Failure Is duo not so much to missing
opportunities as to the failure to ma:co them.
There Is something wrong in a man when
his religion is the poorest thing about him.
Tour message will go Just as deep Into
the hearts of men as It has roots In your
own.
Lots of people would lose all hopes of
society but for the periods of solf-apprecla-tlon.
We aro all apt to substitute candor with
the faults of others for honesty with our
own.
The road through a difficulty may be
rougher, but It Is always safer than the
road around It.
If you will walk in the fluids of sin you
will find a long task before you picking off
the burrs and cockles. Chicago Tribune.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
Don't holler. Winter has a kick coming.
All that Is needed to give a springlike
touch to things hereabouts la a display of
real strawberries.
By a new law New York women are for
bidden to smoke In public places. Thus '1s
man's monopoly of smoked hams affirmed.
The Carl Schurs memorial fund amounts
to $S4,000. ' New York managers expect to
raise the required 100,W0 bby the end of
March.
For a quarter of a century Philadelphia
has talked of putting an end to overhead
wires. Meantime, overhead wires have
multiplied In every direction.
If peach trees could be induced to bear
riow, tliis favored clime would huvo some
thing to match the complexion of tho
weather.
The qualified promise of soon ending
American administration of Cuban affairs
will tax the patience of natives to the
breaking point. Fifteen millions in the
treasury and so indefinitely beyond the
reach pf patriots,
A Pittsburg woman, appreciating the
value of time these hustling days, skipped
from her home before her husband's body
was buried, took all the family cash, and
was last heard from in a distant town
negotiating for a new partner.
While agitators are striving to foment
strife among the unemployed In Chicago,
notices are printed In local papers offering
food and lodgings for three days In ex
change for one day's work. The offer
hasn't provoked a bargain ruth.
A discovery by a biblical scholar lifts a
load of obloquy from the shoulders of the
sons of Adam. David's declaration that
"all men are liars" Is proven to have been
made In the heat of debate, and the apology
was unable to catch up with the record.
A New York Judge who had dealings
with tendrrloln Blnners tipped a reporter
with $250 to forget a raw sample of ju
dicial procedure. The Judge's dignity was
much ruffled next morning on finding the
tip featured on the front page with photo
graphs of the money.
A New Hampshire woman demands $50,000
damages from a New York woman for
alienating her husband's affections. A tel
ephone message caused the trouble. The
aggrieved wife says she heard this remark
able message to her husband: "Don't you
want to come over and fan me, dear? Tho
only clothes I have on are my earrings and
necklace." Accounts of what the husband
did are provokingly meagre, leaving Imag
ination to riot at will. Hut the bereaved
wife is modest In her demands, when you
measure the shock of the message. ;
"THE BANKER POET."
Activities and Achievements of Ed
mund Clarence Stednian.
New York Commercial.
It was forty-four years ago that Edmund
Clarence Ptedman, poet, editor, essayist
and critic and already of high repunttlnn
in all these fields of literary effort, pur
chased a seat in the New York Stock ex
change; it was almost forty years ago, and
after he had become widely known ns "the
banker-poet" that he published his "Pan
In Wall Street" perhaps the most quoted
among his productions; and It was not until
1900, .after thirty-six years of a twofold
activity the most unique In the history of
literature and finance In each of which
fields of production he had achieved con
spicuous success that he disposed of bis
seat in the exchange and formally retired
from the street. And yet he was not an
old man as we reckon years In these times
only Just turned 4 when death claimed
him In the harness near the close of last
Saturday; claimed him, too. Just as he
would himself have chosen, without illness
or warning or sign of the end h approach.
In his "Mors Beneflcd" he had prayed:
Give me to die unwitting of. the day.
And stricken in life s brave neai. won
senses clear;
Not swathed and couched until the lines
Of Death s' wan mask upon the withering
Put as" That Old Man eloquent made w'y
From earth, a nations conclave hushed
ft rii) ft I
Or as the chief whoso fates, that he may
hoar '
The victory, one glorious moment stay.
Or. if not thus, then wlih no crv In vain.
No ii.lnlsirant besl.ie to wall and w'P.
Hand upon helm I would my quittance
In some0 wild turmoil of the waters deep.
And sink content Into a dreamless sleep
(Spared grave and sliroudl below the an
cient nisin.
Stedman was at work on his "reminisc
ences" when death overtook him the
prayer of the poet answered.
Information Due the Customer
Which lie Fo 3 Not Always Get
In every city there Is but one store where the Apollo and Apollo
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When a customer enters any of the other ktores and Inquires:
"Do you keep the Apollo?" the salesman Is In honor bound to reply,
"No, we do not." Of course there Is no law to prevent bis adding:
"We keep the piano player, which we claim Is Just as
good," etc. Consequently we are compelled to advertise this over
and over again.
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Dally recitals are given on this marvelous instrument
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SECILAH SHOTS AT THE TILPIT.
Brooklyn Eagle: When the South Pea
Islander said to the missionary: "I will call
and dine upon you tomorrow," the mission
ary realised that he was bound to be con
verted. Boston Transcript: The alarm of the New
York rabbi over tho tendency of his people
to becomo Infected with the American love
of money-making is well, grounded. We
had noticed It ourselves.
Philadelphia Record: A Prof. Morgan pro
poses to banish the tall hats from places
of worship as well as from the theaters.
What! Does he Intend In this way to de.
populate somo of the most fnshlonsble
churches?
Baltimore American: A Chicago mlnlstet
now comes forward with advlco upon the
proper time to propose. Tho question Is
not one requiring much discussion. If he
Is tho right man, any tlmo will do, and 1C
he Isn't, any time Is wrong. A favorable
answer depends entirely upon the man; the
tlmo Is immaterial.
Springfield Republican: ''The church ot
the future will be an eccleslastlcul depart
ment store," observed Rev. Dr. John U
Sciidder of Jersey City In an address betoro
the Fifth Avenue Baptist church in New
York. "It will supply practically all tho
needs of man." The comparison Is lacking
In uplift, for a department store, even if It
were "ecclesiastical," would leave out tho
spiritual needs of man. However, that Is
largely done In ordinary churches without
tho institutional attachments which belong
to Dr. Shudder's church, the Jersey Cl'y
First Congregational, which runs the Peo
plo's palace, with bowling alleys, billiards,
dances, card parties the last being the
furthest, extension of amusement under
church auspices since the consecrated sa
loon failed.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES.
"Ho Is very extravagant and his wits
encourages Ids extravagance."
"That's slrange.'' ,
"Not very; you see, he Is extravagant lit
his praise of her cooking." Houston Post.
Annum T)n vnn men n In mv thev haven't
got a parlor to their house?
Kidder That s Just what I sniu.
Ascum You must be mistaken. I'm told
they're becoming quite wealthy. J
Kidder That's Just It; they call their
parlor a "salon" now. Philadelphia Press.
"Dora, would you be willing to marry a
young man who has to make his own way
in the world and who has nothing but his
love for you to recommend him?''
"Certainly, Gerhld, If I cored enough for
him, but at present I don't know of any
such young man. Frosty weather isn't it?'
Chicago Tribune.
" She said you penciled your eyebrows,
rouged your cheeks and laced terribly,'
said ono woman.
"Yes," sobbed tho other. "The Idea of
accusing me of being such a nature
faker!" Chicago Record-Herald.
"DIs hobo life is tough, Bill. I ast fur
bread and would have got a stone, only de
leddy couldn't trow straight."
"I ast fur a piece ot pio onct and got a
lot o' stones."
"Your check made do leddy mad, I
s'pose."
"No, but it was cherry pio she give mo.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Mamma You don't know anythlngl
Daughter No?
Mamma You can't cook nor sew.
Daughter No, alasl
Mamma You can't talk, play the piano,
recite, write, make yourself agreeable in
society, dance, sing or smoke cigarettes.
Daughter No, 1 know nothing of theee
things.
Mamma Then what are you going to do
with yourself?
Daughter I I guess I'll Just have to got
married! Cleveland Leader.
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.
By William Winter. '
(Recited at Reception by Authors' Club,
New York City, December 6,
Comrade and frlendl what tribute shall
I render?
Roses and lilies bloom no more for me.
And naught remains of Fancy's squandered
splendor
Save marlsh flowers that frlngo the
sombre sea.
But were each word a rose, each thought a
blessing.
Each prayer a coronal of gems divine,
Honor ami love and perfect trust con
fessing, My words, my thoughts, my prayers
should all be thine.
For thou hast kept the faith; thy Soul un
daunted, Whatever storms might round thee rage
and roll.
By one celestial passion still enchanted,
Has held lis course right onward to Its
goal.
No sordid aim. no worldly greed, beguiling.
Could ever wile thy constant heart astray J
No vine-clad, Circean, Cyprian Muses,
smiling,
Allure thy footsteps down the primrose
way.
Thou hast not basely gathered thrift with ,
fawning,
Nor worn a laurel that thou hast not won;
But, In thy senlth hour as In thy dawning,
The gnocMhy nature willed thy hand has
done. '
On thy calm front the waves of trouble,
broken.
Have backward surged and left th'ee
regnant still;
Nor tempests of the soul nor griefs un
spoken Have e'er batl power to shake thy stead
fast will.
Thy glory cannot die for. were thy, singing
E'en once to falter, through the domes of
fame.
In one (treat organ burst, superbly ringing.
The whole poetU; choir would chant thy
name.
It will not falter; from the heart o'er
fluw lng.
With the glad freedom of the. wild-bird's
wltlK.
Where lev gules o'er sunlit seas are
blowing.
It sings because divinely born to sing.
No stain Is on thy banner; grandly stream
ing, i
Its dlnmnnd whiteness leads the tuneful
host.
Forever in the front of honor heamtng.
And lliev that know thee best must love
thee most.
So rest: thy rcRal throne thou hast as
cended ;
The standards blase, the golden trunfpets
rinr.
And in one voice our loyal hearts are
blended
Ood Mi- the ret, and God save the
King!
